Software Development Engineer III, Popeyes

Ready to make your next big professional move? Join us on our journey to achieve our big dream of building the most loved restaurant brands in the world.   

Restaurant Brands International Inc. is one of the world's largest quick service restaurant companies with nearly $45 billion in annual system-wide sales and over 32,000 restaurants in more than 120 countries and territories.

RBI owns four of the world's most prominent and iconic quick service restaurant brands – TIM HORTONS®, BURGER KING®, POPEYES®, and FIREHOUSE SUBS®. These independently operated brands have been serving their respective guests, franchisees and communities for decades. Through its Restaurant Brands for Good framework, RBI is improving sustainable outcomes related to its food, the planet, and people and communities.

RBI is committed to growing the TIM HORTONS®, BURGER KING®, POPEYES® and FIREHOUSE SUBS® brands by leveraging their respective core values, employee and franchisee relationships, and long track records of community support. Each brand benefits from the global scale and shared best practices that come from ownership by Restaurant Brands International Inc.

At Restaurant Brands International (RBI), we recognize that exceptional digital experiences significantly influence our guests’ decisions. At Popeyes, our digital platforms directly power guest engagement, ordering, promotions, loyalty, and franchise operations across North America. 

We are seeking a curious and energized Software Engineer to collaborate and deliver on features across our digital solutions. This role will directly impact millions of guest interactions while supporting franchisee-facing tools and operational systems. The ideal candidate is a product-oriented engineer who contributes production code daily, ships quickly, and is excited to work as a team to move the needle for our business.

RBI follows a 5 day, in-office work schedule to support collaboration. Candidates should be comfortable working onsite 5 days per week out of our office in Miami, FL.

What You'll Do: 

• Design, develop, and deliver features for critical guest facing, team member facing and franchisee facing digital features. 
• Contribute meaningful production code across React, Node.js, and TypeScript-based systems. 
• Thinks through performance and scalability of code handling high transaction volumes. 
• Prides themselves on overall code quality through code reviews and introducing engineering best practices. 
• Lead development of new features from concept through deployment, ensuring reliability and maintainability. 
• Collaborate with teams and relevant stakeholders to refine requirements and to push what’s possible. 
• Champion testing practices including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing. 
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and technical excellence. 
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools effectively, including writing clear prompts, authoring instruction/context files, scoping plans for execution, and reviewing AI-generated code with the same rigor as human-written code. 

What You'll Need To Succeed: 

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, including shipping features that touch millions of users, quickly and efficiently. 
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent industry experience. 
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and Node.js. 
• Experience with GraphQL (Apollo Federation preferred). 
• Cloud expertise, preferably AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred). 
• Experience with CI/CD tools (CircleCI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and automation pipelines. 
• Familiarity with observability tools (Datadog, CloudWatch). 
• Understanding of testing methodologies (A|B Testing and Experimentation). 
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders. 
• Experience in QSR, retail, or consumer-facing digital businesses preferred. 
• Demonstrate fluency with AI coding assistants as a daily development tool, candidates should be comfortable discussing how they structure prompts, manage context, use plan/agent modes, and evaluate AI output.  

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Benefits at all of our global offices are focused on physical, mental and financial wellness. We offer unique and progressive benefits, including a comprehensive global paid parental leave program that supports employees as they expand their families, free telemedicine and mental wellness support.

Restaurant Brands International and all of its affiliated companies (collectively, RBI) are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers that do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, provincial or federal laws, rules, or regulations. RBI's policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment. Accommodation is available for applicants with disabilities upon request.