Senior Full-Stack Backend Architect

The Walt Disney Company; Celebration (FL); On-site; USD 135,000 - 181,000; Full time

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company is seeking a senior full stack software engineer for Disney Experiences in Orlando, FL. You will focus on backend architecture, scalable APIs, distributed services, and data solutions across guest-facing platforms and internal systems.

You will collaborate with product and architecture teams, drive best practices, mentor engineers, and leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery while ensuring quality across cloud-native deployments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years software engineering experience with production-grade enterprise applications.
• Advocate for diverse and inclusive culture.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving abilities.
• Proven experience as a full stack engineer with backend in Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and frontend in React/Angular/JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Relational DB design and query optimization; familiarity with NoSQL.
• Experience designing scalable, cloud-native apps with microservices, event-driven architectures, API design, and performance optimization.
• Experience building/ supporting enterprise-scale solutions and production systems (monitoring, incident response, RCA, continuous improvement).
• Experience deploying secure cloud-native apps on AWS/Azure/GCP with containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and secure practices.
• Proficiency with AI-assisted engineering tools to improve delivery, code quality, testing, and productivity.
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools (e.g., Splunk, AppDynamics).
• Experience mentoring engineers and working in Agile environments.
• Continuous learner with a passion for emerging tech.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design discussions and architectural decisions for enterprise applications and services.
• Drive best practices for scalability, reliability, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Partner with product, architecture, and business teams to decompose complex requirements into technical solutions.
• Identify technical debt and propose modernization strategies.
• Provide technical leadership through code reviews, mentoring, and knowledge sharing.
• May lead small projects spanning analysis, design, programming, debugging, and enhancements for local, networked, cloud-based, or Internet apps.
• Perform testing and debugging of applications.
• Code at the component level for large, sophisticated software programs.
• Interact with users to define system requirements and necessary modifications.
• Conceive, design, develop, test, and implement software components and new systems.
• Design scalable software systems and stay current with emerging technologies.
• Use AI-assisted tools to accelerate coding, testing, debugging, and documentation, validating AI outputs.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Microservices

Distributed systems

React/Angular

JavaScript/TypeScript

Cloud-native

AI-assisted tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitHub Copilot

Confluence

Jira

Job description

The Walt Disney Company is seeking a senior full stack software engineer for Disney Experiences in Orlando, FL. You will focus on backend architecture, scalable APIs, distributed services, and data solutions across guest-facing platforms and internal systems.

You will collaborate with product and architecture teams, drive best practices, mentor engineers, and leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery while ensuring quality across cloud-native deployments.