Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer - Accounting, Banking and Property Nando’s has been in the UK and Ireland since 1992 and we’ve grown from a single takeaway store in Ealing, London to over 500 restaurants across all locations. Originally started in Johannesburg, South Africa, we pride ourselves on creating memorable experiences for everyone involved in Nando’s: from our employees, communities, founders and suppliers, but most importantly, our customers. Whilst we always look back on our history and story with pride, the story is still evolving. We have recently been growing our digital capabilities to ensure the Nando’s experience remains relevant to modern-day customers. You will be joining a tech team that has grown in the past few years and is determined to enable change within the restaurant industry by bringing innovative thinking and the latest technology tools and practices to solve some of its most complex problems. The Accounting, Banking and Property (ABP) team ABP supports the Finance and Property departments by maintaining and administrating key applications such as Rydoo, Unit4, Cash Up App and Anaplan. ABP also builds and maintains integrations between these applications, our data lake and pipelines for processing financial and property data. With Finance, our continued mission is to transform and modernise their financial processes, be that via in-house implementation or 3rd party integration when appropriate. With Property, we are moving forward with supporting their goals around sustainability and efficient operation. The team's tech stack mainly consists of backend services written in Python & Golang with a few frontend services written in typescript using the Next.js framework. These are deployed as Cloud Run services and Cloud Functions in GCP. Our infrastructure is all maintained via terraform. Stakeholders Wider operations business - all of our restaurants that will use systems built and engineered by you. Finance (Cash & Banking, Purchase Ledger, etc.) Property Product Head of Technology & Engineering Third party suppliers Responsibilities Our Engineers have the opportunity to work on a variety of projects across a wide range of products that enable us to operate our restaurants business efficiently and provide customers with a great experience. As a Nando's Senior Software Engineer, you will allow each solution to drive the technology choice, not the other way around. You will be technology agnostic and choose the right tool for the job. Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services-from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement. Mentor and coach junior engineers to aid career progression and personal development Develop services and user interfaces through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health. If you build it, you run it. Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems Skills required Proficiency in programming languages such as; Golang, Python, Typescript Proven experience working as a Software Engineer, preferably at a senior level Proven experience of agile practices Interest in designing, analysing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive Aptitude to understand and help provide solutions for issues that our Accounting, Banking and Property stakeholders face Ability to debug and optimise code and automate routine tasks Everyone is Welcome At Nando’s, everyone is welcome. Inspired by our Southern African heritage we know and value the richness that diversity brings to Nando’s. We’re committed to creating an inclusive and respectful culture for all; including our existing and future Nandocas, partners and suppliers, customers and the communities we are a part of. We deliberately work hard to create an environment where every individual is valued, respected and can flourish regardless of who they are, their background or outlook on life. We welcome applications from a diverse range of individuals and will consider any reasonable adjustments in order to enable candidates to perform as well as possible during the recruitment process

Location: London, GB

Posted Date: 4/28/2025