Lead Software Engineer, React Native

Overview

Lead Software Engineer, React Native

 

Ensuring our supply chain effectively meets the demands of our restaurants is key to enabling Chick-fil-A's continued growth. We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to help us build and scale a mobile application that directly supports restaurant operations. This is a high-impact role for someone who is passionate about mobile technology, loves shipping great products, and is eager to mentor and lead a team of engineers.

 

Our current stack includes React Native, deployed to Google Cloud Platform, with backend services and real-time data powered by Firebase. You’ll help shape the technical vision, collaborate across disciplines, and ensure the mobile experience we deliver is performant, reliable, and delightful for the people who use it every day in our restaurants.

 

This role will live within our Digital Transformation and Technology (DTT) department and work closely with an Agile team including other software engineers, product owners, scrum masters, systems analysts, quality engineers, and system reliability engineers. This role requires strong React Native development skills and some knowledge of backend development. In this role, you can expect to build deep technical expertise around Restaurant-facing Supply Chain needs and capabilities.

 

As Lead Software Engineer - React Native, you will work to deliver the design, architecture, and implementation of an industry-leading native application to directly improve the business efficiencies of Operators and their team including the following outcomes:

 

• An intuitive user experience shaped directly by feedback from Operators and team members.
• An application that enables Supply Chain functionality across the areas of Inventory Management, Ordering, Integrated Credit Requests, and future-state capabilities.

Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and virtually, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead for a cross-functional team focused on building and evolving a React Native mobile application.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to shape solutions that serve restaurant Operators and Team Members.
• Make architectural decisions and guide the team in implementing scalable, maintainable mobile code.
• Mentor and coach engineers through code reviews, technical design sessions, and pairing.
• Ensure performance, reliability, and security best practices are baked into everything we ship.
• Partner with infrastructure teams to ensure efficient CI/CD and deployment to GCP and Firebase.
• Contribute to shaping our mobile strategy, identifying opportunities for platform reuse, testing automation, and user experience improvement.
• Value team excellence over individual productivity.

 

Note - Working in a DevOps model, this opportunity includes both building and running solutions that could require off hours support. This support is shared amongst the team members to cover weekends and weeknights. The goal is to design for failure and, using cloud-native infrastructure patterns, automate responses to possible issues so they can be worked during normal hours.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• 2+ years of hands-on experience building mobile applications with React Native
• Strong understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript, mobile architecture, and native module bridging
• Experience with Firebase services (e.g., Firestore, Auth, Remote Config, Cloud Functions)
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or other cloud service providers
• Proven experience leading teams or technical initiatives
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, and testable code
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and mobile release workflows
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally
• A track record of mentoring and coaching other engineers
• Comfortable working in Agile/Scrum environments
• Passion for building products that solve real-world problems for end users
• Experience with source control, including merging and branching in Git.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of native iOS or Android development.
• Familiarity with mobile analytics, A/B testing, or remote config tools.
• Previous experience working on platform or enablement teams.
• Experience with and understanding of AWS architecture.
• Experience with test-driven development, continuous integration.
• Experience working with an agile development methodology.
• Experience with Unix/Linux
• Experience with working and scaling with Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with backend development concepts, especially in Java-based environments (Spring Boot preferred).
• Exposure to building or debugging restful microservices, ideally deployed to Kubernetes in a cloud environment like AWS.

Minimum Years of Experience

5

Travel Requirements

10%

Required Level of Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Preferred Level of Education

Bachelor's Degree

Major/Concentration

Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field