Job Description
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 II reports to the Sr Engineering Manager, Chapter Lead. In this role, you will be responsible for the design, development, testing and maintenance of the McDonald's Digital Technology software.
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:
- Working in a software development squad for restaurant products to support the design and development for new functionality and items relating to technical debt.
- Ensuring product requirements, features, and backlog items are reviewed and understood as part of Sprint planning.
- Actively participating and assigning story points (effort estimations) to the software development work.
- Verifying software through unit tests, integration tests, code reviews, and frequent customer demonstrations.
- Providing feedback on what went well and what could be improved during retrospective reviews.
- Providing frequent progress updates to the direct manager and other stakeholders.
The salary range for the role is $96,230-$135,925 per year
Qualifications:
- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience with programming experience in C#
- 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
- Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS or GCP
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent years of experience.
- Strong knowledge of software development tools such as GIT, GitHub, JIRA, Visual Studio or equivalent, etc.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, are hard-working and deliver high quality results in a fast-paced environment.
- 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
Preferred Qualifications
- Kubernetes
- Performance Testing
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 [email protected] . Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
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What We Do
McDonald’s is the world’s leading global foodservice retailer with over 38,000 locations in over 100 countries. We feed 68 million people every day and, along with our franchisees, employ 1.9 million people worldwide.
We're a household name across the globe, and we’re in the midst of a tech revolution in our business, doubling down on tech and creating a tech ‘recipe’ that is almost as proprietary as our Big Mac sauce®. Our tech organization is made up of intrapreneurs who get to build really cool tech with scary smart people using the latest innovations like AI, IOT, edge computing.
Why Work With Us
You'll work on industrial-scale products and platforms, alongside diverse, global teams who are always hungry for a challenge. We invest more than $1 billion in tech every year and have countless projects in AI, ML Image/Voice Recognition, IoT, robotics, edge computing and more. Bonus: see your family and friends use your work across the world.
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McDonald's Global Technology Teams
McDonald's Global Technology Offices
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