Senior Software Engineer - RUST - Contract

Overall Ambition

Solve some of today's most complex hospitality challenges by creating innovative, scalable technology using a modern, open technology stack. Help shape the technical direction of our products while delivering exceptional customer experiences across the USA.

What We're Looking For

We're looking for a Contract Senior Software Engineer to join our passionate, lean, agile, fast-growing and evolving technology team on a permanent basis.

You'll be an experienced engineer who enjoys solving difficult technical problems, building highly scalable systems and helping those around you become better engineers. You'll be comfortable owning complex initiatives from design through to production, influencing technical direction and driving engineering excellence across multiple teams.

You'll remain hands-on whilst acting as a trusted technical leader within the team.

Living the Nando's Values

As a Nandoca, you'll embody the values that make Nando's unique. We're looking for people who demonstrate:

• Pride – Take ownership of complex technical challenges, maintain high engineering standards and consistently deliver high-quality software.
• Passion – Bring curiosity, enthusiasm and a continuous learning mindset to solving customer problems and improving engineering practices.
• Courage – Challenge existing approaches, embrace change and confidently make informed technical decisions.
• Integrity – Act with honesty, transparency and accountability in every interaction and technical decision.
• Family – Support, mentor and collaborate with teammates, helping create an inclusive culture where everyone can do their best work.

The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll design, build, deploy and operate high-quality software across our digital platform whilst helping shape the technical direction of the products you support.

You'll partner closely with Technical Leads, Product Managers and fellow engineers to solve complex business problems, influence architectural decisions and ensure our platforms remain scalable, resilient and secure.

You'll be trusted to independently lead large technical initiatives, mentor engineers across the team and champion engineering best practice.

You'll be comfortable working across the full technology stack, whether that's backend services, APIs, integrations, infrastructure or frontend applications.

You'll also:

• Lead technical discovery and solution design for complex initiatives.
• Break down large technical problems into achievable deliverables.
• Drive engineering quality through code reviews, testing strategies and technical standards.
• Coach and mentor engineers through pairing, technical guidance and knowledge sharing.
• Own production services throughout their lifecycle using a "You build it, you run it" mindset.
• Identify opportunities to improve architecture, developer experience and platform reliability.
• Contribute to engineering strategy alongside Technical Leads and Principal Engineers.
• Champion the effective use of AI-assisted engineering tools to improve delivery while maintaining engineering quality.

About the USA Tech Team

Our team's objective is to bring the same high-quality digital experience that customers enjoy in the UK and Ireland to customers across the USA.

To achieve this, we build and evolve the services powering our customer journeys across:

• Locate
• Menu
• Payments
• Orders
• Loyalty
• Identity
• Web & Mobile Applications

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll play a key role in designing and delivering solutions that span these domains.

You'll work on end-to-end initiatives, designing APIs, integrating distributed systems and building customer-facing experiences that are scalable, resilient and easy to evolve.