Principal Software Engineer, Mobile

Company Description

McDonald’s growth strategy, Accelerating the Arches, encompasses all aspects of our business as the leading global omni-channel restaurant brand. As the consumer landscape shifts we are using our competitive advantages to further strengthen our brand. One of our core growth strategies is to Double Down on the 3Ds (Delivery, Digital and Drive Thru). McDonald’s will accelerate technology innovation so 65M customers a day will experience a fast, easy experience, whether at one of our 25,000 and growing Drive thrus, through McDelivery, dine-in or takeaway. 

McDonald’s Global Technology is here to power tomorrow’s feel-good moments.That’s why you’ll find us at the forefront of transformative technology, exploring new and innovative ways to serve our millions of customers and spread happiness one delicious Hot Fudge Sundae-dipped fry at a time. Using AI, robotics and emerging tech, we’re digitizing the Golden Arches. Combine that with our unparalleled global scale, and we’re reshaping all areas of the business, industry and every community that is home to a McDonald’s restaurant. We face complex tech challenges every day. But that’s where our diverse and talented teams come in. They’re made up of the best and brightest from all over the globe, and they thrive in the space where feel-good meets fast-paced.  

Check out the McDonald’s  Global Technology Technical Blog to learn how technology and our global team are directly enabling the Accelerating the Arches strategy. 

Job Description

As a Principal Engineer in Customer Technology, you are a thought leader and trusted partner of technology and product teams, defining solutions to highly complex and often abstract business and technology problems. You will solve challenges impacting multiple lines of business and technologies, often within capabilities critical to McDonald's success. You will define engineering strategies to deliver new or evolving business and technology capabilities and align partners to those strategies. You will also lead the engineering design and delivery of solutions that evolve Customer Tech products in the McDonald’s Global Mobile App and Marketing technologies.

Use your skills, experience, and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As a Principal Engineer, you’ll take the lead as you…

• Understand McDonald's business and technical environments and assist teams in resolving complex business challenges via technical solutions.
• Collaborate with technical staff and Architecture teams in setting technical direction across platforms.
• Drive technology lifecycle management and communicate standards/decisions to engineering teams.
• Lead the engineering design and hands-on building of iOS and Android applications and cloud services, with a deep focus on both functional & non-functional requirements, including scalability, availability, and performance.
• Work with engineering leaders to build high-performing engineering teams, providing technical leadership, coaching, motivation, and participating in the selection of technical talent.
• Be a strong advocate of agile and DevOps practices, encouraging a culture of extreme agility with engineers.
• Assess viability, applicability, and cost implications through POCs and prototypes.

Benefits eligible: Yes
Bonus eligible: Yes
Long term incentive eligible: Yes
The expected salary range for this role is $168,350 - $218,860 per year 
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we may also consider your experience, and other job-related factors.

Qualifications

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience. Continuing education to maintain thorough knowledge of technical domains and staying current with the latest technologies.
• 12 years of experience in software engineering with a focus on Mobile app development
• 4 years of experience in strategic planning and setting technical direction.
• Has demonstrated success in solving complex technical problems across multiple technical or functional areas.
• Proven experience leading the design and delivery of enterprise-scale solutions within a large enterprise, where solutions span multiple lines of business.

Engineering & Technology:

• Proven experience defining technology strategy for a line of business or enterprise technology capability and driving the delivery of resulting solutions.
• Demonstrated experience building solutions with microservices and event-based architecture using JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin, etc.).
• Strong experience in mobile application development on both iOS and Android platforms, including mobile-specific technologies and frameworks like Swift, SwiftUI/UIKit, Kotlin/Android Java, and Jetpack Compose.
• Experience with a broad tech stack, frameworks, databases, and tools such as Spring Boot, Micronaut, .net, MongoDB, Postgres, Elastic Search, Kafka, ReactJS, and Cloud technologies.

Leadership:

• Strong planning and organizational skills.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills to convey complex technical solutions clearly to the organization.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to influence others.
• A strong team player who thrives in collaborative environments.
• Proven ability to foster collaboration across teams, breaking down silos and ensuring alignment on technical goals and delivery.

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Additional Information

Benefits eligible: This position offers health and welfare benefits, a 401(k) plan, adoption assistance program, educational assistance program, flexible ways of working, and time off policies (including sick leave, parental leave, and vacation/PTO). Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on job classification and length of employment. 

Bonus eligible: This position is eligible for a bonus, calculated based on individual and company performance.

Long term Incentive eligible: This position is eligible for stock or other equity grants pursuant to McDonald’s long-term incentive plan.

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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