Lead Software Engineer: AI-Driven Cloud-Native APIs

Disney Experiences; Lake Buena Vista (FL); On-site; USD 148,000 - 199,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Bonus potential

Long-term incentive units

Job summary

Disney Experiences in Lake Buena Vista, FL seeks a Lead Software Engineer to design and implement scalable software systems and APIs using Java, AWS, and cloud-native patterns. Hands-on coding, architectural leadership, and AI-driven development are essential.

You will own dining and bookable experiences systems, ensure reliability, and collaborate across product, engineering, and IT teams in a fast-paced, cross-functional setting.

Qualifications

• 7+ years building large-scale software and leading teams.
• Experience in solution and application architecture.
• Proven ability to guide architectural decisions and patterns.
• Hands-on cloud and API-led integration experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and build scalable software systems, APIs, and services in Java/AWS.
• Champion AI-driven development across the lifecycle with AI tools.
• Define architectures, align with reference patterns and roadmaps.
• Own reservation and inventory-related systems and prevent overbooking.
• Integrate systems across databases, messaging, and orchestration platforms.
• Drive code quality, testing, and root-cause analysis in a fast-paced environment.
• Collaborate with product owners, engineers, and stakeholders.

Skills

Java 21+

Spring

Microservices

RESTful APIs

AWS

CI/CD

Leadership

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

DynamoDB

Aurora

MongoDB

Kafka

Docker

Grafana

Splunk

AppDynamics

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Disney Experiences in Lake Buena Vista, FL seeks a Lead Software Engineer to design and implement scalable software systems and APIs using Java, AWS, and cloud-native patterns. Hands-on coding, architectural leadership, and AI-driven development are essential.

You will own dining and bookable experiences systems, ensure reliability, and collaborate across product, engineering, and IT teams in a fast-paced, cross-functional setting.