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The Walt Disney Company Principal Software Engineer in Orlando, Florida
“We Power the Magic!” That’s our motto at Disney Experiences Technology & Digital.
At Disney, we’re storytellers. We make the impossible possible. The Walt Disney Company is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. Walt’s passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world—a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from theme parks, resorts and a cruise line to sports, news, movies and a variety of other businesses. Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences — and we’re constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences.
Disney Experiences is seeking a principal software engineer who has passion for architecting and implementing well defined technology solutions and providing technical oversight advancing the roadmap of our core commerce platform.
What You Will Do
Define and own the technical roadmap of our products
Sets the architectural direction and lead the design/development of application components for major software development projects
Define API specifications, best practices, and coding guidelines
Leads the development, programming, testing, and debugging of major software products
Performs strategic research, develops proofs of concepts as needed and proactively to recommend technically appropriate choices with performance and supportability in mind
Uses expert knowledge to develop creative solutions to critical issues and complex design problems.
Exercises considerable judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria to resolve issues.
Identifies major problems and opportunities, sets directions and champions the development of innovative solutions.
Leads the triage and resolution of high priority production problems or impairments
Reviews and writes code, leads programming,testing and debugging of major software development projects.
Be the go-to guru to guide and mentor less experienced software engineers providing the required technology expertise and oversight
Recommends processes &technology improvements to improve the effectiveness of the team.
Accountable for quality, completeness, and timely delivery of an assigned project
Required Qualifications & Skills
10+ years of full stack development experience
Substantial working experience with developinghighly-scalable architectures, patterns, and technologies, specifically Java, GraphQL, NoSQL, Graph DB, Caching technologies and Event-Driven Architectures.
Substantial experience creating enterprise scale solutionsfor distributed applications with extensible design patterns that incorporate resiliency and performance.
Experience with test driven design and test automation frameworks
Experience with software performance optimizations
Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence engineers, peers, and senior stakeholders to consensus decisions
Proven experience in driving the architecture of complex technical programs across large numbers of stakeholders, multi-functional teams, requirements, and implementations
Experience developing with cloud native architectures and major cloud platforms
Experience with observability and tooling
Experience working on geographically distributed scrum teams
Well versed in dev sec ops
Experience with modernization of legacy software applications to new technology stacks
Cloud design or development certifications (AWS Preferred)
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in the e-commerce space and products / pricing / inventory domains
Experience in travel and hospitality/hotel industries
Knowledge and training in AI/ML, GenAI and other emerging technologies
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
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Job ID: 10089540
Location: Orlando,Florida
Job Posting Company: Disney Experiences
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