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! We are a group of Disney technologists who love to work on the latest technology to build new features and improve existing components of Disney's Online Platform specializing in Ticketing Products for various brands within the Walt Disney Company. Key Products include Tickets, Annual Passes, Special Events, and Park Reservations supporting both Disneyland, and Walt Disney World.
Responsibilities
- End to end ownership of backend services: ideate, review design, build, code-review, test, load-test, launch, monitor performance.
- Collaborate with other team members (including senior engineers, product owners, TPMs, and other business units) to achieve product and business requirements.
- Develop effective solutions, lead code reviews, hands-on development to lead and drive quality, and maintain application stability.
- Lead code reviews and provide leadership and direction to junior engineers while developing high engineering standards.
- Write complex programs, analyze code changes and suggest improvements.
- Check-in valuable, clean code on a daily basis that adds new features and capabilities.
- Create reference implementations for the purpose of mentoring and leading more junior staff (when required).
Requirements
- Hold a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or another technical field.
- Have 5+ years of experience in backend development or software engineering in a large enterprise environment using Java/Docker/Spring Framework.
- Possess AWS managed service solution design and implementation experience.
- Strong experience with AWS related services such as ECS, S3, Lambdas, and RDS.
- Ability to thrive within a fast-paced software application delivery, and product launch environment.
- Hands On Knowledge on Design Patterns, and Data Structures.
- Be able to demonstrate significant experience working with relational databases, and NoSQL data stores.
- Have a strong interest in open source technology.
- Possess good communication skills and enjoy mentoring and helping others to succeed as a team.
Nice-to-haves
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related technical discipline is highly desirable.
- Knowledge of performance testing and application profiling.
- Experience with AI tools such as Github Co-Pilot.
Benefits
- The hiring range for this position in CA is $138,900 to $186,200 per year.
- A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package.
- Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.
