Lead Software Engineer

In the Chick-fil-A Lead Software Engineer role you’ll serve as a team leader, problem solver, mentor, and expert software engineer. We need you to apply the technical experience you have gained in software development to the design, development, and delivery of highly engineered, complex technical products, serving to both oversee your team and contribute as a member. You will not be responsible for HR management of your team, though - you’ll rather be able to focus on the technical aspects of your team’s growth and delivery.

You will be responsible for critical enterprise APIs (Java/Spring) that power hundreds of applications across Chick-fil-A by providing information about our Chick-fil-A restaurants. In addition, you will be responsible for a number of integrations that are used by Chick-fil-A to make sure we are able to be transparent in our interactions with customers and responsive to their needs.

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.

• Own solution architecture decisions for the team’s products
• Coordinate with Technical Product Owners to understand what needs to be built and break requirements down into technical stories on which your team can execute
• Lead delivery and operations of the team’s products, 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, and reviewing code
• 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

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.

• 5+ 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, Python, or other comparable languages
• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining REST APIs, integrations, and/or business-oriented workflows
• Experience with SQL, NoSQL, 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

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering
• 5+ years of experience in the technical oversight of software engineering teams
• AWS Solutions Architecture Certification(s)