Lead Golang Engineer

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🕒 September 23, 2025

🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $145.2k - $181.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Yum! Center for Global Franchise Excellence

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1 - 10 employees

🤝 B2B

🛍️ eCommerce

🛒 Retail

B2B • eCommerce • Retail

Yum! Center for Global Franchise Excellence is part of Yum! Brands, Inc. , which operates a global network of over 60,000 restaurants under well-known brands such as KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut. Focused on building and partnering with franchise operators, the center aims to foster growth and excellence in franchising, while emphasizing sustainability and corporate responsibility across its operations in more than 155 countries.

📋 Description

• Develop Golang based GraphQL web services and Nodejs Typescript workflow services as part of our scalable interactive ecommerce platform • Work with in-memory and external caching solutions to improve platform performance • Write comprehensive unit tests • Architect, design, optimize, and refactor code for peak performance • Mentor junior engineers in engineering best practices • Contribute to requirement elicitation and grooming of new functionalities • Collaborate cross-functionally to design features impacting multiple microservices

🎯 Requirements

• Proficiency with Golang and Node.js • Minimum 5 years of experience building scalable interactive web applications • Familiarity with consuming or creating Graphql web services • Background with unit testing and/or Test-Driven Development (TDD) • A bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related field • Team player with a collaborative attitude

🏖️ Benefits

• 4 weeks of vacation PLUS holidays • 5 sick days • 2 paid volunteer days • 401k matching • Medical, dental, vision • Life insurance • Half day Fridays • Generous parental leave • A world-famous recognition culture