Principal Software Engineer

About the Role & Team

“We Power the Magic!” That’s our motto at Disney Experiences (DX) Tech & Digital. Our team creates world-class immersive digital experiences for the Company’s premier vacation brands. We deliver experiences to consumers through our Disney’s Parks & Resorts worldwide, Disney Cruise Lines, and Disney Vacation Club. We are responsible for the end-to-end digital and physical Guest experience for all technology & digitally led initiatives across the Attractions & Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Resorts & Transportation and Merchandise lines of business, as well as other initiatives such as Hey, Disney!

Disney’s Online Commerce Platform team is seeking a principal software engineer who has passion for architecting and implementing well defined technology solutions that advance the roadmap for the next generation of Commerce products.

What You Will Do

1. Lead Architecture, Design and Technical Roadmap of cloud scale Software Platforms that support various Disney Products.
2. Mentor Developers and Architects to design, prototype and develop software.
3. Align stakeholders from all areas – Business, Commercial, Product, Cross Vertical Technology and Operational Teams.
4. Work in an Agile Environment with Detailed Planning and Estimation accuracy.
5. Design and implement new software systems, build efficient and scalable distributed systems.
6. Participate and lead design reviews with peers and partners to build the right solution using available technologies or solutions that cater to the best Guest and Cast Experience.
7. Identify areas of improvement and patterns of repeat problems in our application ecosystem and propose solutions that can be applied globally.
8. Set Architecture standards and best practices to improve scalability, performance, and availability based on technical and business considerations.
9. Analyze user requirements and define non-functional requirements (scalability, reliability, performance, efficiency, availability, security, maintainability).
10. Develop proof of concepts and prototypes for innovative technologies and new business needs.
11. Increase the Return on Investment on Projects by building scalable and performant software applications and systems.
12. Development engagement >50% of their time in one or more of the following skillset areas.

Required Qualifications & Skills

1. Minimum of 10 years of full stack development experience.
2. Deep working experience with developing highly scalable architectures, enterprise and integration design patterns, and technologies, specifically Java, GraphQL, NoSQL, Graph DB, Caching technologies and Event-Driven Architectures.
3. Substantial experience creating enterprise scale distributed applications using extensible design patterns that optimize resiliency and performance.
4. Experience with test driven design and test automation frameworks.
5. Experience with software performance optimizations.
6. Excellent interpersonal skills to build consensus across both technical and business teams.
7. Ability to lead all phases of large-scale programs within Commerce and other areas of Disney Parks and Experience products from ideation, development to delivery.
8. Proven record of accomplishment in driving the architecture of complex technical programs across large numbers of partners, multi-functional teams, requirements, and implementations.
9. Development experience with cloud native architectures and major cloud platforms.
10. Experience working on geographically distributed scrum teams.
11. Experience with modernization of legacy software applications to modern technology stacks.

Specialized skills – one or multiple areas

1. Java experience.
2. JVM internals (Memory management, garbage collection, JIT and so on).
3. Web Containers (e.g., Tomcat server).
4. Experience developing spring boot-based RESTful microservices.
5. Experience writing RESTful APIs (API versioning, documentation, and security).
6. Docker.
7. SQL.
8. Database modeling.
9. ORM frameworks/specifications (JPA or Hibernate).
10. Experience with AWS technologies (Service Management and Deployments, EC2 and ECS Containers, Lambdas, DynamoDB, MariaDB/MySQL).
11. Experience with unit testing best practices.
12. Source control systems (GitLab/GitHub).
13. Experience designing back-end distributed systems for high availability, high throughput, and low latency.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with web/mobile UI.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study and/or equivalent work experience.