Principal Engineer, Store & Digital Systems

Papa John's USA, Inc.; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Papa John's is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead a product team, drive software design, development, and the full product lifecycle that delights customers. You will mentor junior engineers, collaborate with multiple product teams, and engage with vendors and open-source communities to build reusable foundations.

You will advance modern software design, deliver prototypes, and contribute to architecture that supports security reviews and production reliability.

Qualifications

• Leads a product team and contributes to software design and lifecycle.
• Collaborates across product teams and with third parties/open-source community.

Responsibilities

• Build rapid prototypes aligned with product strategy and scale when approved.
• Identify reusable technical solutions and document architecture for security reviews.
• Define service level objectives and monitor production reliability.
• Write code/scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring, and tests.
• Provide production support and triage high-priority issues and outages.

Skills

Leadership

Software design

Cross-functional collaboration

Prototyping

Automation

Job description

Papa John's is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead a product team, drive software design, development, and the full product lifecycle that delights customers. You will mentor junior engineers, collaborate with multiple product teams, and engage with vendors and open-source communities to build reusable foundations.

You will advance modern software design, deliver prototypes, and contribute to architecture that supports security reviews and production reliability.