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Lead Platform Engineer (Nodejs & AWS Serverless)
Salary Competitive salary
Schedule Full Time
Location Guildford Rd, Woking GU22 7NJ, UK

Lead Platform Engineer (Nodejs & AWS Serverless)


Description

Tech @ KFC…

At KFC, our platform has constantly evolved to make it as easy as possible to order our great chicken. We brought our development in-house four years ago which has helped to drive collaboration and innovation. Here at KFC, we empower people to be their best selves, make a difference and have fun.  

 

Think you can only buy our chicken in-store at our restaurants?! Think again! We’ve created a fast, simple omnichannel experience to help people order and get their food in the way that is most convenient to them, whether that be through our app to collect service via the front counter or drive-thru, in-store kiosk integrations, or fully integrated aggregator delivery (Deliveroo, JustEat, UberEats etc) and there’s more to come. 

 

We use React on our front-end and Node.js on our back-end, within a Serverless environment (AWS), so experience with JavaScript is ideal, but we’re happy to support your learning if you don’t have it. You can read more about our tech stack here… 

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/the-technology-behind-kfcs-finger-lickin-good-success/


About the role...

As Lead Platform Engineer in the KFC Digital Tech Team, you’ll be leading the development of the digital products for web and app as well as the integrations to the many external services. You will be proficient using third party open-source packages and relevant code libraries. As a leader, you will be expected to mentor and support the development of others within the team and to communicate with Engineers, Scrum Masters, QA’s, DevOps Engineers and UI/UX Designers, contributing to ideas, and innovating where required.


What we would love from you...

  • Experience leading teams and architecting backend systems, or strong experience to be able to step into this role
  • Technical skills including Node.JS and Terraform
  • Strong AWS knowledge from an architectural standpoint
  • Strong AWS Serverless knowledge across Step Functions, Lambda, SQS, SNS and DynamoDB
  • Automated deployment using Bitbucket Pipelines
  • Relational database knowledge including PostgreSQL
  • Experience working within an Agile framework



What we can offer you...


Rewards, Progression and LOTS of Recognition!


A career with KFC offers much more than just fantastic earning potential. We reward achievement with amazing incentives and benefits, including:

  • A great work-life balance with a 35hour working week and Summer Fridays
  • Company and performance-related bonus
  • Generous pension with up to 11% company contribution
  • Private healthcare with the option to increase to include family cover and extra dental cover
  • Annual holiday allowance starts at 25 days with the option to buy or sell up to 3 extra days per year, and increasing up to 30 days based on length of service
  • Coaching, Training and Support on many soft and technical skills
  • Competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
  • International career opportunities across Yum!
  • Pick n Mix Benefits, options include gym membership, health screening and travel insurance.


KFC can be a sociable company if that’s your thing, and we strive to incorporate our company value of fun whenever we can from payday drinks to weekly sports clubs; there's extensive wellness and mental health support with Sanctus Training and yoga classes so you can choose how little or how much you get involved.

Tech @ KFC…

At KFC, our platform has constantly evolved to make it as easy as possible to order our great chicken. We brought our development in-house four years ago which has helped to drive collaboration and innovation. Here at KFC, we empower people to be their best selves, make a difference and have fun.  

 

Think you can only buy our chicken in-store at our restaurants?! Think again! We’ve created a fast, simple omnichannel experience to help people order and get their food in the way that is most convenient to them, whether that be through our app to collect service via the front counter or drive-thru, in-store kiosk integrations, or fully integrated aggregator delivery (Deliveroo, JustEat, UberEats etc) and there’s more to come. 

 

We use React on our front-end and Node.js on our back-end, within a Serverless environment (AWS), so experience with JavaScript is ideal, but we’re happy to support your learning if you don’t have it. You can read more about our tech stack here… 

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/the-technology-behind-kfcs-finger-lickin-good-success/


About the role...

As Lead Platform Engineer in the KFC Digital Tech Team, you’ll be leading the development of the digital products for web and app as well as the integrations to the many external services. You will be proficient using third party open-source packages and relevant code libraries. As a leader, you will be expected to mentor and support the development of others within the team and to communicate with Engineers, Scrum Masters, QA’s, DevOps Engineers and UI/UX Designers, contributing to ideas, and innovating where required.


What we would love from you...

  • Experience leading teams and architecting backend systems, or strong experience to be able to step into this role
  • Technical skills including Node.JS and Terraform
  • Strong AWS knowledge from an architectural standpoint
  • Strong AWS Serverless knowledge across Step Functions, Lambda, SQS, SNS and DynamoDB
  • Automated deployment using Bitbucket Pipelines
  • Relational database knowledge including PostgreSQL
  • Experience working within an Agile framework



What we can offer you...


Rewards, Progression and LOTS of Recognition!


A career with KFC offers much more than just fantastic earning potential. We reward achievement with amazing incentives and benefits, including:

  • A great work-life balance with a 35hour working week and Summer Fridays
  • Company and performance-related bonus
  • Generous pension with up to 11% company contribution
  • Private healthcare with the option to increase to include family cover and extra dental cover
  • Annual holiday allowance starts at 25 days with the option to buy or sell up to 3 extra days per year, and increasing up to 30 days based on length of service
  • Coaching, Training and Support on many soft and technical skills
  • Competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
  • International career opportunities across Yum!
  • Pick n Mix Benefits, options include gym membership, health screening and travel insurance.


KFC can be a sociable company if that’s your thing, and we strive to incorporate our company value of fun whenever we can from payday drinks to weekly sports clubs; there's extensive wellness and mental health support with Sanctus Training and yoga classes so you can choose how little or how much you get involved.


Details
Salary Competitive salary
Schedule Full Time
Location Guildford Rd, Woking GU22 7NJ, UK

Skills
AWS
Node JS
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