Software Engineer III (iOS)
Date: Aug 17, 2026
Location: Chicago, IL, US, 60607
Company: McDonald's Corporation
Company Description:
McDonald’s growth strategy, Accelerating the Arches, encompasses all aspects of our business as the leading global omni-channel restaurant brand. As the consumer landscape shifts we are using our competitive advantages to further strengthen our brand. One of our core growth strategies is to Double Down on the 3Ds (Delivery, Digital and Drive Thru). McDonald’s will accelerate technology innovation so 65M+ customers a day will experience a fast, easy experience, whether at one of our 25,000 and growing Drive thrus, through McDelivery, dine-in or takeaway.
McDonald’s Global Technology is here to power tomorrow’s feel-good moments.
That’s why you’ll find us at the forefront of transformative technology, exploring new and innovative ways to serve our millions of customers and spread happiness one delicious Hot Fudge Sundae-dipped fry at a time. Using AI, robotics and emerging tech, we’re digitizing the Golden Arches. Combine that with our unparalleled global scale, and we’re reshaping all areas of the business, industry and every community that is home to a McDonald’s restaurant. We face complex tech challenges every day. But that’s where our diverse and talented teams come in. They’re made up of the best and brightest from all over the globe, and they thrive in the space where feel-good meets fast-paced.
Check out the McDonald’s Global Technology Technical Blog to learn how technology and our global team are directly enabling the Accelerating the Arches strategy.
Department Overview
In this strategy and transformation focused role, you'll write maintainable code, collaborate with engineers, and grow through feedback. You'll be involved in all stages of the agile development life cycle, improve app performance, and ensure the best use of network, CPU, and memory. With a passion for quality, you'll focus on security and privacy for our customers. You'll work in an agile, startup-like environment, always prioritizing the most important tasks.
Responsibilities
• Write robust and maintainable code.
• Provide guidance on design making sure all business requirements are addressed
• Collaborate with other engineers, be mentor that actively helps the team in development and best practices. Assist the team when blocked, and drive them towards a decision, managing divergent views.
• Collaborate within a development team, assisting end to end. Contribute to all aspects of the agile development life cycle including design, development, documentation, testing and operations. Always seeking to improve the team velocity through leadership.
• Ensure quality through automation testing and unit testing, maintaining and improving the code coverage.
• Improve the app using profilers, ensuring the best use of network, CPU and memory.
• Provide guidance on NFR.
• Have a passion for quality making sure the team adheres to acceptance criteria, focusing on security and privacy for our customers. Leading the team in the RCA of issues.
• Continuously improves the logging and monitor metrics in the app, delivering always feel-good moments to our customers.
• Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important priorities. Steer and communicate early when priorities and/or delivery times overlap. Build relationships outside of the team and showcases the team skills in engineering team.
• Model your team based on McDonald’s company values, fostering growth on the development team through constructive feedback and concrete goals.
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field or equivalent years of experience.
• At least 5 or more years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Programming experience with Swift, Objective-C and iOS platform frameworks (UIKit, SwiftUI, Foundation, Combine).
• B2 English proficiency, written and spoken is required.
• Experience with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Analysis, design implementation, testing, evolution.
• Experience with Unit testing.
• Experience on version control tools, mainly focused on Git.
• Solid knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals (object-oriented paradigm, design patterns, data structures and algorithms).
• Solution-oriented attitude and ability to solve tough problems in a collaborative, cross functional, and fast-paced environment.
• Experience debugging production applications, using native tools (Instruments, Xcode profilers) as well as third party tools (New Relic, SonarQube, DataDog, etc).
• Passion for customer experience.
• Commitment on security and privacy when coding.
• Uncompromising attention to detail, passion for quality and drive to continuously improve the product.
• Demonstrated leadership abilities in an engineering environment in driving operational excellence and best practices.
Compensation
Bonus Eligible: YES
Long - Term Incentive: YES
Benefits Eligible: YES
Salary Range
The expected salary range for this role is $138,207.00 - $172,758.00 per year
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we may also consider your experience, and other job-related factors.
Additional Information:
Benefits eligible: This position offers health and welfare benefits, including but not limited to comprehensive health insurance, which includes medical, prescription drug, mental health, dental and vision coverage, as well as, life insurance.
Bonus eligible: This position is eligible for a bonus, calculated based on individual and company performance.
Long term Incentive eligible: This position is eligible for stock or other equity grants pursuant to McDonald’s long-term incentive plan.
McDonald’s is an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of our workforce. We promote an inclusive work environment that creates feel-good moments for everyone. McDonald’s provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities as part of the application or hiring process or to perform the essential functions of their job. If you need assistance accessing or reading this job posting or otherwise feel you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process, please contact mcdhrbenefits@us.mcd.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
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