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Job Summary
The Senior Tech Lead guides 1–2 engineering teams to deliver high-quality software solutions, balancing hands-on technical work with effective people leadership. This role sets technical direction, oversees system design and architecture, and fosters career growth within the team. The Senior Tech Lead collaborates cross-functionally with product partners to achieve organizational objectives, ensuring best practices and continuous improvement in engineering processes. This is a hands-on role responsible to lead people and delivery, while still writing code and influencing architecture. The role is both people leader and senior technical contributor, responsible for guiding 1–2 engineering teams in delivering high-quality software while also remaining hands-on in system design, coding, debugging, and architectural decision-making.
Duties & Responsibilities (other duties as assigned)
• Lead and manage 1–2 engineering teams, providing structure, clarity, and ongoing support.
• Define and communicate technical vision, aligning team efforts with business goals.
• Drive high-quality software delivery through hands-on involvement in system design, coding, and debugging.
• Make architectural decisions and ensure scalable, maintainable solutions.
• Mentor and develop engineering talent, supporting career growth and skill advancement.
• Establish and promote healthy engineering practices and agile methodologies.
• Collaborate closely with product managers and stakeholders to deliver impactful results.
• Monitor team performance, remove blockers, and facilitate continuous improvement.
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.
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Papa John's Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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.
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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.
