Lead Software Engineer

Overview:

Lead Software Engineer, Supply Chain Forecasting

If you’ve been to your local Chick-fil-A during peak times, you have likely encountered a line of cars wrapped around the building. While our excellent team members keep these drive-thru lines moving quickly, they highlight the uniquely high volume of customers that Chick-Fil-A restaurants serve daily.

The growing volume of traffic through our restaurants has created unique supply chain challenges that necessitate a best-in-class sales forecasting platform driving supply and demand across our entire supply chain, from the henhouse to the drive-thru. The Lead Software Engineer, Supply Chain Forecasting leads the way this critical sales data is shared with the enterprise to include labor, Supply Chain, and IoT use cases. This enables our restaurant operators to project their inventory, sales, and other key business metrics.

This role will live in our Digital Transformation and Technology (DTT) department and work closely with an Agile team including other software engineers, product owners, scrum masters, systems analysts, quality engineers and site reliability engineers. This role requires proficiency in the Java programming language, including core concepts, object-oriented programming, and design patterns as well as knowledge of React and micro-frontend architecture.

As Lead Software Engineer, Supply Chain Forecasting, you will work to deliver the design, architecture, and implementation of industry-leading software that directly improves the business efficiencies of Operators and their team members.

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 solution architecture decisions for the 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

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 or 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 shared amongst the team members to cover weekends 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:

Experience designing complex software solutions

Expert-level knowledge in design and programming using Java, JavaScript, or Python or other comparable languages

Knowledge of React and micro-frontend architecture

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:

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

Experience developing and delivering microservices

Familiarity using test-driven development frameworks or automated testing tools for mobile development

Deep understanding of AWS architecture

Experience with the native mobile application delivery

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 in design, data collection, and data analysis

Minimum Years of Experience:

5

Travel Requirements:

10%

Required Level of Education:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Preferred Level of Education:

Bachelors Degree

Major/Concentration:

Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field

Permanent