Senior Go Software Engineer

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🕒 March 11

🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $131.1k - $164.3k / 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

• Lead the architecture and implementation of edge services in Go, including the cloud-to-edge synchronization bridge and authentication gateway • Design and optimize messaging patterns for high-throughput, low-latency event streaming across unreliable networks • Own the technical strategy for offline-first architecture, ensuring durability and eventual consistency during extended network outages • Build and maintain Kubernetes deployments via Helm charts for edge clusters managed through Spectro Cloud Palette • Optimize services for memory, CPU, and disk constrained environments typical of in-store hardware • Collaborate with cloud platform teams to design seamless cloud-to-edge data flows using MQTT-based bridging • Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, code reviews, and mentorship of engineers • Partner with Product and DevOps to plan phased rollouts and gradual migrations from legacy systems

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience operating production distributed systems • Experience acting as a technical lead, owning system design and guiding engineering decisions • Technical proficiency in • Go (1.21+) for high-performance, low-memory service • Distributed messaging systems such as NATS JetStream, Kafka, or similar • Kubernetes and Helm for container orchestration • Authentication and authorization using OAuth2 and JWT • Strong experience with • Event-driven and streaming architectures • CI/CD pipelines such as GitLab CI or GitHub Actions • Docker and containerized service development • Designing systems for resource-constrained or embedded environments • Additional Qualifications • Experience with MQTT and cloud-to-edge messaging bridges • Experience with edge Kubernetes management platforms such as Spectro Cloud Palette • Knowledge of high-availability patterns including multi-node clustering and fast failover • Background in restaurant technology, point-of-sale systems, or retail operations • Experience with GraphQL federation or domain graph services

🏖️ Benefits

• Employees (and their eligible family members) may enroll in the following types of insurance coverage: medical, dental, vision, legal, and accidental death and dismemberment, as well as FSA/HSA (depending on enrolled medical plan). • Yum! also provides short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance. • Employees may enroll in our 401(k) plan. • Yum! provides 4 weeks of vacation, paid sick leave, 10 paid holidays, a floating day off and 2 paid days for volunteer time each calendar year.