Job Summary:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will use your deep coding and data skills to write and test code that delivers new features for our Theatrical Distribution application portfolio. You will be an important part of a motivated team where we’ll be looking for you to collaborate with the team to drive application architecture, code quality, and make sure we are building the right things for our users. We want someone that has grown up through the web software development ranks - possessing 7 or more years’ experience in designing and architecting highly scalable, secure, performant, and usable web applications using Java/Kotlin. The ideal candidate would possess deep skills in both server and client side technology (React, Node.js, RESTful Web Services), while having worked with orchestration and containerization platforms (Docker and Kubernetes), coupled with hands on experience with persistence and data streaming technology experience (Postgres, Elastic Search, RabbitMQ, Kafka).

While The Walt Disney Company is a large company, ideally, we’d like if you have some previous experience in a U.S. startup environment and be comfortable performing multiple roles. We strive to get things done quickly, with high quality, and we are committed to the agile methodology. Our work is guided by lean principles (looking at value and looking for waste; not doing anything ‘for the sake of doing it’).

We’re looking for a passionate, impactful, technical leader who wants to come here to do their very best work and make their mark, add their chapter to the long and storied history of The Walt Disney Company. Someone who holds themselves and their teammates accountable in a professional, collaborative manner. A collaborative technologist who seeks to bring the best out in themselves and those around them. Someone who can provide a fresh perspective and innovative insight to our initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with other software engineers and cross-functional teams
• Mentor junior engineers and conduct code reviews
• Work independently to design, build, test and deploy high quality software solutions
• Troubleshoot issues and fix defects
• Balance resources, requirements and complexity

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ Years industry experience
• Computer Science degree or related technical degree or equivalent experience
• Experience with common backend technologies such as REST APIs, Microservice architectures, async programming
• Experience with a wide range of data store technologies such as MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Postgres, and DynamoDB
• Experience with Java or Kotlin, Spring Framework and .Net
• Experience with Cloud-based technologies such as AWS EC2, S3, SQS, Lambda and Step Functions, and Fargate
• Experience with build and deployment technologies such as Docker, Gitlab-CI, Terraform/Cloud formation, and Jenkins
• Experience in Agile/Scrum methodology
• Team player with strong oral and written communications skills
• Motivated self-starter with the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in developing high volume, cached, fault tolerant, multi-threaded scalable systems
• Experience designing and building backend APIs and building RESTful services
• Exposure to full lifecycle of application development, including best practices of unit testing, code reviews, documentation, etc.
• Experience in JDA Demand manager and JDA Demand.

Required Education

Computer Science degree or related technical degree or equivalent experience

This role is considered hybrid, which means the employee will work a portion of their time on-site from a Company designated location and the remainder of their time remotely. A remote opportunity may be possible for qualified candidates under certain circumstances and, if granted, the employee would work remotely on an ongoing basis.