Staff Engineer, Software Engineer

Job Summary

The Staff Engineer, Store/Digital serves as a strategic technical leader with broad influence across multiple product teams. In addition to guiding software design, development, and lifecycle management, the Staff Engineer drives cross‑team collaboration, sets technical direction, and ensures alignment with organizational objectives. This role requires a system‑level perspective to anticipate and address engineering challenges, reduce technical risk, and elevate engineering effectiveness  Staff Engineer partners with engineers, architects, vendors, and the open‑source community to deliver innovative solutions that enhance customer experience and organizational outcomes.

• Provide technical leadership across multiple teams, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing to achieve unified outcomes.
• Apply system‑level thinking to identify and resolve architectural challenges, ensuring scalable and resilient solutions.
• Proactively assess and mitigate technical risks, supporting the organization in delivering reliable products and services.
• Champion engineering effectiveness by implementing best practices, optimizing workflows, and mentoring engineers to enhance productivity and quality.
• Build rapid prototypes to explore viability of solutions fit to product strategy, and upon alignment from stakeholders scale the solution and product ionize it.
• Identify, implement, and share technical solutions that can be used across the organization.
• Identify unsecured code areas and implement fixes as they are discovered.
• Identify product enhancements (client‑facing or technical) to create a better experience for end users.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects and with Chief Architecture Owners and create meaningful architecture diagrams and other documentation needed for security reviews or other interested parties.
• Define service level objectives for product to constantly measure their reliability in production and help prioritize backlog work.
• Write custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases also to do “destructive testing” to ensure adequate resiliency in production.
• Create meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively.

• 6+ plus years of hands‑on software development experience in either iOS or Android platforms.
• Mastery of programming languages such as Swift, Kotlin, Android, and Java.
• 4+ years of experience mentoring and providing work direction to developers.
• Experience with distributing mobile applications via public App stores and/or Enterprise channels.

• Analytical
  
  Skills:
  
  effectively uses data to generate insights.
• Planning & Prioritization: focus on highest impact, highest value.
• Financial & Business Acumen.
• Communicates Effectively and Candidly.
• Problem Solving: ability to use rigorous logic to solve problems with innovative effective solutions.
• Process Improvement: strive to continually improve.
• Ability to build and leverage talent.
• Ability to work in a challenging, fast‑paced environment and adapt to new situations as they arise.
• Ability to effectively communicate, inform, and influence senior leaders.
• Ability to work cross‑functionally on multiple initiatives with a successful record of advancing projects.

Papa Johns is an equal opportunity employer.

Papa Johns is a federal contractor that participates in the E-Verify program to confirm employment eligibility for each new team member. We also comply with all Right to Work requirements. Official E-Verify and Right to Work notices are available for applicants to review in both English and Spanish.

It is the policy of Papa John’s to provide equal employment opportunities for all applicants and team members without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, marital status or civil partnership, national or ethnic origin, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, uniformed service (as defined by 10 U.S.C. §101 (a)(5)), protected disability status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, or gender expression, or any other characteristic protected by statute or law.