Lead Software Engineer, Supply Chain Engineering

How We Work At Chick-fil-A

Chick-fil-A, Inc. ('Chick-fil-A' or 'the Company') Staff members play a vital role in achieving our strategic goals by developing their skills, fostering inclusive teamwork, and embracing innovation. All Staff are expected to contribute to a compelling future by inspiring and motivating those around them. Growth and development are essential at Chick-fil-A. We want Staff to seek new perspectives and adopt new methods to drive continuous improvement and adaptation to evolving business needs.

Lastly, we ask Staff to seek wisdom, expect the best, accept responsibility, respond with courage, and think others first.

Our Flexible Future Model offers a healthy mix of working in person (currently a minimum of 8-10 days per month) and virtually, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.

As Chick-fil-A continues to grow in scale and volume, our Supply Chain needs become more complex and more critical. Chick-fil-A has embarked on a strategic initiative to build a more adaptive and flexible Supply Chain. This challenge involves many teams and people and relies on technology more than ever. The Supply Chain Engineering team, within Operator Technology Solutions, provides a software engineering team of Staff and Contractors to build, maintain, and operate custom solutions and integrations.

This role will live in 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 site reliability engineers. This role requires proficiency in Java, GoLang, React and Next.js frameworks.

As a Lead Software Engineer in the Inventory Lane, you will lead the development and strategy that enable our Operators to effortlessly replenish their Restaurants and enable supply chain leads make decisions around network design and fulfillment. These systems are mission-critical to the business, as the supply chain depends on them. The role involves defining feasibility and building intuitive user interfaces and scalable APIs that power key outcomes such as effortless replenishment, network design, and synchronized planning & fulfillment.

In this role, you will focus on strategy and feasibility across multiple bodies of work supporting the entire inventory space. The engineer will also focus on creating reusable tools and frameworks to improve developer productivity while maintaining high standards of scalability, performance, and system reliability. By driving innovation and enabling operational excellence, you will play a critical role in shaping the future of Chick-fil-A's supply chain inventory systems.

• Own the solution architecture decisions for your team’s product.
• Lead delivery and operations of the team’s product, including both individual contribution and support as well as delegated tasks and support to your team’s engineers.
  • We desire our lead engineers to be both leads and engineers, spending about half of their time on leading others and half contributing engineering work themselves.
• Lead, mentor, and assess other staff engineers, exemplifying and teaching best practices, helping to solve knotty problems, reviewing code, and sharing stories.
• Interview, select, onboard, and oversee contract engineers.
• Guide engineering team in adoption of Chick-fil-A software engineering standards.
• Identify and propose emerging software engineering technologies, methodologies and/or approaches.
• Delegate engineering assignments & assess engineering performance.
• Help provide support for the portfolio of solutions the team owns.
• Understand specific business processes and requirements and translate them to software functional requirements.
• Note - Working in a Dev Ops 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.

• Experience designing complex software solutions
• Experience mentoring and leading a team, including good interpersonal and team collaboration skills
• Broad and deep programming experience in Java, Golang, React, Angular, Java script, Next.js, or other comparable languages
• Experience with frontend deployment platforms such as Vercel
• Experience with SQL and data modeling
• Experience with source control systems like Git or Subversion
• Experience implementing application security and software design patterns within the SDLC
• Proven ability to positively influence the engineering culture and practices in a professional environment

• Experience working within supply chain software engineering, building and deploying inventory tracking and fulfillment software.
• Experience with test-driven…