We are building the YUM! SuperApp, powering operations across 29,500+ restaurants worldwide (KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, The Habit Burger). This high-scale, mission-critical platform supports restaurant teams globally and continues to grow rapidly.
We’re looking for a Technical Leader (ReactJS & React Native) who combines deep technical expertise with the ability to mentor others, drive quality, and ensure our apps remain performant and reliable post-release. You’ll play a key role in shaping our frontend architecture, guiding developers, and fostering a culture of technical excellence and collaboration.
Lead the development of scalable mobile apps with React Native, ensuring quality, performance, and reliability.
Contribute to and oversee ReactJS web app development, ensuring consistent architecture and design patterns across platforms.
Collaborate closely with backend engineers, designers, and product managers to deliver impactful solutions.
Mentor and support junior and mid-level developers, guiding code reviews, architecture discussions, and growth plans.
Own post-release monitoring and maintenance — proactively detect and resolve production issues using Sentry, Crashlytics, or similar tools.
Drive performance optimization and best practices across iOS and Android.
Contribute to technical planning, sprint reviews, and architecture design decisions.
4+ years combined frontend experience (React Native + ReactJS), with React Native as the core skill.
Proven track record of delivering and maintaining large-scale production apps.
Deep understanding of React Native architecture, performance tuning, and debugging.
Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Sentry, Datadog, Crashlytics, etc.).
Familiarity with native code (Java/Kotlin/Swift/Obj-C) and mobile build pipelines.
Strong communication and collaboration skills in English.
Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and raising team technical standards.
Leadership mindset:
Proactive and accountable; drives technical decisions with clarity and data.
Balances hands-on delivery with team enablement.
Champions clean architecture, testing, and maintainability.
Encourages learning, experimentation, and shared ownership.
Skills Required
- 4+ years combined frontend experience (React Native + ReactJS) with React Native as core skill
- Proven track record delivering and maintaining large-scale production mobile apps
- Deep understanding of React Native architecture, performance tuning, and debugging
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Sentry, Datadog, Crashlytics, etc.)
- Familiarity with native code (Java/Kotlin/Swift/Obj-C) and mobile build pipelines
- Strong communication and collaboration skills in English
- Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and raising team technical standards
- Leadership mindset: proactive, accountable, champions clean architecture, testing, and maintainability
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.
Yum! Brands Insights
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.
