Principal Software Engineer, Popeyes

Restaurant Brands International Inc. (RBI) is a leading quick‑service restaurant company with nearly $45 billion in annual sales, over 32,000 restaurants in more than 120 countries. RBI owns iconic brands such as Tim Hortons, Burger King, Popeyes, and Firehouse Subs.

Position:
Principal Software Engineer in Miami, FL. The role requires onsite work five days per week.

• Design, develop, and deliver robust technical solutions for critical guest‑facing, team member‑facing and franchisee‑facing digital features.
• Lead architecture and system design decisions, creating and documenting clear and reasoned approaches.
• Contribute meaningful production code across React, Node.js, and Type Script‑based systems.
• Improve performance and scalability of services handling high transaction volumes.
• Raise the bar on engineering processes, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and developer experience.
• Elevate overall code quality through rigorous design and code reviews, mentorship, and engineering best practices.
• Lead development of new features from concept through deployment, ensuring reliability and maintainability.
• Implement strong observability and incident triage methodologies using tools such as Datadog or similar platforms.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Champion testing practices including unit, integration, and end‑to‑end testing.
• Mentor engineers and foster a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and technical excellence.
• Leverage AI‑assisted development tools effectively, including writing clear prompts, authoring instruction/context files, scoping plans for execution, and reviewing AI‑generated code with the same rigor as human‑written code.

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including identifying, scoping and leading complex technical initiatives that drive significant business outcomes.
• Proven ability to independently deliver and oversee the delivery of high‑quality systems under strict deadlines.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript/Type Script, React, and Node.js.
• Experience with Graph
  
  QL (Apollo Federation preferred).
• Cloud expertise, preferably AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, Dynamo
  
  DB) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
• Experience designing and operating distributed, high‑traffic systems.
• Strong understanding of relational and non‑relational database systems.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Circle
  
  CI, Jenkins, Git Hub Actions) and automation pipelines.
• Familiarity with observability tools (Datadog, Cloud Watch).
• Strong understanding of testing methodologies (A | B Testing and Experimentation).
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate technical trade‑offs to non‑technical stakeholders.
• Experience in QSR, retail, or consumer‑facing digital businesses preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• A passion for mentoring team members and contributing to a collaborative, high‑impact team environment.
• Demonstrate fluency with AI coding assistants as a daily development tool; candidates should be comfortable discussing how they structure prompts, manage context, use plan/agent modes, and evaluate AI output.
• Experience building or contributing to agentic systems, MCP servers, or internal AI tooling is preferred.

Benefits include a comprehensive global paid parental leave program, free telemedicine, and mental wellness support.

Restaurant Brands International and all of its affiliated companies (collectively, RBI) are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers that do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, provincial or federal laws, rules, or regulations. RBI’s policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.

Accommodation is available for applicants with disabilities upon request.