Lead Software Engineer, React Native

Overview

Lead Software Engineer, React Native

Ensuring our supply chain effectively meets the demands of our restaurants is key to enabling Chick-fil-A's continued growth. We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to help us build and scale a mobile application that directly supports restaurant operations. This is a high-impact role for someone who is passionate about mobile technology, loves shipping great products, and is eager to mentor and lead a team of engineers.

Our current stack includes React Native, deployed to Google Cloud Platform, with backend services and real-time data powered by Firebase. You’ll help shape the technical vision, collaborate across disciplines, and ensure the mobile experience we deliver is performant, reliable, and delightful for the people who use it every day in our restaurants.

This role will live within our Digital Transformation and Technology (DTT) department and work closely with an Agile team including other software engineers, product owners, scrum masters, systems analysts, quality engineers, and system reliability engineers. This role requires strong React Native development skills and some knowledge of backend development. In this role, you can expect to build deep technical expertise around Restaurant-facing Supply Chain needs and capabilities.

As Lead Software Engineer - React Native, you will work to deliver the design, architecture, and implementation of an industry-leading native application to directly improve the business efficiencies of Operators and their team including the following outcomes :

• An intuitive user experience shaped directly by feedback from Operators and team members.
• An application that enables Supply Chain functionality across the areas of Inventory Management, Ordering, Integrated Credit Requests, and future-state capabilities.

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

Note - Working in a DevOps model, this opportunity includes both building and running solutions that could require off hours support. This support is shared amongst the team members to cover weekends 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.

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Minimum Years of Experience

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