We are seeking a high-performing Software Engineer to drive critical platform, scalability, and AI-enablement initiatives across Byte Coach and related systems. In this role, you will operate with strong autonomy and technical ownership, leading complex initiatives that directly support Byte Coach’s strategic priorities:
- Scalable Brand Autonomy Platform Modernization on Byte OS
- AI-Powered Coaching & Collective Intelligence
- Operational Simplification & UX Improvements
- Reliability & Performance Enhancements.
You will own significant technical domains, influence cross-team design decisions, and deliver measurable platform and business outcomes at scale (33k+ restaurants globally).
ResponsibilitiesProject Contribution:
- Work on assignments of moderate scope and complexity.
- Analyze and expand on situations with multiple factors, breaking issues into logical steps and solving problems primarily using existing processes.
- Design secure, highly available backend systems that reliably integrate AI services with scalable and auditable context management.
- Work closely with product and AI teams to embed intelligence into operational workflows.
- Leverage native APIs and frameworks for integrations.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and bugs.
- Maintain code integrity through testing and documentation.
Collaboration & Communication:
- Build strong internal working relationships.
- Interact primarily with supervisor, project lead, or other professionals in the same or related disciplines.
- Clearly and effectively communicate and explain facts, policies, and practices.
- Decisions typically affect the immediate team.
Core Skills:
- Strong expertise in Java (OOP, concurrency, collections, transaction management).
- Proficiency with Spring Boot, Spring Data, Dependency Injection.
- Experience designing and scaling RESTful microservices.
- Knowledge of API security (OAuth, Cognito, token-based auth, RBAC).
- Experience with event-driven architecture (Kafka, SQS).
- Strong SQL and NoSQL database experience.
- Experience diagnosing and resolving production issues.
- Experience integrating AI-driven services into backend workflows.
- Exposure to conversational systems or recommendation engines.
- Experience supporting large-scale multi-tenant platforms.
- Proficient in Git for version control and team collaboration.
- Experience working in Agile environments, participating in sprints, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Preferred Skills
- Familiarity with JavaScript/TypeScript (ES6+).
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, and Harness.
- Hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, Lambda).
- Knowledge of Kubernetes for container orchestration, scaling, and deployment.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools like DataDog.
Skills Required
- Strong expertise in Java, including object-oriented programming, concurrency, collections, and transaction management
- Proficiency with Spring Boot, Spring Data, and dependency injection
- Experience designing and scaling RESTful microservices
- Knowledge of API security, including OAuth, Cognito, token-based authentication, and RBAC
- Experience with event-driven architecture using Kafka or SQS
- Strong SQL and NoSQL database experience
- Experience diagnosing and resolving production issues
- Experience integrating AI-driven services into backend workflows
- Exposure to conversational systems or recommendation engines
- Experience supporting large-scale multi-tenant platforms
- Proficiency with Git for version control and team collaboration
- Experience working in Agile environments, participating in sprints, and collaborating cross-functionally
- Familiarity with JavaScript or TypeScript
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, or Harness
- Hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, or Lambda
- Knowledge of Kubernetes for container orchestration, scaling, and deployment
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Datadog
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.
