Manager, Engineering - Drive Thru Orchestration Service

McDonald’s Corporation

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Work type
On-site
Location
Chicago, Illinois
Salary
$152,678–$190,847 / yr
Posted
4 days ago
Nearby
99+ roles within 25 mi

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Below market

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This role $172k
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About McDonald’s Corporation

McDonald’s Corporation is the world's largest fast-food chain by revenue, operating over 40,000 locations in more than 100 countries.

McDonald’s Corporation currently has 76 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Manager, Engineering - Drive Thru Orchestration Service

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As a Senior Manager of Engineering for the Drive Thru Orchestration Service, you will lead a team responsible for developing and maintaining a scalable, AI-ready platform that enhances customer ordering experiences across thousands of restaurant locations. Your daily tasks include overseeing the migration from legacy systems to an API-first architecture, building a decoupled event-driven orchestration layer, and ensuring seamless integration with menu, cart, payment, and fulfillment services. You will work extensively with technologies such as .NET Proxy rewrite, WebSocket audio integration, and canonical data models while fostering a culture of innovation within your team. Essential skills include experience in software engineering, platform development, event-driven architectures, API design, and cloud-native platforms, along with strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration abilities.

Skills

Kubernetes Docker AWS Azure Google Cloud CI/CD Python Java .NET GraphQL REST WebSocket Event Sourcing Telemetry Monitoring API Gateway Immutable Data Structures Cloud-Native Architecture Microservices Messaging Queues Terraform

What you'll do

  • Lead the development and oversight of Drive Thru Orchestration Service for high availability.
  • Build and deploy a decoupled, event-driven orchestration platform with menu and payment services.
  • Coordinate migration from legacy systems to modern API-first architecture.
  • Ensure robust error handling and multi-region deployment in the orchestration platform.
  • Manage project delivery, prioritization, and cross-functional dependencies for timely execution.

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience with progressive leadership roles.
  • 3+ years leading teams developing distributed services or APIs at scale.
  • Strong expertise in event-driven architectures, API development, and cloud-native platforms.
  • Proven track record managing complex migrations and driving architectural modernization.
  • Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership skills for technical projects.

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