Sr. Software Engineer, Popeyes

Ready to make your next big professional move? Join us on our journey to achieve our big dream of building the most loved restaurant brands in the world.

• 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.

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including leading complex technical initiatives.
• 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.
• Proven ability to independently design and implement technical solutions from business requirements.
• 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, and be comfortable discussing how to structure prompts, manage context, use plan/agent modes, and evaluate AI output.
• Bonus for experience building or contributing to agentic systems, MCP servers, or internal AI tooling.

Benefits at all of our global offices are focused on physical, mental and financial wellness. We offer unique and progressive benefits, including a comprehensive global paid parental leave program that supports employees as they expand their families, 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.