Fullstack Engineer

WELCOME TO KFC

Welcome to Kentucky Fried Chicken. Our world famous chicken restaurant brand all started with one cook, Colonel Harland Sanders, who created a finger lickin’ good recipe more than 75 years ago, a list of secret herbs and spices scratched out on the back of the door to his kitchen. He started travelling by car to different restaurants and cooked his fried chicken on the spot for restaurant owners. He did this at the age of 65. If the owner liked the chicken, they would enter into a handshake agreement to sell the Colonel’s chicken. Legend has it that Colonel Sanders heard 1009 “No’s” before he heard his first yes. The Colonel’s story still inspires us today. It reminds us how grit, perseverance, dedication and ambition along with hard work can create success; regardless of your age or where you come from.

Our purpose as an employer is to empower our people to find their own secret recipe in life too.

Digital Technology @ 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 Reactjs 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/

Whilst we’re one of the world’s biggest and most loved brands, we’re still a small tech team of around 40 people (and growing!) so it’s a great environment to get exposure to lots of different projects. 

MORE ABOUT THE ROLE

Forming part of the KFC Digital Tech Team, you’ll be working to support the development of the Front end as well as the integrations to the many external services. Your focus will be on creating high quality, structured, reusable and annotated code. You will have 3+ years’ experience in development and be proficient using third party open-source packages and relevant code libraries. As part of a team consisting of Developers, Scrum Masters, QA’s, Devops and Designers, you will be able to communicate with these departments, contribute to ideas, and innovate where required.

WHAT WE’D LOVE FROM YOU

• React JS / React Native
• NodeJS
• Excellent AWS knowledge. Experience with AWS Serverless including: Step Functions, Lambda, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB and GraphQL
• Cloudformation exposure
• Jest testing framework
• Front-end skills (HTML5 / CSS3 / JavaScript / Ajax)
• Experience using code version control systems (GIT).
• Experience building responsive react websites and/or react native applications.
• Experience of integrating with web services and APIs, including REST endpoints.
• You will have experience and be proficient using third party open source packages and relevant code libraries like Google SDK
• Experience developing and following design patterns developing backend systems
• Relational & Document databases knowledge including Postgresql
• Working in an Agile framework before i.e. Scrum & Kanban
• Experience of QA/Test frameworks such as Selenium, load testing (Blazemeter), unit testing (Mocha/Chia) etc.
• Akamai management
• Terraform
• PHP
• Bitbucket Pipelines automated deployment
• Cloudflare management

ABOUT YOU

• Team player
• Good communication skills (especially verbal)
• Positive can-do attitude
• Proactive and not afraid to ask

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.

WELCOME TO KFC

Welcome to Kentucky Fried Chicken. Our world famous chicken restaurant brand all started with one cook, Colonel Harland Sanders, who created a finger lickin’ good recipe more than 75 years ago, a list of secret herbs and spices scratched out on the back of the door to his kitchen. He started travelling by car to different restaurants and cooked his fried chicken on the spot for restaurant owners. He did this at the age of 65. If the owner liked the chicken, they would enter into a handshake agreement to sell the Colonel’s chicken. Legend has it that Colonel Sanders heard 1009 “No’s” before he heard his first yes. The Colonel’s story still inspires us today. It reminds us how grit, perseverance, dedication and ambition along with hard work can create success; regardless of your age or where you come from.

Our purpose as an employer is to empower our people to find their own secret recipe in life too.

Digital Technology @ 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 Reactjs 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/

Whilst we’re one of the world’s biggest and most loved brands, we’re still a small tech team of around 40 people (and growing!) so it’s a great environment to get exposure to lots of different projects. 

MORE ABOUT THE ROLE

Forming part of the KFC Digital Tech Team, you’ll be working to support the development of the Front end as well as the integrations to the many external services. Your focus will be on creating high quality, structured, reusable and annotated code. You will have 3+ years’ experience in development and be proficient using third party open-source packages and relevant code libraries. As part of a team consisting of Developers, Scrum Masters, QA’s, Devops and Designers, you will be able to communicate with these departments, contribute to ideas, and innovate where required.

WHAT WE’D LOVE FROM YOU

• React JS / React Native
• NodeJS
• Excellent AWS knowledge. Experience with AWS Serverless including: Step Functions, Lambda, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB and GraphQL
• Cloudformation exposure
• Jest testing framework
• Front-end skills (HTML5 / CSS3 / JavaScript / Ajax)
• Experience using code version control systems (GIT).
• Experience building responsive react websites and/or react native applications.
• Experience of integrating with web services and APIs, including REST endpoints.
• You will have experience and be proficient using third party open source packages and relevant code libraries like Google SDK
• Experience developing and following design patterns developing backend systems
• Relational & Document databases knowledge including Postgresql
• Working in an Agile framework before i.e. Scrum & Kanban
• Experience of QA/Test frameworks such as Selenium, load testing (Blazemeter), unit testing (Mocha/Chia) etc.
• Akamai management
• Terraform
• PHP
• Bitbucket Pipelines automated deployment
• Cloudflare management

ABOUT YOU

• Team player
• Good communication skills (especially verbal)
• Positive can-do attitude
• Proactive and not afraid to ask

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.