We are looking for a Software Engineer - React Native with strong cross-platform experience to help build and
evolve applications used in real restaurant operations across iOS, Android, and Web. This role is for an
engineer who can take ownership of meaningful product areas, drive implementation quality, and deliver stable,
scalable experiences in production.
At this level, the engineer is expected to own modules end to end, contribute strongly to technical solution
design, propose practical implementation approaches, and help guide how features are built across platforms.
This includes close collaboration with product, design, backend, and QA partners to ensure the experience is
effective, maintainable, and operationally sound.
What You'll Work On
- React Native applications running on iOS, Android, and Web.
- Shared UI components and reusable business logic across platforms.
- Performance-sensitive workflows used in real restaurant operations.
- Production code where stability, usability, and maintainability matter at scale.
Core Responsibilities
- Own frontend modules and user flows end to end, from technical breakdown through delivery and post-release support.
- Build and maintain React Native applications used in production across multiple platforms.
- Translate product and design requirements into clear technical solutions and help lead discussions on the best way to implement them.
- Contribute to technical design decisions related to frontend structure, shared components, performance, state management, and scalability within your area.
- Ensure the quality, stability, and maintainability of the code in your domain of responsibility.
- Diagnose and resolve production issues, performance bottlenecks, and integration problems.
- Work closely with backend, design, QA, and product teams to shape feasible, user-centered solutions.
- Apply best practices in frontend engineering, including code organization, testing, accessibility, and performance optimization.
- Support less experienced engineers through technical guidance, collaboration, and code review.
- Help improve frontend patterns, engineering standards, and development workflows across the team.
Required Experience
- 4+ years of professional experience with React Native.
- Experience shipping, maintaining, and improving production apps on iOS and Android.
- ReactJS / Web experience is a strong plus.
- Strong understanding of React hooks and component lifecycle.
- Strong understanding of rendering performance and memoization.
- Strong understanding of debugging tools and workflows.
- Experience integrating RESTful APIs and handling asynchronous data.
- Experience owning features or modules end to end in a production environment.
- Ability to propose technical solutions and lead implementation conversations within a defined area.
- Confidence working across functions to balance UX, engineering quality, and delivery speed.
- Willingness to learn continuously, ask good questions, and improve the team's ways of working.
Expected Level of Ownership
- Owns defined product or technical areas with a high degree of independence.
- Solves routine and moderately complex engineering problems with sound judgment.
- Contributes actively to technical design and implementation direction for their area.
- Helps ensure consistency in patterns, maintainability, and engineering quality across the frontend codebase.
Demonstrates strong ownership of their area of expertise and consults effectively with design and engineering partners.
Nice to Have
- Exposure to native mobile development using Java, Kotlin, Swift, or Objective-C.
- Experience working in large codebases or shared component systems.
- Experience with frontend testing strategies and CI/CD pipelines.
- Comfortable using AI-assisted coding tools to explore solutions faster, debug more efficiently, and learn unfamiliar areas.
Skills Required
- 4+ years professional experience with React Native
- Experience shipping, maintaining, and improving production apps on iOS and Android
- Strong understanding of React hooks and component lifecycle
- Strong understanding of rendering performance and memoization
- Strong understanding of debugging tools and workflows
- Experience integrating RESTful APIs and handling asynchronous data
- Experience owning features or modules end to end in production
- Ability to propose technical solutions and lead implementation conversations
- Cross-functional collaboration with product, design, backend, and QA
- Willingness to learn continuously and improve team practices
- ReactJS / Web experience
- Exposure to native mobile development (Java, Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C)
- Experience with large codebases or shared component systems
- Experience with frontend testing strategies and CI/CD pipelines
- Comfortable using AI-assisted coding tools
Yum! Brands Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Yum! Brands and has not been reviewed or approved by Yum! Brands.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Corporate roles include four weeks of vacation, year‑round half‑day Fridays, company holidays, dedicated “Live Well” days, and paid volunteer days. These policies contribute meaningfully to overall compensation value for corporate employees.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Offerings include free access to mental‑health counselors, onsite/virtual wellness tools, onsite gyms in select offices, and wellbeing discounts. Smoking‑cessation and weight‑management programs further bolster lifestyle support.
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Parental & Family Support — Benefits span family‑planning coverage such as adoption, fertility, and baby‑bonding leave. Corporate materials also note enhanced parental leave for U.S. corporate employees.
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What We Do
Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, and its subsidiaries franchise or operate a system of over 55,000 restaurants in more than 155 countries and territories under the Company’s concepts – KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and the Habit Burger Grill. The Company's KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut brands are global leaders of the chicken, Mexican-style food, and pizza categories, respectively. The Habit Burger Grill is a fast casual restaurant concept specializing in made-to-order chargrilled burgers, sandwiches and more. What makes Yum! a great place to work? It's our people. As the world's largest restaurant company, we invest in people capability so that our global workforce can make the most of their careers. With ongoing opportunities for personal and professional success, we've built a culture that rewards and recognizes great effort while providing the flexibility that is so important to all of us.
