Overview

Chick-fil-A is looking for aLead Software Engineer - Cloud Platform and DevOpsto join the Digital Transformation and Technology (DTT) Organization supporting the our Customer Technology Solutions (CTS) team. In this role you will lead the charge in building an internet-scale commerce platform that will support billions in annual sales while helping propel Chick-fil-A to be a global brand.

We are looking for an experienced software engineer who enjoys solving a wide range of cross-cutting technology challenges while building platforms that can sustain tremendous growth from our business. In this role you’ll serve as a leader, problem solver, mentor, and expert cloud platform engineer. We need you to apply the technical experience you have gained to the design, development, and delivery of a highly engineered and capable cloud commerce platform to run our revenue critical APIs.

Our cloud platform provides microservices used by our Chick-fil-A Mobile application and Chick-fil-A.com digital experiences. These order channels have experienced tremendous growth in the last several years and now represent a significant portion of Chick-fil-A's overall sales.

Come help us build a world class platform that powers the promise of our brand through digital channels.

Our Fle xible 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

• Provide technical knowledge and leadership for our CTS Engineering Leads in technologies like AWS, Kubernetes, security, and microservices

• Develop and own shared components across our entire commerce platform, including core Java and Go libraries

• Build software delivery capabilities that will allow continuous delivery with low friction and risk

• Define and build solutions that are aligned with enterprise architecture principles

• Collaborate heavily with Enterprise Architecture, CyberSecurity, Site Reliability Engineering, Digital Commerce Engineering Leads, and our Engineering Steering Group within CTS

• Onboard and oversee contract engineers in partner-led engineering workstreams, contributing to solution design and reviews of deliverables

• Contribute to the CTS engineering principles and standards

• Identifying & propose emerging software engineering technologies, methodologies and/or approaches that will address gaps in our CTS portfolio

• Lead adoption of those technologies across the CTS engineering teams

• Optimize our systems for security, performance, and cost

  Note - Working in a DevOps model, this opportunity includes both building and running solutions that could require off hours support. This support is shared among 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

• Some knowledge in AWS or cloud native infrastructure

• Strong software development experience in Java, Go, Python, or other comparable languages

• Experience using, configuring and/or deploying Kubernetes

• Proficiency with microservices, API design and implementation patterns

• Experience with source control systems like Git

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

• Experience mentoring and/or leading a team

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in AWS or cloud native infrastructure

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

• Good interpersonal and team collaboration skills

• Experience working with software product development

• Experience building, monitoring, and supporting internet scale platforms for commerce applications

• Demonstrated passion for the Developer experience

• Deep understanding of AWS architecture

• Experience with Java Spring Boot applications

• Experience with Infrastructure As Code using Cloudformation or CDK

• Experience with Github Actions

• Experience with API management in a large scale, highly distributed environment

• AWS related certifications

Minimum Years of Experience

5

Travel Requirements

10%

Required Level of Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Preferred Level of Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job FunctionInformation Technology

Position TypeExperienced Professionals

Requisition ID2023-16071

Posting Location : LocationUS-GA-Atlanta