What You’ll Be Serving Up
Assist in building and enhancing our customer-facing ecommerce mobile applications through partnering with our expanded teams with Yum and 3rd party software providers.
Here’s How You’ll Spice Things Up
Mobile development (80%)
Front-end & Middleware application development ((from front-end client facing apps to business logic and making REST api calls and graphql queries)
Assist in continuous integration and delivery efforts to ensure we’re constantly promoting quality code
Continuous personal learning and development skills as well as sharing knowledge across engineers
Refine application architecture in a cost-effective way to meet the organization’s changing business requirements while continuing to meet service level agreements (SLAs) for availability and performance.
Stay current on implementation technologies, best practices, and skills for application delivery success.
Document and communicate updated architectural patterns, component design, and development processes.
Develop and deliver high quality mobile applications that meet the requirements provided by the broader team
Assist in the implement vendor solutions, specifically around ecommerce and delivery
Cross-functional team interaction (20%)
Work with business area teams to help translate mockups into working prototypes and help determine development effort required
Be an advocate for ways in which web and mobile technologies can improve our restaurants, both for our customers and our team members
Provide code review for junior developers by suggesting improvements and best practices
Manage complexity of working on, or supporting, multiple projects at a time
What You Bring To The Table
Education/Certifications – BS in Computer Engineering or equivalent experience
Experience
Years of Experience
2 years React Native experience
3+ years of JavaScript experience
Knowledge and application of sound SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) methodologies
Experience with relational or non-relational databases
Foundational knowledge of systems design and application architecture
Experience implementing or integrating CI/CD processes
Performance testing, profiling and tuning
Knowledge of cloud-based architectures preferred
Experience with Native Modules is a plus
Experience with Objective-C, Swift, Java, or Kotlin is a plus
Experience evaluating and integrating 3rd party libraries is a plus
Familiarity with common popular React Native Libraries, components, and frameworks.
Experience with developer tooling (Xcode, Android Studio, Simulators etc.)
Experience with managing mobile app development and releasing apps on the Google Play Store and/or App Store Connect.
Released Apps on the Play Store/ Apple App Store preferred.
Technology Stack
Cloud-native applications, AWS preferred
JavaScript/TypeScript
React Native
RESTful APIs
GraphQL
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