Hybrid Lead Software Engineer: AI, Cloud & Impact

Chick-fil-A Plainfield, Indiana; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Chick-fil-A is seeking a product engineer to lead and contribute to the design, delivery, and operation of cross-functional software that supports Operators and the Company. You will influence architecture, mentor engineers, and drive standards across teams.

The role blends hands-on coding with leadership, in a DevOps environment, supporting weekend and night coverage as needed to ensure reliable services and customer value.

Qualifications

• Broad and deep programming experience in Java, JavaScript, Python, Go, or other comparable languages.
• Passion for software engineering and for AI assisted SDLC
• 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

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.

Skills

Java

JavaScript

Python

Go

AI-assisted SDLC

Software architecture

Infrastructure as Code

Mentoring

SQL

Data modeling

Git

Security & SDLC patterns

Engineering culture

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

AWS

Docker/Kubernetes

Git

Kafka / Amazon SQS

Job description

Chick-fil-A is seeking a product engineer to lead and contribute to the design, delivery, and operation of cross-functional software that supports Operators and the Company. You will influence architecture, mentor engineers, and drive standards across teams.

The role blends hands-on coding with leadership, in a DevOps environment, supporting weekend and night coverage as needed to ensure reliable services and customer value.