Sr. Software Engineer, Popeyes

Senior Software Engineer at Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, responsible for leading technical design and delivery of scalable digital solutions for guest-facing, team member-facing, and franchisee-facing features. The role involves hands-on coding across React, Node.js, and TypeScript, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

• 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 TypeScript-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/TypeScript, React, and Node.js.
• Experience with GraphQL (Apollo Federation preferred).
• Cloud expertise, preferably AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB) 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 (CircleCI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and automation pipelines.
• Familiarity with observability tools (Datadog, CloudWatch).
• 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, candidates should be comfortable discussing how they 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.