Staff Engineer - Store & Digital Systems Leader

Papa John's International; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Papa Johns International is seeking a Staff Engineer, Store/Digital to act as a strategic technical leader across product teams, guiding software design and lifecycle management while driving cross-team collaboration and alignment with business goals.

You will mentor developers, push scalable architectures, and prototype solutions that scale to support customer-facing ecommerce experiences. This role emphasizes leadership, resilience, and a strong emphasis on engineering excellence.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on software development in React, Next.js, or similar web frameworks.
• Mastery of JavaScript and TypeScript programming languages.
• 4+ years mentoring and giving work direction to Developers.
• 4+ years designing, developing, and architecting customer-facing eCommerce applications.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across multiple teams, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing to achieve unified outcomes.
• Apply system-level thinking to identify and resolve architectural challenges, ensuring scalable and resilient solutions.
• Proactively assess and mitigate technical risks, supporting the organization in delivering reliable products and services.
• Champion engineering effectiveness by implementing best practices, optimizing workflows, and mentoring engineers to enhance productivity and quality.
• Build rapid prototypes to explore viability of solutions fit to product strategy and upon alignment from stakeholders scale the solution and productionize it
• Identifies, implements, and shares technical solutions that can be used across the organization
• Identifies unsecured code areas and implements fixes as they are discovered
• Identifies product enhancements (client-facing or technical) to create a better experience for the end users
• Collaborates with Enterprise Architects and with Chief Architecture Owners and creates meaningful architecture diagrams and other documentation needed for security reviews or other interested parties
• Defines service level objectives for product to constantly measure their reliability in production and help prioritize backlog work
• Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases also to do destructive testing to ensure adequate resiliency in production
• Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively

Skills

React/Next.js

JavaScript

TypeScript

Mentoring

Ecommerce

Job description

Papa Johns International is seeking a Staff Engineer, Store/Digital to act as a strategic technical leader across product teams, guiding software design and lifecycle management while driving cross-team collaboration and alignment with business goals.

You will mentor developers, push scalable architectures, and prototype solutions that scale to support customer-facing ecommerce experiences. This role emphasizes leadership, resilience, and a strong emphasis on engineering excellence.