Senior Software Engineer

Global restaurant brands run their operation on the Crunchtime platform. Delivering a consistent guest experience across every location and managing food and labor costs are at the core of how Crunchtime’s software is used today in over 150,000 locations across 100+ countries by the world’s top restaurant and food service operators. Customers including Chipotle, Culver’s, Domino’s, Dunkin’, Five Guys, and P.F. Chang’s rely on our top‑ranked platform, which now includes Zenput to manage inventory, staff scheduling, learning and development, food safety, operational tasks, and audits.

As a Senior Full‑Stack Software Engineer on the Crunchtime Suite team, you will be a key contributor to the evolution of our enterprise platform. We are seeking an empathetic systems thinker to collaborate with a talented team on researching and developing new features, products, and scalable service architectures. This role focuses on building high‑impact, customer‑facing functionality that serves as the core of our user experience.

As this is an R&D environment, our technology stack is intentionally flexible; however, our current technical direction leans toward Java and relational databases, with an eye toward event‑driven architecture using streaming integrations like Kafka.

• Improve tooling and software that comprises the Crunchtime Suite, including potential Web UI, APIs, and other forms of integration between services.
• Contribute to and influence design and development decisions across the Suite.
• Work within a self‑managing system using Sociocracy to drive continuous flow and value delivery.
• Engage tight feedback loops with stakeholders to evolve our processes and optimize customer value.
• Maximize throughput and minimize risk by using Pair Programming, TDD, CI/CD, and other Dev Ops best practices.
• Use Jira, Slack, and Zoom to maintain high transparency and communicate effectively with your team and leadership.

• Great communicator and outstanding team player. Bias toward over‑communicating and asking questions.
• Desire to be part of a team and culture, contributing to the best outcome for the team.
• Curious and intentional about self‑development.
• Proficient in multiple programming languages, software development frameworks, and tools.
• Expertise in system architecture and design patterns.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to tackle complex technical challenges.
• Demonstrated leadership abilities, including mentoring junior engineers and leading technical initiatives.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non‑technical audiences.
• Experience with Agile methods and associated principles.
• RDBMS experience.
• Ability to design and implement the right technical solution for the right problem at the right time.
• Strong focus on delivering quality results early and often.

• Specific experience with Crunchtime tech (Java, Java script, Python, SQL).
• Experience with Dev Ops.
• Expertise in and experience developing enterprise and web products at scale.
• Experience with distributed systems, complex user interfaces, or other challenging engineering problems.
• You’ve built great relationships with coworkers in the past and want to keep doing so.
• You care similarly about building great software and building great relationships with other people.
• You’re interested in the technical problems we are solving.
• You’re interested in the types of business problems we are solving.

• Great mission‑driven team members from diverse backgrounds with a strong company culture
• Competitive pay
• Flexible PTO
• Paid company holidays
• Yearly team off‑sites
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits (FSA, HSA & HRA options)
• Basic & voluntary life insurance
• 401(k) employer match
• Wellness benefits
• Commuter benefits
• Work in an open environment on solutions that are reshaping the way businesses operate
• Fun team events
• Ability to have a big impact
• 10 weeks of paid parental leave
• Fitness reimbursement
• Learning & development funds

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk
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