Sr Manager, Engineering

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Date: Oct 13, 2025

Location: Chicago, IL, US, 60607

Company: McDonald's Corporation

Company Description: 

McDonald’s is proud to be one of the most recognized brands in the world, with restaurants in over 100 countries that serve 70 million customers daily. We continue to operate from a position of strength. Our updated growth strategy is focused on staying ahead of what our customers want and realizing further growth potential. Our relentless ambition is why McDonald’s remains one of the world’s leading corporations after almost 70 years. Joining McDonald's means thinking big and preparing for a career that can have influence around the world. 

At McDonald’s, we see every day as a chance to create positive impact. We lead through our values centered on inclusivity, service, integrity, community and family. From support of Ronald McDonald House Charities to our Youth Opportunity project and sustainability initiatives, our values keep us dedicated to using our scale for good: good for our customers, people, industry and planet. We also offer a broad range of outstanding benefits including a sabbatical program, tuition assistance and flexible work arrangements. 

Department Overview

The Commercial Product & Platform team develops global technology products and platforms that delight our customers and enable placing orders to restaurants reliably and effectively.

Duties

This role will lead the design and architecture of our Global Web Application (McDonald’s new e-commerce website), ensuring they align with product vision and goals, scalability, and performance requirements. In this role, you'll work with cross-functional teams, such as product managers, designers, solution architects, developers, and external vendors, to define and implement a robust global web strategy. This Sr. Tech Lead will report to the Director Technical Lead over Global Web.

 

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced technology leader to help craft the transformation and define the technology direction of the Global Web Application.

 

Job Duties: 

  • Lead a team of React/NextJS and C# engineers dedicated to the Global Web Application product by providing technical guidance during agile sprint ceremonies and day to day interactions.
  • Responsible for helping the team design and estimate implementation tasks, lead implementation work streams, and mentor junior team members. 
  • Provide direction on architecture approach, application implementation guidance, and design decisions to be flexible to accommodate current business needs and future changing requirements, ensuring minimal complexity with code and design.
  • Partner with key stakeholders, such as Product Management, Solution Architecture, Data & Analytics, Cloud Ops, and Security, to align technology strategies with product roadmaps. It involves defining platform architecture, setting technical requirements, setting quality and scalability metrics, guiding decisions on architecture, system design, and technical strategy, including cloud platform services, and assuring the technology stack supports the product objectives.
  • Participate in release preparation, planning, and deployment.
  • Support the hiring and professional development of engineers in partnership with the Delivery Office as needed.
  • You will also be responsible for the quality of the deliverables and lead your team in web standards, code reviews, product demos, and other presentations to develop your leadership skills.

Qualifications

  • Requires minimum Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or related technology field.
  • Requires 5+ years of progressively responsible IT leadership experience.
  • Requires 2+ years experience with NextJS application framework
  • Experience leading the development and implementation of scalable and high-performance web applications using Next.js, React, and related front-end technologies.
  • Experience with Cloud Native technologies (Amazon Web Services preferred, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform).
  • Experience using the following software development tools
    • Centralized version control: GitHub or BitBucket (GitHub preferred)
    • CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins or something similar
  • Well-versed in key architecture concepts and principles, including Domain-Driven Design, Microservices, REST APIs, etc.
  • Experience working in an agile environment.
  • Experience dealing with the security and compliance side of software development.
  • Experienced with owning quality and best practices in automation and testing.
  • Experienced with building out and maintaining metrics, alarms, and monitoring services.
  • (Bonus) Knowledge of web content management systems like Adobe Experience Manager.

Compensation

Bonus Eligible: Yes

Long - Term Incentive: Yes

Benefits Eligible: Yes

Salary Range

The expected salary range for this role is $149,260.00 - $190,310.00 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.

Competencies

Execution Proficiency
Background & Values
Strategic Proficiency
Building Blocks
Talent Proficiency

Additional Information: 

Benefits eligible: This position offers health and welfare benefits, a 401(k) plan, adoption assistance program, educational assistance program, flexible ways of working, and time off policies (including sick leave, parental leave, and vacation/PTO). Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on job classification and length of employment.  

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. McDonald’s Restaurants of California will consider qualified applicants for employment with arrest or conviction records in accordance with applicable laws, including the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring and the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers. 

McDonald’s provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin, age, disability status, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, protected military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. 

Nothing in this job posting or description should be construed as an offer or guarantee of employment. 


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