Senior Lead Software Engineer

the maintenance, monitoring, deployment, and secure and reliable operation of new and existing applications. Your contributions will build upon established frameworks, extend frameworks to support new functionality, and help define new frameworks and standards for the team to build upon.

The ideal candidate is an experienced software engineer. The candidate should have an innate curiosity to dive deep and learn, sharing those data driven learnings with other engineers. The ideal candidate is an experienced software engineer ready and enthusiastic to mentor, work collaboratively, and elevate other engineering team members. The candidate should have an innate curiosity to dive deep and learn, sharing those data driven learnings with other engineers.

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

Responsibilities

• Influence solution architecture decisions for your teams

• 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

• Assist in interviewing and onboarding of other engineers

• Assist in the design and delivery of products outside of your team, develop tools and processes for use outside of your team, and/or mentor other engineers (especially lead engineers) outside of your team

• Guide partner-led engineering workstreams, contributing to solution design and code reviews

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

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

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

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

• Experience designing complex software solutions

• Experience working with Infrastructure as Code

• Experience mentoring, including good interpersonal and team collaboration skills

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

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

• Experience developing and delivering microservices using Kubernetes and docker

• Deep understanding of AWS architecture

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

• Experience working with an agile development methodology featuring sprints, points estimation, and daily standups

• Experience with Kafka, Amazon SQS, or similar

Minimum Years of Experience

5

Travel Requirements

20%

Required Level of Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Preferred Level of Education

Bachelor's Degree

Major/Concentration

Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field