Software Engineer

Overall Ambition

Solve some of today's complex hospitality problems by creating innovative solutions using an open technology toolset.

What We're Looking For

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our passionate, lean, agile, fast-growing, evolving and tech-loving team on a permanent basis. The projects we are working on are innovative and will change the fast-casual dining experience forever.

As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, deploying and maintaining innovative solutions using the latest tools and technologies. Software Engineers work in conjunction with Technical Leads and focus on delivering through the entire technical stack: be that backend services, systems integrations or rich user interfaces.

You will relish tackling and solving tough problems and be looking to expand your skillset and increase your influence across new technologies. We will continue investing in you through training, conferences and great opportunities for advancement as we grow our team.

You'll be comfortable working independently on backend and frontend tickets and can run effective sessions with peers on your team to ensure we're delivering the right thing in the right way. You will work with our build pipelines and infrastructure at a level where you can configure, optimise and troubleshoot for continued reliability and performance.

You'll be passionate about moving Nando's forward and be a champion of best practices, patterns, processes and tech. You will lead by example: getting your hands dirty in the code, inspiring your peers & delivering quality software every day.

About the Locate, Payment and Menu Team

Our team brings together three critical domains of the Nando’s eCommerce platform. The Locate domain is key to discovering restaurant capabilities during online ordering and third-party integrations, helping communicate to our customers and other systems what a restaurant can offer. The Menu domain’s primary objective is to support the business in presenting menu items digitally, effectively translating the physical menu into a seamless digital experience. The payment domain covers everything related to getting money in for our eCommerce journeys, making integration with our payment provider a critical responsibility.

As a member of our team, you will play a crucial role in developing and enhancing the digital experience across these domains. Your primary responsibility will be to work on end-to-end projects, providing APIs and connecting them with the frontend experience on both web and app platforms. Collaboration with other domain teams within the Customer Digital space will be a key aspect of your role, ensuring smooth integration and leveraging collective expertise to deliver the overall customer experience. You will be responsible for developing elegant solutions to match multi-variant business requirements and building high-throughput systems to support our operations.

Responsibilities:

Our Engineers have the opportunity to work on a variety of projects across a wide range of products that enable us to operate our restaurants business efficiently and provide customers with a great experience.

• Actively collaborate with other members of the team across all disciplines
• Routinely pair across disciplines and drive improvements in the team ways of working
• Support backlog priority decisions with technical input
• Develop E2E and unit test coverage, actively work to increase the robustness, quality, and number of tests within our codebase alongside feature development
• Maintain services once in production and ensure a robust monitoring and alerting strategy is in place (and create one if not). If you build it, you run it.
• Build robust and performant release pipelines; support peers in troubleshooting build failures

Skills required

• Proficiency in programming languages such as Rust or Golang is a must
• Experience with TypeScript and React is a big bonus
• Proven experience of agile practices and ability to breakdown complex epics/features and provide effort estimates
• Experience working in more than one language/stack
• Can articulate topics and promote technology opportunities with a clear customer benefit
• Can engage with stakeholders outside the team and lead technical integration discussions with 3rd parties

Everyone is Welcome

At Nando's, everyone is welcome. Inspired by our Southern African heritage we know and value the richness that diversity brings to Nando’s. We’re committed to creating an inclusive and respectful culture for all; including our existing and future Nandocas, partners and suppliers, customers and the communities we are a part of.

We deliberately work hard to create an environment where every individual is valued, respected and can flourish regardless of who they are, their background or outlook on life.

We welcome applications from a diverse range of individuals and will consider any reasonable adjustments in order to enable candidates to perform as well as possible during the recruitment process