Sr Software Engineer

About the Role & Team

“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!

We are the "one-stop shop" for external clients approved to sell the magical Disney products. Our team focuses on delivering outstanding Application Programming Interfaces – API, that allows third party companies sell the magical Disney products such as Resort Accommodation, Theme Park Tickets and our world-class Dining experience across our Walt Disney World and Disneyland facilities.

We are responsible for the end-to-end digital experience for all clients, and we always stay one step ahead with innovations and pioneer many initiatives in the industry! This role sits in the core Sales platform in commerce space. We work closely with a team with multidimensional strengths of engineers and service owners from across the company.

The Software Engineer will report to the Manager-Technology.

What You Will Do

The Senior Software Engineer applies practical knowledge of development and engineering to conceive, design, develop, test, and implement software fixes, improvements, components, and/or new software systems and applications of moderate complexity. The Engineer focuses on designing, coding and develops highly scalable software systems in a designated functional focus area(s) under minimal direction.

Primary responsibilities

• Complete assigned component level software development and fixes using new or existing technologies.

• Participates in developing specifications for assigned components, projects, and fixes.

• Providing technical direction and evaluating the quality of work from vendors.

• Ability to articulate to both technical and business users and the ability to gracefully handle hard-working conversations.

• Coordinating, influencing and mentoring collaborative project teams, inclusive of on-shore and off-shore development resources, key clients, and other technical groups in the organization

• Participating in the design process of new features and improvements to the software platform.

• Strong practice of agile development in a collaborative, dynamic team environment.

• Highly flexible to constantly evolving business needs and adoption of new technologies.

• Ability to build and maintain documentation, procedures, and work instructions for development or operations team.

• Working closely with the Quality Engineers, Project Management and Business teams on solution implementation.

• Adhering to technical development processes, standard and software engineering best practices.

• Ensuring a process orientation across the technical/project team, being able to develop, implement and improve processes.

• Working independently and delivering on agreed upon timelines.

• Responsible for Release Management, Service Management and build configuration in highly coordinated environment while using DevOps tools like Jenkins, Rundeck, API gateways, AppDynamics and Splunk.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• A minimum of 5+ years of software development experience

• Experience collecting, reviewing and updating requirements and/or user stories.

• Experience writing technical documentation and providing engineering deliverables.

• Providing technical leadership, able to encourage and mentor technical members to perform at their highest potential.

• Experience with SCRUM and other Agile development practices.

Significant knowledge/experience in relevant technologies:

• Java

• AWS – Lambda, SQS, S3, API Gateway, CloudWatch

• Web Services (SOAP & REST)

• JSON

• Software Performance Optimization (memory, CPU, scaling, etc...)

• Message Queues

• HTTP Protocol

• SQL

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven understanding of micro-services

• RESTful Web Services or APIs using Spring boot, Spring Cloud Function, JPA, JAXB

• Experience with event driven architecture, including technologies such as JMS, RabbitMQ, Kafka, and similar solutions.

• Experience with source control and build deploy tools such as Git, Git Prime, Sonar Jenkins, Maven, CICD.

• Experience with MySQL, Aurora, Oracle, Maria relational Databases.

Education

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

#DISNEYTECH

#LI-SG2

The hiring range for this position in Glendale, CA is $136,038.00 to $182,492.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.