Lead Software Engineer

About the position

We Power the Magic! That's our motto at Disney Experiences (DX). 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! This role sits in the Disney Signature Experience organization within Technology & Digital for Disney Experiences. It works closely with Adventures by Disney and National Geographic Expeditions (A&E). The lead software engineer will report to the James Girtman.

Responsibilities

• Own the analysis, design, program, debugging, and modifications of software improvements and/or new products used in local, networked, cloud-based, or Internet-related computer programs
• Lead projects that may be used in commercial and end-user applications or focus on software and tools supporting infrastructure and technology platforms
• Facilitates decision making by engaging the appropriate resources and driving to closure
• Collaborates with other tech leads on best practices, integration requirements to ensure
• Collaborates with Business Analyst, Product Managers, and Project Managers to develop business cases, in particular ensuring benefits align to strategic and tactical business objectives
• Provides advice and recommendations on emerging trends which will be useful to both the business and internal IT resources in the delivery of the projects
• Proactively raise concerns to management when a technical blocker puts the project at risk
• Takes a lead role in developing best in class practices and processes for the organization
• Mentors team members on software development best practices and standards
• Recommends improvements to processes and technology that improve the effectiveness of the team
• Develops and drives the strategic technology roadmap
• Work typically involves large or highly sophisticated software programs and systems
• Possess an in-depth knowledge of current programming language and technologies, with strong skills in writing code and completing programming tasks
• May perform or lead testing and debugging of applications, identifying innovative solutions
• Conceive, design, develop, test, and implement software components, fixes, improvements, and/or new systems and applications
• Interact with users to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications
• Works with the business analyst and product team to clarify and document requirements (both functional and non-functional)
• Defines technical stories from business requirements and ensure they have all details needed to be ready for development prior to review by the development team/ sprint planning
• Ensures all business requirements implementation passed to developers are clear and concise, documented correctly in Jira
• Architects and Software Engineers to design and implement appropriate solutions and documentation (including UML diagrams)
• Help engage around the estimation and planning of highly sophisticated scalable projects and their budget allocations
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies so you can make informed recommendations
• Provides leadership for all onshore and offshore technology resources
• Partners with Tech Leads, Architects and development team to follow Disney Reference Architecture best practices and share learnings across initiatives
• Mentors' development team by setting an example and providing guidance on coding standards, agile practices, and team culture
• Participates in individual mentorship sessions with senior developers
• Owns the final product, by reviewing code to ensure the quality of the product being delivered
• Define coding patterns and practices to be used on a project and enforce conformity to the best practices
• Identifies technical debt and ensure that stories are added real-time to the backlog
• Strategically identify technical dependencies and lead times on stories so that leadership and project managers can coordinate the project plan accordingly
• Assists in creation of the Application Infrastructure Diagram with System Engineering, and the project Architect
• Pilots the development of current and future large or complex custom projects
• Identifies high level solution options for the business and presents these to stakeholders for review
• Works with Architects to ensure business processes are aligned with technology and business goals
• Coordinate with management and Solution Engineering to ensure the right balance of Time, Quality, and Cost is met on all deliverables
• Reviews, and signs off on solution designs

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of related work experience
• Comfortable working in an agile environment
• A visionary who motivates teams to excel and fosters creativity, consistently driving excellence in all endeavors
• An advocate for a diverse and inclusive culture that encourages innovation and ensures every team member feels a sense of belonging
• Strong ability to clearly communicate thoughts and ideas to development and leadership teams
• Strong problem solving and analysis skills
• Organized, detail-oriented and able to deliver tasks on time
• Experience with Java, Spring Core, Spring Boot, Maven, Tomcat, REST, SOAP, GIT, GITHub, GITLab, Junit
• Experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, NodeJS, Angular, React
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and continuous integration/delivery systems
• Experience with monitoring tools like Splunk, AppDynamics, Open Telemetry, etc.
• Expertise with relational databases, writing and optimizing queries
• Experience with Microservices
• Expertise creating UML diagrams to document technical implementation
• Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming
• Experience with Jira including reviewing and updating requirements and user stories

Nice-to-haves

• Minimum 10 years of related work experience developing large scale enterprise solutions
• Experience with Salesforce integration
• Experience in developing eCommerce applications
• Experience with Versonix Seaware suite of applications
• Experience with Oracle and Maria DB databases
• Experience with Adobe Experience Manager
• Familiar with AWS technologies like ECS, EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, Redis, CloudWatch, Kinesis, AWS Gateway and AWS Console
• Experience with or exposure to Centralized Accounting Platform (CAP) and/or Adaptive Payment Platform (APP) integration