Senior Software Engineer l

What You’ll Be Serving Up:

Assist in building customer-facing mobile applications.

Here’s How You’ll Spice Things Up:

• Mobile development (80%)
  • Full stack application development (from front-end client facing apps to API driven back-end code)
  • Assist in continuous integration and delivery efforts to ensure we’re constantly promoting quality code
  • Refine application architecture in a cost-effective way to meet the organization’s changing business requirements while continuing to meet service level agreements (SLAs) for availability and performance.
  • Stay current on implementation technologies, best practices, and skills for application delivery success.
  • Document and communicate updated architectural patterns, component design, and development processes.
  • Develop and deliver high quality applications that meet the requirements provided by the broader team
  • Assist in the implement vendor solutions, specifically around ecommerce and delivery
• Cross-functional team interaction (20%)
  • Mentor and coach junior development team members
  • Lead technical development designs for application creation
  • Work with business area teams to help translate mockups into working prototypes and help determine development effort required
  • Be an advocate for ways in which web and mobile technologies can improve our restaurants, both for our customers and our team members
  • Provide code review for junior developers by suggesting improvements and best practices
  • Manage complexity of working on, or supporting, multiple projects at a time

What You Bring to the Table:

• Education/Certifications – BS in Computer Engineering or equivalent experience
• Experience 
  • Years of Experience
    •  2-3 years React or React Native experience
    • 5+ years of JavaScript experience
  • Knowledge and application of sound SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) methodologies
  • Experience with relational or non-relational databases
  • Experience with TypeScript and querying GraphQL
  • Foundational knowledge of systems design and application architecture
  • Experience implementing or integrating CI/CD processes
  • Performance testing, profiling and tuning
  • Experience leading team and mentoring/coaching junior development team members
  • Experience with Terraform a plus
  • Knowledge of cloud-based architectures preferred
  • Technology Stack
    • Cloud-native applications, AWS preferred
    • HTML
    • JavaScript
    • Typescript
    • Sass/CSS
    • RESTful API
    • React
    • React Native

Benefits: Employees (and their eligible family members) may enroll in the following types of insurance coverage: medical, dental, vision, legal, and accidental death and dismemberment, as well as FSA/HSA (depending on enrolled medical plan). Yum! also provides short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance. Employees may enroll in our 401(k) plan. Yum! provides 4 weeks of vacation, paid sick leave, 10 paid holidays, a floating day off and 2 paid days for volunteer time each calendar year. To learn more about working at Yum! -Click here. 

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KFC Corporation, based in Louisville, Kentucky, is one of the few brands in America that can boast about having a rich, 60-year history of success and innovation. In fact, KFC is the world's most popular chicken restaurant chain and a division of Yum! Brands, the world’s largest restaurant company.
 
Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, has over 45,000 restaurants in more than 135 countries and territories and is one of the Aon Hewitt Top Companies for Leaders in North America. In 2018, Yum! Brands was recognized as part of the inaugural Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index. The company’s restaurant brands – KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell – are global leaders of the chicken, pizza and Mexican-style food categories. 
 
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