What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Backend Software Engineer, Popeyes position at Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen?
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Restaurant Brands International Inc. is one of the world's largest quick service restaurant companies with nearly $45 billion in annual system-wide sales and over 32,000 restaurants in more than 120 countries and territories.
RBI owns four of the world's most prominent and iconic quick service restaurant brands – TIM HORTONS®, BURGER KING®, POPEYES®, and FIREHOUSE SUBS®. These independently operated brands have been serving their respective guests, franchisees and communities for decades. Through its Restaurant Brands for Good framework, RBI is improving sustainable outcomes related to its food, the planet, and people and communities.
RBI is committed to growing the TIM HORTONS®, BURGER KING®, POPEYES® and FIREHOUSE SUBS® brands by leveraging their respective core values, employee and franchisee relationships, and long track records of community support. Each brand benefits from the global scale and shared best practices that come from ownership by Restaurant Brands International Inc.
We're seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Popeyes team. Our stack powers ops end-to-end: fast, resilient services that inject and trace orders, bridge POS and kitchen tech, and orchestrate technology-powered kitchens and guest experiences at scale. We’re looking for a hands-on Senior Backend Engineer who takes end-to-end ownership: when something breaks, you can trace it across systems, find root cause, design a fix, and ship it while partnering with Restaurant Tech, Marketing, and Operations along the way.
This position is based in Miami, FL and is in the office 5 days a week.
Role & Responsibilities
Benefits at all of our global offices are focused on physical, mental and financial wellness. We offer unique and progressive benefits, including a comprehensive global paid parental leave program that supports employees as they expand their families, free telemedicine and mental wellness support.
Restaurant Brands International and all of its affiliated companies (collectively, RBI) are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers that do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, provincial or federal laws, rules, or regulations. RBI's policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment. Accommodation is available for applicants with disabilities upon request.
Restaurant Brands International Inc. is one of the world's largest quick service restaurant companies with nearly $45 billion in annual system-wide sales and over 32,000 restaurants in more than 120 countries and territories.
RBI owns four of the world's most prominent and iconic quick service restaurant brands – TIM HORTONS®, BURGER KING®, POPEYES®, and FIREHOUSE SUBS®. These independently operated brands have been serving their respective guests, franchisees and communities for decades. Through its Restaurant Brands for Good framework, RBI is improving sustainable outcomes related to its food, the planet, and people and communities.
RBI is committed to growing the TIM HORTONS®, BURGER KING®, POPEYES® and FIREHOUSE SUBS® brands by leveraging their respective core values, employee and franchisee relationships, and long track records of community support. Each brand benefits from the global scale and shared best practices that come from ownership by Restaurant Brands International Inc.
We're seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Popeyes team. Our stack powers ops end-to-end: fast, resilient services that inject and trace orders, bridge POS and kitchen tech, and orchestrate technology-powered kitchens and guest experiences at scale. We’re looking for a hands-on Senior Backend Engineer who takes end-to-end ownership: when something breaks, you can trace it across systems, find root cause, design a fix, and ship it while partnering with Restaurant Tech, Marketing, and Operations along the way.
This position is based in Miami, FL and is in the office 5 days a week.
Role & Responsibilities
- Own services end-to-end: design, build, test, deploy, observe, and iterate on backend APIs and integrations (primarily Node.js/TypeScript; Python where useful).
- Integrate critical systems: build resilient flows between ordering, payment, loyalty, and POS/in-store systems with strong idempotency, retries, and observability.
- Diagnose & resolve complex incidents: dig through logs/metrics/traces, reproduce edge cases, and ship pragmatic fixes with clear comms to stakeholders.
- Raise the engineering bar: improve API contracts, error budgets, on-call playbooks, CI/CD, and developer experience.
- Collaborate cross-functionally: work closely with Restaurant Tech, Marketing, Ops, Support, and vendor partners to translate real-world needs into durable backend solutions.
- Design for scale & reliability: apply sound service and data design, caching, queues, and backpressure patterns for peak traffic and store-level constraints.
- Test thoroughly: unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end tests; contribute to runbooks and SLO dashboards.
- Languages & frameworks: TypeScript/Node.js (NestJS), some Python.
- Cloud & runtimes: AWS (Lambda/ECS, API Gateway, S3, etc.) and Terraform.
- Data & messaging: DynamoDB, Redis, SQS/SNS/Kinesis/Kafka, REST/GraphQL.
- Quality & ops: CircleCI/GitHub Actions, feature flags, Datadog/CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, on-call.
- 6 years of backend engineering (recent roles primarily backend; full-stack experience is a plus, not the focus).
- Strong Node.js/TypeScript; comfortable using Python for services, scripts, or data-adjacent tasks.
- Proven experience designing and operating production APIs/services with high reliability.
- Expertise with AWS and CI/CD, secure service-to-service auth, secrets management, and Terraform or similar.
- Solid grasp of distributed systems basics: timeouts, retries, idempotency keys, event ordering, exactly/at-least once semantics.
- Excellent communicator who can partner with non-engineering teams to understand problems and ship outcomes.
- Experience (or strong interest) in MLOps, integrating with model inference endpoints, model observability, or batch/online inference workflows plus experience in retail/restaurant tech, POS integrations, payment/ordering flows, or edge/offline tolerant designs.
- Languages & frameworks: TypeScript/Node.js (NestJS), Python.
- Cloud & runtimes: AWS (Lambda/ECS, API Gateway, S3, etc.) and Terraform.
- Data & messaging: DynamoDB, Redis, SQS/SNS/Kinesis/Kafka, REST/GraphQL.
- Quality & ops: CircleCI/GitHub Actions, feature flags, Datadog/CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, on-call.
Benefits at all of our global offices are focused on physical, mental and financial wellness. We offer unique and progressive benefits, including a comprehensive global paid parental leave program that supports employees as they expand their families, free telemedicine and mental wellness support.
Restaurant Brands International and all of its affiliated companies (collectively, RBI) are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers that do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, provincial or federal laws, rules, or regulations. RBI's policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment. Accommodation is available for applicants with disabilities upon request.
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