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

• 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

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About Disney Experiences:

Disney Experiences brings the magic of Disney stories and franchises to life through theme parks, resorts, cruise ships, unique vacation experiences, products and more around the world. Disney shines in the travel industry with six resort destinations in the United States, Europe and Asia; a top-rated cruise line; a popular vacation ownership program; and an award-winning guided family adventure business. Plus, Disney’s global consumer products operations include the world’s leading licensing business; the world’s largest children’s publishing brands; one of the world’s largest licensors of games across all platforms; and Disney store locations around the world and on the web.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

This position is with Walt Disney Attractions Technology LLC , which is part of a business we call Disney Experiences .

Walt Disney Attractions Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.

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