Pizza Hut Digital & Technology

Overview of job

Associate Manager, Software Engineer – (Full Stack Lead)

We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Associate Manager, Full Stack Lead to lead the architecture, delivery, and evolution of critical restaurant technology platforms supporting KFC operations and team member experiences.

In this role, you will lead engineers while defining technical direction across multiple systems and initiatives. You will ensure the successful delivery of scalable, cloud-native solutions supporting key operational capabilities including training and assessment systems, compliance tracking, restaurant monitoring, virtual assessments, and intelligent action platforms for restaurant managers.

You will collaborate with international teams, drive platform architecture decisions, and foster a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and drive the technical vision, architecture, and engineering standards across multiple systems and teams.
• Lead, mentor, and grow engineers while building strong technical leadership and team capability.
• Own end-to-end delivery of critical platform capabilities supporting restaurant operations (training, compliance, monitoring, intelligent actions).
• Translate business needs into scalable technical solutions, architecture, and execution plans.
• Ensure delivery of high-quality, reliable, and scalable full-stack systems.
• Drive development of secure, high-performance APIs and distributed systems.
• Lead system design and operations on AWS with strong focus on CI/CD, observability, and reliability.
• Ensure high availability, performance, and operational excellence at scale.
• Collaborate with product, operations, and global teams to align priorities and drive outcomes.
• Influence decisions and drive alignment across cross-functional and distributed teams.
• Identify platform gaps and lead continuous improvement, simplification, and innovation initiatives.
• Foster a culture of ownership, engineering excellence, and continuous improvement.

Attractive Benefits:

• 100% salary during probation period
• Annual Leave: 18 days/ year
• Five “Recharge Days” – Extra days, in addition to company holidays.
• Flexible Friday afternoon
• Full salary insurance
• 13th-month bonus
• 1 day off for birthday
• Advanced health insurance (Generali)
• Regular engagement activities: sport clubs, internal events…
• Support Macbook and Monitor

Core Skills:

• Strong expertise in Java (Spring Boot), ReactJS, and React Native for building scalable full-stack applications.
• Deep understanding of microservices, REST APIs, distributed systems, and event-driven architecture.
• Proven ability to design and optimize data models across PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, DocumentDB).
• Hands-on experience building cloud-native systems on AWS (EKS, Lambda) with CI/CD and observability practices.
• Ability to define technical vision and drive architecture across multiple systems and teams.
• Proven leadership in delivering large-scale, cross-functional platform initiatives end-to-end.
• Strong experience in mentoring engineers and growing technical leadership within teams.
• Strong English communication and influencing skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Bonus Skills:

• Experience building mobile applications using React Native.
• Experience designing data pipelines and operational analytics systems.
• Experience integrating with restaurant hardware or IoT devices.