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Job Summary
The Senior Engineer, Corporate Solutions is responsible for being a leading participant in an engineering team and contributing to software design, development, and overall product lifecycle for our corporate solutions applications. In addition to working with other engineers and architects, field questions from other teams and encourage cross-team collaboration. Play active role working with third party vendors. Create foundational code elements that can be reused. Define software level objectives for applications.
Duties and Responsibilities (other duties as assigned)
- Builds rapid prototypes to explore viability of solutions fit to product strategy and upon alignment from stakeholders scale the solution and productionize it
- Identifies, implements, and shares technical solutions that can be used across the organization
- Identifies unsecured code areas and implements fixes as they are discovered
- Identifies application enhancements (client-facing or technical) to create a better experience for the end users
- Collaborates with Enterprise Architects and stakeholders to create meaningful architecture diagrams and other documentation needed for security reviews or other interested parties
- Defines service level objectives for application to constantly measure their reliability in production and help prioritize backlog work.
- Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases also to do “destructive testing” to ensure adequate resiliency in production
- Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively
- Identifies application enhancements (customer-facing or technical) to create a better experience for the end users
- Creates meaningful architecture diagrams and other documentation needed for security reviews or other interested parties
- Provides application support for software running in production
- Proactively monitors production and lower environments service level objectives for applications
- Works with vendors to help identify and implement feature enhancements in applications
- Works with other engineering teams to create and consume API specifications and contracts for shared data
- Proactively reviews the performance and capacity of all aspects of production: code, infrastructure, data, and message processing
- Triages high priority issues and outages as they arise
- Participates in the Backoffice Oncall Schedule
Education, Experience & Certifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a closely related technical field. (Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a related quantitative discipline is a plus, but not required.)
- 6+ years experience doing backend development in Java, with strong proficiency in the Spring Boot ecosystem.
- 4+ years experience doing frontend development in Javascript.
- 4+ plus years experience working with SQL.
- Experience with Python for systems scripting, automation, or task orchestration.
- Extensive knowledge of building and deploying applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Direct understanding and experience managing containerized workloads inside Kubernetes clusters.
- Experience with Git-based source control (Bitbucket).
- Experience with dependency management using Apache Maven.
- Experience using AI-assisted development using tools such as Gemini Code Assist, Antigravity, etc.
- Experience building, maintaining, and debugging CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins or Harness.
- Strong Linux system administration skills, including terminal navigation, process management, shell scripting, and JVM
troubleshooting. - Experience executing and troubleshooting custom, manual application deployments directly on remote SSH servers.
- Hands-on experience with Nexus Repository Manager.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for both engineering teams and non-technical business partners globally.
Functional Skills
- Effectively analyzes system and operational data to generate insights that drive operational excellence.
- Prioritizes tasks and projects to focus on high-impact, high-value initiatives.
- Demonstrates a strong understanding of business drivers, resource costs, and financial impact in technical decision-making.
- Communicates transparently and candidly across teams, ensuring alignment and building trust.
- Applies rigorous logic and diagnostic methods to solve complex issues with innovative, sustainable solutions.
- Constantly strives to optimize existing workflows, code quality, and delivery processes.
- Builds, mentors, and leverages team talent to foster high performance and technical growth.
- Navigates fast-paced environments successfully and quickly adapts to evolving technical or business landscapes.
- Effectively communicates technical roadmaps, risks, and strategies to inform and influence senior leadership.
- Works effectively across teams on multiple concurrent initiatives with a proven record of driving projects to completion.
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. We also comply with all Right to Work requirements. Official E-Verify and Right to Work notices are available for applicants to review in both English and Spanish.
Everybody loves pizza, which means they also love the people who are behind the scenes working to deliver it. This is complex and challenging work – but let’s face it – it’s also pizza! If you want a fulfilling career with a company that’s always moving forward, we’re the right place.
Papa John's is a Federal Contract employer who participates in E-Verify to confirm employment eligibility for each new team member. For more information please view the following PDFs: E-Verify Poster (English) - Right to Work Poster (English) - E-Verify Poster (Spanish) - Right to Work Poster (Spanish) Papa John's is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. For more information please click on the following PDF. See terms & conditions for site use.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or closely related field
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related quantitative discipline
- 6+ years backend development in Java with strong proficiency in the Spring Boot ecosystem
- 4+ years frontend development in Javascript
- 4+ years working with SQL
- Experience with Python for systems scripting, automation, or task orchestration
- Extensive knowledge of building and deploying applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Direct understanding and experience managing containerized workloads inside Kubernetes clusters
- Experience with Git-based source control (Bitbucket)
- Experience with dependency management using Apache Maven
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Gemini Code Assist, Antigravity, etc.
- Experience building, maintaining, and debugging CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins or Harness
- Strong Linux system administration skills including terminal navigation, process management, shell scripting, and JVM troubleshooting
- Experience executing and troubleshooting custom, manual application deployments directly on remote SSH servers
- Hands-on experience with Nexus Repository Manager
- Strong communication and collaboration skills to translate technical concepts for technical and non-technical stakeholders
Papa John's Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Papa John's and has not been reviewed or approved by Papa John's.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as available for eligible roles, including medical and dental options, alongside life and disability coverage in some packages.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is described as available for eligible employees through a 401(k) plan, sometimes referenced with a company match depending on role and employer.
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Career-Linked Recognition & Rewards — Career-linked rewards are described through education support such as the Dough & Degrees program and occasional performance-related bonuses or recognition-style perks in certain organizations.
Papa John's Insights
What We Do
Papa John's Pizza is an American restaurant company that runs the third largest take-out and pizza delivery restaurant. Papa John's seeks people who have an entrepreneurial spirit and share our philosophy for success. Hands-on training, a clean and safe work environment, quality business practices, advancement opportunities and meaningful work combine to produce not only the best pizza, but also the best team members! Better Opportunities. Better People! At Papa John's we call ourselves team members instead of employees because we believe it is only through a strong team we can produce the best experience for our customers. Whether at our corporate campus, distribution centers, our restaurants, or located internationally; Papa John's has a variety of positions for talented and passionate people. Papa John's is an equal opportunity employer and provides excellent career opportunities for our entire team. Our company philosophies of promote from within and rewards based on performance are important elements of our company culture.
