Lead Software Engineer, Operator Technology Solutions

Chick-fil-A, Inc.

2.7

(13)

Atlanta, GA

Why you should apply for a job to Chick-fil-A, Inc.:

  • 54% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
  • 58% say the CEO supports gender diversity
  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.

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    Position summary

    a to provide actionable insights to users via a modern web interface.

    Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and virtually, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.

    Responsibilities

    • Own the solution architecture decisions for your team's product

    • Lead delivery and operations of the team's product, including both individual contribution and support as well as delegated tasks and support to your team's engineers. We desire our lead engineers to be both leads and engineers, spending about half of their time on leading others and half contributing engineering work themselves.

    • Lead, mentor, and assess other staff engineers, exemplifying and teaching best practices, helping to solve knotty problems, reviewing code, and sharing stories

    • Interview, select, onboard, and oversee contract engineers

    • Guide engineering team in adoption of Chick-fil-A software engineering standards

    • Identify & propose emerging software engineering technologies, methodologies and/or approaches

    • Delegate engineering assignments & assess engineering performance

    • Help provide support for the portfolio of solutions the team owns

    • Understand specific business processes and requirements and translate them to software functional requirements

    Note - Working in a DevOps model, this opportunity includes both building and running solutions that could require off hours support. This support is sharedamongst the team members to coverweekends and weeknights. The goal is to design for failure and, using cloud-native infrastructure patterns, automate responses to possible issues so they can be worked during normal hours.

    Minimum Qualifications

    • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

    • 3+ years of relevant work experience

    • Experience designing complex software solutions

    • Expert-level knowledge indesign and programmingusing Java, JavaScript, or Python or other comparable languages

    • Experience with relational and non-relational databases

    • Experience mentoring and leading a team

    • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

    • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

    • Familiarity with Agile principles as applied to software development

    • Experience developing and deploying applications via cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)

    • Proven ability to positively influence the engineering culture and practices in a professional environment

    Preferred Qualifications

    • Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field

    • 5+ years of relevant work experience

    • Experience with test-driven development, continuous integration and deployment, Agile development methodology, or comparable software development practices

    • Experience developing and delivering micro frontends

    • Familiarity using automated testing tools for web development

    • Deep understanding of AWS architecture

    • Experience with React Native mobile application delivery

    • Familiarity with version control systems and code merging/branching; specific experience with git desirable

    • Experience in technical database design, data collection, and data analysis

    Minimum Years of Experience

    3

    Travel Requirements

    10%

    Required Level of Education

    Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

    Preferred Level of Education

    Bachelor's Degree

    Relocation Assistance Provided

    No

    Why you should apply for a job to Chick-fil-A, Inc.:

  • 54% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
  • 58% say the CEO supports gender diversity
  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.