Coca-Cola

Software Engineer I

Coca-Cola$124K — $148K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2-5 years of software engineering experience
  • Experience building and shipping production-grade applications
  • Proficiency in modern programming languages and frameworks (both frontend and backend)
  • Experience working with APIs, distributed systems, and cloud environments

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Product Management and Design to understand customer problems and workflows
  • Contribute to solution discovery through ideation, prototyping, and evaluation
  • Guide the technical direction, architecture, and system design for product areas
  • Deliver high-quality solutions focusing on performance, reliability, and scalability
  • Define and track success metrics in partnership with Product and Data
  • Promote engineering standards and best practices across teams
  • Support a culture of continuous learning and improvement

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Retirement savings plan with company match
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • Relocation assistance available
Full Job Description
Job Description Summary:

As a Software Engineer, you will be a core contributor on an empowered product team, working closely with Product Management, Design, and fellow Engineers to build high-quality software that solves real customer problems. This role is for engineers who want to grow their craft, develop strong product instincts, and contribute to solutions-not just execute tasks.

What You Will Work On

At Coca-Cola, engineers have the opportunity to build products at meaningful scale-shaping the digital experiences, platforms, and intelligent systems that power how we serve customers, enable field teams and partners, support sales, and drive transaction growth across one of the world's most recognized brands. Depending on the team, you could work on connected service tools that improve resolution speed and reliability, data and API platforms that unlock growth and decisioning, customer and operational experiences that reduce friction across workflows, or sales products that equip teams with better visibility, insights, and execution capabilities. This is a chance to join at a pivotal moment: helping define modern engineering practices, influence product direction, and build high-impact solutions in empowered, cross-functional teams where your work directly connects to business performance and customer outcomes

How We Work

You'll be part of a dedicated, cross-functional team (Product, Design, Engineering) that is:
  • Empowered to solve problems, not just build features
  • Accountable for outcomes, not output
  • Collaborative by default, from discovery through delivery
  • Continuously learning, using data and customer insight to improve


Key Responsibilities

Partner in Discovery & Solution Shaping
  • Partner with Product Management and Product Design to deeply understand customer problems, workflows, and pain points
  • Contribute to solution discovery, including ideation, prototyping, and evaluating multiple approaches
  • Bring a technical perspective to help the team identify what is feasible, what is valuable, and what is worth building
  • Challenge assumptions and propose alternative solutions that are simpler, faster, or more impactful


Lead Technical Direction for the Team
  • Guide the technical approach, architecture, and system design for your product area
  • Make pragmatic tradeoffs between speed, scalability, maintainability, and cost
  • Ensure alignment with broader platform and enterprise architecture where appropriate
  • Identify and manage technical risks early, surfacing tradeoffs clearly to partners


Own End-to-End Engineering Outcomes
  • Deliver high-quality solutions that meet standards for performance, reliability, security, and scalability
  • Ensure strong engineering practices, including testing, observability, and CI/CD
  • Maintain a high bar for code quality and system design through reviews and hands-on contribution
  • Drive continuous improvement of the product through iteration, feedback, and learning


Own Outcome-Oriented Delivery
  • Partner with Product and Data to define and track success metrics and outcomes
  • Focus on delivering meaningful impact, not just completing work
  • Use data, customer feedback, and experimentation to guide decisions and prioritize improvements
  • Balance short-term delivery with long-term product and technical health


Contribute to a Strong Engineering Culture
  • Help evolve engineering standards, patterns, and best practices across teams
  • Promote a culture of pragmatism, simplicity, and high-quality execution
  • Collaborate with other tech leads to ensure consistency and leverage shared solutions where appropriate


What We're Looking For
  • Strong full stack engineering skills (frontend + backend, APIs, modern architectures)
  • Product mindset: Cares about users, outcomes, and why things are built
  • Technical judgment: Makes smart tradeoffs, avoids over-engineering
  • Ownership: Takes initiative and influences decisions
  • Collaboration: Works effectively with product managers and designers


Key Qualifications
  • 2-5 years of software engineering experience
  • Experience building and shipping production-grade applications
  • Proficiency in modern programming languages and frameworks (frontend and backend)
  • Experience working with APIs, distributed systems, and cloud environments


Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience working on cross-functional product teams (Product, Design, Engineering)
  • Experience contributing to product discovery or solution design, not just delivery
  • Track record of technical leadership within a team (formal or informal)
  • Exposure to data-driven, automation, or AI enabled systems
  • Experience with enterprise platforms or large-scale distributed systems
  • Experience building customer-facing products
  • Familiarity with modern engineering practices (CI/CD, testing, observability)


Education
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
  • Equivalent practical experience is equally valued


Who Thrives Here

Engineers who:
  • Are curious about customers and how products create value
  • Enjoy collaborating and debating ideas across disciplines
  • Take pride in both what they build and why it matters


Who This Role Is Not For

This role may not be the right fit if you:
  • Prefer working from detailed requirements with limited ambiguity
  • Want to focus primarily on coding without engaging in product decisions
  • Are most comfortable in highly structured, delivery-driven environments


The Coca-Cola Company will not offer sponsorship for employment status (including, but not limited to, H1-B visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and must not require The Coca-Cola Company's sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States.

Skills:
Agile Methodology, Business Requirements, Communication, Computer Programming, Configuring (Inactive), Data Analysis, Financial Processing, Information Systems, Software Development, Structured Query Language (SQL), Systems Analysis, Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Teamwork, Test Environments, Troubleshooting, Waterfall Model, Workflow Management

Pay Range:
United States of America: 124,600 USD - 148,200 USD

Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.

Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:
15

Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target.

Location(s):
United States of America

City/Cities:
Atlanta

Travel Required:
00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:
Yes

Job Posting End Date:
June 24, 2026

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