About the Role & Team

At Disney Experiences Technology, 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. The Disney Experiences Technology team is 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 the MyDisneyExperience app and Hey, Disney!

This role sits in the Core Sales Platform in our Commerce space, and our group is 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.

This Senior Software Engineer will apply practical knowledge of development and engineering to conceive, design, develop, test, and implement software fixes, improvements, components, and new software systems and applications of moderate complexity. This Engineer will focus on designing, coding and develops highly scalable software systems in a designated functional focus areas under minimal direction.

What You'll Do:

Complete assigned component level software development and fixes using new or existing technologies, participating in development of specs, assigned components, projects, and fixes

Participate in the design process of new features and improvements to the software platform in an agile environment

Have an ability to build and maintain documentation, procedures, and work instructions for development or operations team - using AI tools as needed to help reduce manual overhead

Responsible for Release Management, Service Management and build configuration in highly coordinated environment while using DevOps tools like Harness, Rundeck, API gateways, AppDynamics and Splunk

Coordinate, influence, and mentor with collaborative project teams, key clients, and other technical groups in the organization - articulating needs to both technical and non-tech audiences

Work closely with Quality Engineers, Product and Project Managers, Architects, and Business stakeholders to develop solutions that enhance AI-assisted code development through improved prompt engineering. This involves using tools like GitHub Copilot, Q Developer, and other approved AI platforms to integrate static code analysis, vulnerability detection, and performance optimization within CI/CD pipelines

Ensure a process orientation across the technical/project team, being able to develop, implement and improve process with a focus on engineering best practices

Provide technical direction and evaluate the quality of work from vendors

Required Qualifications & Skills:

5+ years of software development experience

Experience collecting, reviewing and updating requirements and/or user stories in an Agile environment

Experience writing technical documentation and providing engineering deliverables

Provide technical leadership, able to encourage and mentor technical members to perform at their highest potential

Validated Knowledge/Experience In Relevant Technologies:

Java

AWS – Lambda, SQS, S3, API Gateway, CloudWatch, Docker, Kubernetes, ECS

Web Services (SOAP & REST), GraphQL

JSON

Software Performance Optimization (memory, CPU, scaling, etc...)

Message Queues

HTTP Protocol

SQL, No SQL

Harness, Rundeck, AppDynamics, Splunk

Preferred Qualifications:

Proven understanding of micro-services, RESTful Web Services, or APIs using Spring boot, Spring Cloud Function, JPA, and/or JAXB

Experience with event driven architecture, including technologies such as JMS, RabbitMQ, Kafka, and/or similar solutions

Experience with source control and build deploy tools such as Git, Git Prime, Sonar Jenkins, Maven, and/or CICD.

Experience with MySQL, Mongo, Aurora, Oracle, Maria relational Databases

Required 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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