Senior Lead Software Engineer

Chick-fil-A

2.7

(13)

Atlanta, GA

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

  • 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

    ing both individual contribution and support as well as delegated tasks and support to your teams' 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 other engineers

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

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

    Specifically do the above as it relates to Chick-fil-A's Restaurant Financial Services systems which are used by the Financial Services team to manage restaurant accounting and cash management across the Chick-fil-A chain and to provide accurate and timely financial data to accountants and staff.

    • This role will also help lead the transformation of current processes to be more scalable, using automation, analytics, and modeling to help drive progress in efficiency.

    Note - Working in a DevOps model, this opportunity includes both building and running solutions that could require off-hours support. This support is shared amongst the team members to cover weekends and weeknights.

    Minimum Qualifications

    • Bachelor's Degree or the equivalent combination of education, training and experience from which comparable skills can be acquired

    • 4+ years of experience in software engineering

    • 3+ years of experience in the technical oversight of software engineering teams

    • Demonstrated leadership skills and experience.

    • Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing.

    • Strong organizational skills, including an ability to perform under pressure and manage multiple priorities with competing demands for resources.

    • Experience designing complex software solutions

    • Experience mentoring and leading a team, including good interpersonal and team collaboration skills

    • Broad and deep programming experience in Java, JavaScript, Python, Go, or other comparable languages

    • Experience with SQL and data modeling

    • Experience with source control systems like Git

    • Experience implementing application security, software design patterns, and the SDLC

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

    • Experience with TDD, CI/CD, agile, Kanban, or similar software development practices

    • Experience with Unix/Linux

    Preferred Qualifications

    • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering

    • 7+ years of experience in software engineering

    • 5+ years of experience in the technical oversight of software engineering software engineering teams

    • AWS Solutions Architecture Certification(s)

    Minimum Years of Experience

    4

    Travel Requirements

    10%

    Required Level of Education

    Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

    Preferred Level of Education

    Bachelor's Degree

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

  • 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.