Lead Software Engineer

“We Power the Magic!” That’s our motto at Disney Experiences Technology & Digital.

Our team creates world-class immersive digital experiences for the Company’s premier vacation brands including Disney’s Parks & Resorts worldwide, Disney Cruise Line, Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa, and Disney Vacation Club.

We are responsible for the end-to-end digital and physical Guest experience for all technology & digital-led initiatives across the Attractions & Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Resorts & Transportation and Merchandise lines of business as well as other initiatives including MyDisneyExperience and Hey, Disney!

What You’ll Do

The Lead Software Engineer applies practical knowledge of development and engineering to conceive, design, develop, test, and implement software fixes, enhancements, components, and/or new software systems and applications of moderate to high complexity. The Lead Software Engineer owns design and development and drives development of components through their own and subordinate engineers’ work. The Lead Engineer provides technical guidance and acts as a point of escalation and technical expert. The Lead Software Engineer designs and develops highly scalable software systems and applications. 

• Owns the design and development of software fixes, enhancements, components, capabilities, and/or new software systems and applications 

• Drives development of components through own and subordinate engineers' work 

• Develops technical solutions that meet specifications and that impact future developments 

• Executes assigned capability level software development projects and major fixes using new or existing technologies 

• Develops specifications for assigned components, projects or fixes 

• Leads programming, testing and debugging of applications or fixes to existing applications 

• Creates protocols, documentation and tools for installation and maintenance 

• Sets the architectural direction for software development projects 

• Designs specific components for assigned projects, developing specifications for each 

• Designs, develops, manages, creates and maintains technical components and templates 

• Codes against front-end technology stack and lead end-to-end troubleshooting 

• Interacts and coordinates deliverables with other technical groups in the organization 

• Executes assigned capability level projects using new or existing technologies 

• Designs and develops specifications for assigned projects 

• Reviews or troubleshoots and performs testing 

• Conceives and sets the architectural direction for development projects 

• Designs the component tasks of assigned projects, developing specifications for each 

• Serves as a high-level technical resource and “go-to” person for less experienced developers, providing technical guidance and oversight 

• Leads team members in problem analysis and issue resolution 

• Recommends improvements to processes, technology, and interfaces that improve the effectiveness of the team 

• Work with Product, Creative, and Technology partners to develop web applications 

• Engineer solutions, code web applications, resolve defects, performance tune, and deploy code 

• Participate in team scrums and other agile process/ceremony 

Required Qualifications & Skills

• 7+ years of progressively related experience in design, development, and implementation of highly scalable, high-volume software systems and components, client-facing web applications, and major Internet-oriented applications and systems 

• Experience with Java development frameworks & tools, such as JetBrains and Eclipse 

• Experience with Java, Spring, Splunk, Swagger/OpenAPI, and REST 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with current Spring versions 

• Experience with DevOps, toolchains, pipelines, Git, and bundling tools 

• Experience with AWS and AWS serverless 

• Experience with Angular, Flutter, and/or other modern app/web development frameworks 

• Experience with GCP and GCP Serverless 

• Experience with LaunchDarkly, Harness, and/or GitOps

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study and/or equivalent work experience