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Software Engineer
Software Engineer – USA Tech Team
Overall Ambition
Solve some of today's complex hospitality problems by creating innovative solutions using an open technology toolset.
What We're Looking For
We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our passionate, lean, agile, fast-growing, evolving, and tech-loving team on a permanent basis. The projects we are working on are innovative and will change the fast-casual dining experience forever.
Living the Nando’s Values
As a Nandoca, you'll embody the values that make Nando’s unique. We are looking for people who:
- Pride – Take ownership of their work, hold themselves to high standards, and care deeply about delivering quality outcomes.
- Passion – Bring energy, curiosity, and enthusiasm to solving problems and creating great customer experiences.
- Courage – Challenge the status quo, embrace change, and make informed decisions, even when faced with uncertainty.
- Integrity – Act with honesty, transparency, and accountability in everything they do.
- Family – Collaborate openly, support teammates, and contribute to an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.
These values shape how we work together, make decisions, and build technology that moves Nando’s forward.
The Role
As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining innovative solutions using the latest tools and technologies.
Software Engineers work in conjunction with Technical Leads, focusing on delivering through the entire technical stack — whether backend services, systems integrations, or rich user interfaces.
You will relish tackling and solving tough problems and seek to expand your skillset while increasing your influence across new technologies. Advancement opportunities are key, and we will continue investing in you through training, conferences, and growth initiatives.
You will be comfortable working independently on both backend and frontend tasks and can facilitate effective, collaborative sessions with peers to ensure we deliver the right solutions efficiently.
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You’ll engage with our build pipelines and infrastructure, optimizing performance and troubleshooting issues to maintain continued reliability.
Passionate about driving Nando’s forward, you will become a champion of best practices, coding standards, and innovation. You’ll lead by example — rolling up your sleeves in the code, inspiring colleagues, and delivering high-quality software daily.
About the USA Tech Team
Our team’s primary goal is to expand the world-class digital experiences our UK and Irish customers enjoy across the USA. We deliver this across the entire online ordering stack, including:
- Locate – Discovering restaurant capabilities during online ordering and third-party integrations, ensuring customers and partner systems understand what our restaurants can offer.
- Menu – Supporting the business in digitally presenting menu items with a seamless, accurate digital experience.
- Payment – Managing all eCommerce financing, where integrating with our payment provider is critical.
- Orders – Handling the end-to-end process of taking, processing, and tracking orders to ensure they reach the right restaurant accurately and on time.
- Loyalty – Rewarding customer loyalty, building programmes and integrations that recognize and retain them.
- Identity – Managing user sign-ups, logins, and recognition across digital experiences, ensuring security and seamless experiences.
Our frontend applications tie these domains together across web and app platforms, delivering a comprehensive, rich, and consistent customer experience.
As part of our team, you will play a crucial role in developing and enhancing these technologies. Your focus is on end-to-end projects, including APIs and frontend integrations across platforms like web and app.
Collaboration within these domains is fundamental: you will work closely with other Customer Digital teams to ensure seamless integration and high-performing systems that reflect our customer-centric vision.
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Key Responsibilities
- Actively collaborate with all disciplines across the team.
- Pair mentoring across specialities, pushing improvements in workflows and team mattering deliveries.
- Provide technical backlog prioritization input.
- Develop end-to-end and unit test coverage, enhancing codebase robustness and quality.
- Maintain production services, ensuring reliable monitoring and alerting strategies — if you build it, you run it.
- Optimize and support release pipelines, troubleshooting build failures for peers.
Skills Required
- Proven proficiency in one of the main programming languages — Rust, Golang, or TypeScript (essential).
- Experience with React & React Native (highly desirable).
- Prior works with Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform, and Okta (highly desirable).
- Ability to demonstrate agile practices, breaking down complex epics/features and estimating effort accurately.
- A track record of working with multiple tech stacks and languages.
- Enthusiasm for integrating AI into the development workflow.
- Strong ability to articulate technical topics with clear customer benefits in mind.
- Effective stakeholder engagement and leadership in third-party technical integration discussions.
Everyone is Welcome
At Nando’s, we embrace diversity as the core of our strength. Inspired by our Southern African roots, we actively celebrate and value the richness multiculture brings to Nando’s.
We are fully committed to an inclusive, respectful culture for all: employees, partners, suppliers, customers, and communities. We foster an environment where every individual is respected and empowered to achieve their potential, regardless of background or perspective.
We actively encourage applications from a diverse range of individuals and consider reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to help candidates perform at their best.
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