Manager, Software Engineering

About The Role

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to provide leadership and guidance to our Yum Admin & Menu Management product team. This product is a portal that enables our brands, franchisees, and employees to manage their menus, promotions, taxes, in-store devices, and much more. In this role, you will leverage your problem-solving, communication, and interpersonal skills to drive team effectiveness and efficiency. As an Engineering Manager, you will oversee process and delivery timelines, contribute to strategic decisions, and guide technical activities to ensure the success of the Yum Admin & Menu Management product and meet customer needs.

What You'll Do

• Lead and mentor a team of 5-10 software engineers along with product owners, UX designers, and quality engineers to build the Yum Admin & Menu Management products
• Define and track measurable goals for the team
• Manage an agile development process to deliver incremental value to the Yum Admin & Menu Management platform with each iteration
• Foster collaboration with cross-functional teams, including product management, quality assurance, operations, and other stakeholders to develop best-in-class solutions
• Ensure the development and successful execution of realistic project plans within approved budget, scope, and quality constraints
• Nurture and grow your team through effective hiring, performance management, coaching, mentorship, and career development
• Ensure that the team is delivering secure, high-performance solutions by encouraging best practices and use of appropriate tooling for static analysis, live monitoring, and alerting
• Maintain your technical expertise by actively contributing to architecture, design, and code
  
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• BA/BS or higher in Computer Science or a related STEM field, or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience building scalable web applications and services
• At least 3 years of experience leading or managing a team of 5 or more engineers
• Proven track record of running an agile development process
• Strong proficiency in React, Node.js, and modern web development
• Experience with service development
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills
• Familiarity with GraphQL and TypeScript
• Experience with Golang
• Knowledge of unit testing and/or Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Basic understanding of DevOps technologies (CI/CD, Docker, etc.)
• Background in eCommerce or restaurant technology
  
  
  

Salary Range: $­­140,900 to $194,260 annually + bonus eligibility. This is the expected salary range for this position. Ultimately, in determining pay, we'll consider the successful candidate’s location, experience, and other job-related factors.

Benefits: Employees (and their eligible family members) may enroll in the following types of insurance coverage: medical, dental, vision, legal, and accidental death and dismemberment, as well as FSA/HSA (depending on enrolled medical plan). Yum! also provides short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance. Employees may enroll in our 401(k) plan. Yum! provides 4 weeks of vacation, paid sick leave, 10 paid holidays, a floating day off and 2 paid days for volunteer time each calendar year. To learn more about working at Yum! -Click here.

At Yum!, one of our core values is to Believe in ALL People. This means seeing the value in everyone and unlocking their full potential to be their best self. YUM! Brands, Inc. (including its subsidiaries Yum Restaurant Services Group, LLC (“YRSG”) and Yum Connect, LLC (“Yum Digital and Technology”)(collectively, “Yum”) is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to equity, inclusion, and belonging for all dimensions of diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other protected characteristic. Yum! is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities or special needs.

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The Yum! Brands story is simple. We have the four distinctive, relevant and easy global brands – KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and The Habit Burger Grill -- born from the hopes and dreams, ambitions and grit of passionate entrepreneurs. And we want more of this to create our future!

As the world’s largest restaurant company we have a clear and compelling mission: to build the world’s most love, trusted and fastest-growing restaurant brands. The key and not-so-secret ingredient in our recipe for growth is our unrivaled talent and culture, which fuels our results.

We’re looking for talented, motivated, visionary and team-oriented leaders to join us as we elevate and personalize the customer experience across our 48,000 restaurants, operating in 145 countries and territories around the world!

We put pizza, chicken and tacos in the hands of customers through customized ordering, unique delivery approaches, app experiences, and click and collect services and consumer data analytics creating unique customer dining experiences – and we are only getting started.

Employees may work for a single brand and potentially grow to support all company-owned brands depending on their role. Regardless of where they work, as a company opening an average of 8 restaurants a day worldwide, the growth opportunities are endless. Taco Bell has been named of the 10 Most Innovative Companies in the World by Fast Company; Pizza Hut delivers more pizzas than any other pizza company in the world and KFC’s still use its 75-year-old finger lickin’ good recipe including secret herbs and spices to hand-bread its chicken every day.

Yum! and its brands have offices in Chicago, IL, Louisville KY, Irvine, CA, Plano, TX and other markets around the world. We don’t just say we are a great place to work – our commitments to the world and our employees show it. Yum! has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index and ranked among the top 100 Best Corporate Citizens by Corporate Responsibility Magazine in addition to being named to the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index. Our employees work in an environment where the value of “believe in all people” is lived every day, enjoying benefits including but not limited to: 4 weeks’ vacation PLUS holidays, sick leave and 2 paid days to volunteer at the cause of their choice and a dollar-for-dollar matching gift program; generous parental leave; competitive benefits including medical, dental, vision and life insurance as well as a 6% 401k match – all encompassed in Yum!’s world-famous recognition culture.