Job Description

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Company Description

McD Tech Labs is the recently established Silicon Valley based technology development group within McDonalds Corporation. Our mission is to deliver advanced technology solutions that address real-world, data-driven needs in the McDonalds Restaurant environment. We are focused on using state-of-the-art Machine Learning, AI, and related technologies along with McDonalds unparalleled scale to completely transform the customer experience!

Job Description
We are currently looking for talented Backend Engineers to work on the transformative in-store AI Drive Through Voice Agent product. The core responsibility of this role is to architect efficient, modular, reliable and scalable AI Voice Agent in the restaurants. The backend work focuses on core logic of the AI product, microservices, distributed processing, telemetry, and scalability of a product and platform that will reach 10s of millions of customers per day.

Responsibilities:

* Develop and maintain core Voice Agent microservice stack

* Own core application and related tooling, focusing on the system's integration, configuration, lifecycle and event management

* Enable modular, testable and scalable deployment through continuous refactoring of core applications

* Keep and push for the high bar of development best practices: test coverage, design patterns, documentation and self-documenting code

* Address core design and stability issues across the stack and platform

* Educate engineering teams on best practices and methodologies, and where possible, automate enforcement and migrate existing code to ensure compliance

Qualifications
Required Qualifications:

* BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field, or equivalent experience

* 3+ years of experience in Linux environments with good understanding of Linux processes.

* 3+ years of professional experience developing backend/server technologies in Python or Java (or equivalent language)

* Strong experience in high performance, server and service programming, e.g. distributed, multi-threaded programming writing network clients and coordinating high throughput inter-process communication

* Quick learner with grit

Desired Qualifications

* Experience in containers- and Kubernetes-based development

* Experience in shell scripting and cross-language system development

Additional Information
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