Company Description
McDonald's evolving Accelerating the Arches growth strategy puts our customers and people first and demonstrates our competitive advantages to strengthen our brand. We are recognized on lists like Fortune’s Most Admired Companies and Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies.
Doubling Down on the 4Ds (Delivery, Digital, Drive Thru, and Development)
Our growth pillars emphasize the critical role technology plays as the best-in-class, global omni-channel restaurant brand. Technology enables the organization through digital technologies, and improving the customer, crew and employee experience each and every day!
Global Technology forging the way
Leading the digitization of our business is the Technology organization made up of innovation specialists who build industry defining tech using the latest innovations and platforms, like AI and edge computing to deliver on the next set of groundbreaking opportunities for the business. We take on technology innovation challenges at an incredible scale, and work across global teams who are always hungry for a challenge! This provides access to compelling career paths for technologists. It’s bonus points when you get to see your family and friends use the tech you build at their favorite McD restaurant.
Check out the Global Technology Technical Blog to learn how technology is directly enabling the Accelerating the Arches strategy.
Job Description
The Commercial Product & Platform vision develops global technology products and platforms that delight our customers and enable our crews to operate our restaurants reliably and effectively.
Software Engineer III reports to the Sr Engineering Manager, Chapter Lead. In this role, you will partner with our Product Management and Architecture teams to coordinate execution of the forward-looking vision of McDonald’s Digital Technologies and the high-value transformation initiatives that will fuel our journey.
That said, the biggest area of increase in our spending has been in technology, which is helping to drive our growth. We’re looking at how to use technology to improve the customer experience; build new customer experiences; reduce or eliminate repetitive task areas and make employees’ jobs more exciting. With all the new projects and initiatives, it is an exciting time to be on the team that is helping to make a Better McDonald's!
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to all aspects of the agile development life cycle including design, development, documentation, testing and operations.
- As a software engineer, you will play a pivotal role in crafting the definition, vision, design, road map and development of product features from beginning to end.
- Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, adaptability, cost, and security.
- Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all teams work.
- Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most meaningful priorities.
- Provide mentorship and guidance to junior engineers
The salary range for the role is $127,250-$179,745 per year
Qualifications
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience with programming experience in Java
- 2+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
- Advanced application development experience using Java / Spring boot in microservices applications
- Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent years of experience.
- Proven knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals (object-oriented design, data structures and algorithm.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, are hard-working and deliver high quality results in a fast-paced environment.
- Proven leadership abilities in an engineering environment in driving operational precision and best practices.
- Highly quantitative with great judgment and passion for building a great customer experience.
- Ability to take a project from scoping requirements to launch to delivery
Additional Information
McDonald’s is an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of our workforce. We promote an inclusive work environment that creates feel-good moments for everyone. McDonald’s provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities as part of the application or hiring process or to perform the essential functions of their job. If you need assistance accessing or reading this job posting or otherwise feel you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process, please contact mcdhrbenefits@us.mcd.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
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