Staff Engineer

Duties And Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across multiple teams, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing to achieve unified outcomes.
• Apply system-level thinking to identify and resolve architectural challenges, ensuring scalable and resilient solutions.
• Proactively assess and mitigate technical risks, supporting the organization in delivering reliable products and services.
• Champion engineering effectiveness by implementing best practices, optimizing workflows, and mentoring engineers to enhance productivity and quality.
• Create rapid prototypes to explore viability of solutions fit to product strategy and upon alignment from stakeholders, scale the solution, and productionize it.
• Identify, implement, and share technical solutions that can be used across the organization.
• Identify unsecured code areas and implement fixes as they are discovered.
• Identify product enhancements (client-facing or technical) to create a better experience for the end users.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects and with Chief Architecture Owners and create meaningful architecture diagrams and other documentation needed for security reviews or other interested parties.
• Define service level objectives for product to constantly measure their reliability in production and help prioritize backlog work.
• Write custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases also to do “destructive testing” to ensure adequate resiliency in production.
• Create meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively.

Education, Experience & Certifications

• 6+ plus years of hands-on software development experience in either iOS or Android platforms.
• Mastery of programming languages like Swift, Kotlin, Android, and Java.
• 4+ years of experience mentoring and giving work direction to Developers.
• Experience with distributing mobile applications via public App stores and/or Enterprise channels.

Functional Skills

• Analytical Skills: effectively uses data to generate insights.
• Planning & Prioritization: highest impact, highest value.
• Financial & Business Acumen.
• Communicates Effectively and Candidly.
• Problem Solving; ability to use rigorous logic to solve problems with innovative effective solutions.
• Process Improvement: Strive to continually improve.
• Ability to build and leverage talent.
• Ability to work in a challenging, fast-paced environment and to adapt to new situations as they arise.
• Ability to effectively communicate, inform, and influence senior leaders.
• Ability to work cross-functionality on multiple initiatives with a successful record of advancing projects.

Our Values

• EVERYONE BELONGS - We believe connectedness and belonging are the essential ingredients to our success.
• DO THE RIGHT THING - We are relentlessly focused on quality and integrity and make the right choices, even when it's difficult.
• PEOPLE FIRST - To craft positive experiences for our customers, we take care of each other first.
• INNOVATE TO WIN - We champion and challenge for a better way in all we do.
• HAVE FUN - We find joy, create meaningful impact and celebrate the journey together.

Our Core Competencies

• CUSTOMER CENTRIC - We leverage data and insights to craft a customer experience that builds relationships, cultivates trust, and delivers excellence.
• RESULTS DRIVEN – We focus on measurable outcomes by remaining optimistic, tenacious, and persistent even in the face of challenges.
• CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT - We champion for better through strategic risk taking, experimentation and challenging the status quo.
• BIAS FOR ACTION - We courageously lead, drive towards decisions, and maintain agility to meet the demands of our dynamic industry.
• WINNING TOGETHER - We work together to unlock our full potential by actively collaborating and contributing in a cross-functional capacity.

Papa Johns is an equal opportunity employer.

Papa Johns is a federal contractor that participates in the E-Verify program to confirm employment eligibility for each new team member.