Sr. Lead Software Engineer - Android Mobile Architect

Overview As the industry leader in overall customer satisfaction, Chick-fil-A thrives on pioneering what’s next. We’re looking for a seasoned professional to join our team and deliver on our technological vision for how commerce happens in the restaurant. The role ofSenior Lead Engineer - Android Mobile Architecton our Kitchen Production System, called ViewPoint, is not just about being an expert in Android software development but shaping a crucial experience for team members to create millions of moments of caring for our guests every day. Collaborating with Product Owners, Designers, Analysts, and Enterprise Architects, you will leverage your Android expertise for those around you to ensure the successful development, implementation, and deployment of ViewPoint from our first few stores all the way to full the chain. Your expertise will play a crucial role in shaping the way we use technology to delight our customers through radically convenient and remarkably human interactions. We aren’t just remaking our KPS system but creating an innovative platform of kitchen production screens to empower our team members as they deliver the fastest drive thru experience available anywhere. ViewPoint is the key tool that makes this possible. As a Sr. Lead Software Engineer, you will be a technical expert on this agile, product-focused team where you can lead the product's direction, system architecture and engineering patterns, while mentoring other staff engineers. You will set the standard for code contribution on your team while keeping the systems you are responsible for running, stable and secure. You will leverage and contribute to existing frameworks while following and extending accepted architectural patterns. We need your expertise in delivering mobile applications, a background in development for dedicated hardware, commercial release management, and for testing applications that are a part of a larger suite of interdependent products. This role calls for a technology enthusiast with a strategic mindset, outstanding leadership skills, and a hands-on approach. We need individuals that are highly collaborative and can work across team and functional boundaries with ease. The problems that you’ll be solving are challenging and require teams to tackle the complexity. This means that you need to be able to do hard things with kindness. If you are excited about making a significant impact through cutting-edge mobile technology and doing it on a team that values each member’s contributions, we’d love to talk to you. This role is based in Atlanta, GA, and will involve some travel in the field. 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. Responsibilities Solution Ownership: Take ownership of large feature architectural decisions, shaping the technical direction and strategy of key functionality A Seasoned Guide: Guide delivery and operations of the team’s product, including both individual contribution and support as well as delegate tasks and support to your team’s engineers. We desire our engineers to be both leads and engineers, spending a portion of their time leading others as well as contributing engineering work themselves. Team Building and Management: Be actively involved in the interview and selection process of contract software engineers and partner engineering teams. Oversee their onboarding and continuous progress. Collaborative Engineering: Work closely with partner engineering teams to promote the use of industry best practices, provide solutions to complex problems, review code, and share knowledge and experiences. Progress Monitoring: Regularly review partner's progress to ensure alignment with the project requirements, our engineering standards, and adherence to deadlines and service level agreements (SLAs). Technological Foresight: Keep a finger on the pulse of the tech world, identifying and proposing emerging software engineering technologies, methodologies, and approaches that can enhance our operations and offerings. This role operates under a DevOps model, encompassing both the creation and ongoing management of solutions. It's important to note that this may occasionally require off-hours support. However, this responsibility is shared among team members to cover weekends and weeknights. We strive to design for resilience by employing cloud-native infrastructure patterns, automating responses to potential issues to enable workable solutions during standard hours. Minimum Qualifications Experience designing complex software solutions Expert-level knowledge in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Flow, Coroutines, Gradle, Networking, Android Lifecycle Experience with complex data modeling Experience mentoring and leading a team Strong analytical and problem-solving skills Experience on larger engineering teams, including good interpersonal and team collaboration skills as well as demonstrated ability to drive for quality results Broad and deep programming experience in modern software development languages to produce functional code from relatively unstructured tasks Experience working with an agile development methodology featuring sprints, points estimation, and daily standups Familiarity with version control systems and code merging/branching; specific experience with git desirable Experience in solutions architecture for distributed, highly available systems as well as cloud solutions Preferred Qualifications Experience with a distributed database system like Couchbase, Firebase, Ditto, etc. Familiarity with version control systems and code merging/branching; specific experience with git Experience working with an agile development methodology featuring sprints, points estimation, and daily standups Experience in design, data collection, and data analysis Excellent written and verbal communication skills Proven ability to positively influence the engineering culture and practices in a professional environment 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 Major/Concentration Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field Job FunctionInformation Technology Position TypeExperienced Professionals Requisition ID2024-17670 Posting Location : LocationUS-GA-Atlanta