Software Engineer III
Yum! Brands, Inc.2 days ago
Irvine, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$118k - $140k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build, test, deploy, and maintain cloud-based APIs, event-driven services, integrations, and data-processing workflows.
- Translate product and business requirements into technical designs, API contracts, implementation plans, and engineering stories.
- Coordinate implementation, testing, defect resolution, and production validation with engineering, quality, product, platform, vendor, and delivery teams.
- Participate in code and technical design reviews and apply established standards for reliability, security, maintainability, observability, automated testing, and deployment.
- Investigate and resolve production and non-production issues involving environment behavior, rate limits, integration failures, and security findings.
- Address technical debt, improve automation, document system behavior, and support secure releases through CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience developing and supporting production applications, APIs, distributed services, or integration platforms.
- A degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or equivalent years of experience.
- Hands-on experience with a modern server-side programming language and ecosystem, preferably TypeScript/JavaScript and Node.js.
- Experience with automated unit and integration testing, debugging, dependency management, and maintainable software-development practices.
- Experience developing and integrating REST or GraphQL APIs, asynchronous events, queues, and service-to-service integrations.
- Understanding of authentication, error handling, retry behavior, idempotency, and API-contract management.
- Experience building or operating applications on a major cloud platform, preferably AWS, using managed cloud services.
- Experience with Git, GitLab CI/CD, infrastructure as code such as AWS CDK or CloudFormation, Jira, Confluence, API specifications, and observability platforms.
- Experience collaborating with product, quality engineering, platform, security, senior engineering, and partner engineering teams through deployment, monitoring, and operational support.
Benefits
- Hybrid work schedule and year-round flex-day Friday.
- Onsite childcare through Bright Horizons, dining center, game room, dry cleaning, laundry services, carwash, and gym with fitness classes and personal trainer sessions.
- Up to 4 weeks of vacation per year, plus holidays and time off for volunteering.
- Tuition reimbursement and education benefits.
- Generous parental leave for all new parents and adoption assistance program.
- 401(k) with a 6% matching contribution from Yum! Brands and immediate vesting.
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage including prescription drug benefits and 100% preventive care.
- Discounts, free food, and swag.
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About Yum! Brands, Inc.
Yum! Brands is a publicly traded restaurant company that operates and franchises KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and The Habit Burger Grill for consumers worldwide. Its model centers on franchising, digital ordering, and delivery platforms, with corporate teams supporting marketing, supply chain, and enterprise technology. The company was formed in 1997 and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, with thousands of restaurants across more than 150 countries.