Staff Engineer

Staff Engineer Job Details Job Ref:R26_0000001926 Location:2002 Papa John's Blvd, Louisville, KY 40299 Category:Technology Employment Type:Full time Job Summary The Staff Engineer, Store/Digital serves as a strategic technical leader with broad influence across multiple product teams. In addition to guiding software design, development, and lifecycle management, the Staff Engineer drives cross-team collaboration, sets technical direction, and ensures alignment with organizational objectives. This role requires a system-level perspective to anticipate and address engineering challenges, reduce technical risk, and elevate engineering effectiveness at scale. The Staff Engineer partners with engineers, architects, vendors, and the open-source community to deliver innovative solutions that enhance customer experience and organizational outcomes. Duties And Responsibilities (other Duties As Assigned) · Provide technical leadership across multiple teams, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing to achieve unified outcomes. · Apply system-level thinking to identify and resolve architectural challenges, ensuring scalable and resilient solutions. · Proactively assess and mitigate technical risks, supporting the organization in delivering reliable products and services. · Champion engineering effectiveness by implementing best practices, optimizing workflows, and mentoring engineers to enhance productivity and quality. · Build rapid prototypes to explore viability of solutions fit to product strategy and upon alignment from stakeholders scale the solution and productionize it · Identifies, implements, and shares technical solutions that can be used across the organization · Identifies unsecured code areas and implements fixes as they are discovered · Identifies product enhancements (client-facing or technical) to create a better experience for the end users · Collaborates with Enterprise Architects and with Chief Architecture Owners and creates meaningful architecture diagrams and other documentation needed for security reviews or other interested parties · Defines service level objectives for product to constantly measure their reliability in production and help prioritize backlog work · Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases also to do “destructive testing” to ensure adequate resiliency in production · Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively Education, Experience & Certifications · 6+ plus years of hands-on software development experience in either React or Next.js, or similar web frameworks · Mastery of JavaScript and TypeScript programming languages · 4+ years of experience mentoring and giving work direction to Developers · 4+ years of experience designing, developing, and architecting customer-facing eCommerce applications Functional Skills · Analytical Skills: effectively uses data to generate insights · Planning & Prioritization: highest impact, highest value · Financial & Business Acumen · Communicates Effectively and Candidly · Problem Solving; ability to use rigorous logic to solve problems with innovative effective solutions · Process Improvement: Strive to continually improve · Ability to build and leverage talent · Ability to work in a challenging, fast-paced environment and to adapt to new situations as they arise · Ability to effectively communicate, inform, and influence senior leaders · Ability to work cross-functionality on multiple initiatives with a successful record of advancing projects Our Values EVERYONE BELONGS - We believe connectedness and belonging are the essential ingredients to our success DO THE RIGHT THING - We are relentlessly focused on quality and integrity and make the right choices, even when it's difficult PEOPLE FIRST - To craft positive experiences for our customers, we take care of each other first INNOVATE TO WIN - We champion and challenge for a better way in all we do HAVE FUN - We find joy, create meaningful impact and celebrate the journey together Our Core Competencies CUSTOMER CENTRIC - We leverage data and insights to craft a customer experience that builds relationships, cultivates trust, and delivers excellence RESULTS DRIVEN – We focus on measurable outcomes by remaining optimistic, tenacious, and persistent even in the face of challenges CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT - We champion for better through strategic risk taking, experimentation and challenging the status quo BIAS FOR ACTION - We courageously lead, drive towards decisions, and maintain agility to meet the demands of our dynamic industry WINNING TOGETHER - We work together to unlock our full potential by actively collaborating and contributing in a cross-functional capacity Papa Johns is an equal opportunity employer. Papa Johns is a federal contractor that participates in the E-Verify program to confirm employment eligibility for each new team member. We also comply with all Right to Work requirements. Official E-Verify and Right to Work notices are available for applicants to review in both English and Spanish.