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The projects we are working on are innovative and\nwill change the fast-casual dining experience forever.\nAs a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, deploying and\nmaintaining innovative solutions using the latest tools and technologies. Software Engineers\nwork in conjunction with Technical Leads and focus on delivering through the entire technical\nstack: be that backend services, systems integrations or rich user interfaces.\nYou will relish tackling and solving tough problems and be looking to expand your skillset and\nincrease your influence across new technologies. We will continue investing in you through\ntraining, conferences and great opportunities for advancement as we grow our team.\nYou'll be comfortable working independently on backend and frontend tickets and can run\neffective sessions with peers on your team to ensure we're delivering the right thing in the right\nway. You will work with our build pipelines and infrastructure at a level where you can configure,\noptimise and troubleshoot for continued reliability and performance.\nYou'll be passionate about moving Nando's forward and be a champion of best practices,\npatterns, processes and tech. You will lead by example: getting your hands dirty in the code,\ninspiring your peers & delivering quality software every day.\nAbout the Locate, Payment and Menu Team\nOur team brings together three critical domains of the Nando’s eCommerce platform. The Locate\ndomain is key to discovering restaurant capabilities during online ordering and third-party\nintegrations, helping communicate to our customers and other systems what a restaurant can\noffer. The Menu domain’s primary objective is to support the business in presenting menu items\ndigitally, effectively translating the physical menu into a seamless digital experience. The\nPayment domain covers everything related to getting money in for our eCommerce journeys,\nmaking integration with our payment provider a critical responsibility.\nAs a member of our team, you will play a crucial role in developing and enhancing the digital\nexperience across these domains. Your primary responsibility will be to work on end-to-end\nprojects, providing APIs and connecting them with the frontend experience on both web and app\nplatforms. Collaboration with other domain teams within the Customer Digital space will be a key\naspect of your role, ensuring smooth integration and leveraging collective expertise to deliver the\noverall customer experience. You will be responsible for developing elegant solutions to match\nmulti-variant business requirements and building high-throughput systems to support our\noperations.\nResponsibilities:\nOur Engineers have the opportunity to work on a variety of projects across a wide range of\nproducts that enable us to operate our restaurants business efficiently and provide customers\nwith a great experience.\nActively collaborate with other members of the team across all disciplines\nRoutinely pair across disciplines and drive improvements in the team ways of\nworking\nSupport backlog priority decisions with technical input\nDevelop E2E and unit test coverage, actively work to increase the robustness,\nquality, and number of tests within our codebase alongside feature development\nMaintain services once in production and ensure a robust monitoring and alerting\nstrategy is in place (and create one if not). 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