United Parks & Resorts Inc. (NYSE: PRKS) is a leading theme park and entertainment company with a world‑class portfolio of seven brands across 13 parks in the United States and Abu Dhabi. The Company’s award‑winning portfolio of iconic brands includes SeaWorld, Busch Gardens, Discovery Cove, Sesame Place, Water Country USA, Adventure Island, and Aquatica
Role Summary
United Parks & Resorts is hiring a Backend Engineer to build secure, scalable backend services and APIs that power our customer‑facing digital experiences. This role works closely with our Sitecore‑based platform and supports key e‑commerce journeys end‑to‑end, with an emphasis on reliability, performance, and automated testing.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain backend services and APIs supporting customer‑facing digital experiences
- Integrate backend services with Sitecore‑driven experiences, enabling content‑driven and configurable experiences across the platform
- Design stable API contracts with clear versioning, backward compatibility, and predictable behavior
- Build cloud‑native services on Azure or other major cloud platforms, with attention to observability, resiliency, and performance
- Drive technical design discussions, code reviews, and continuous improvement of development practices
- Own quality end‑to‑end through automated testing and the right level of code coverage
- Use modern AI‑assisted development tools responsibly to improve productivity, code quality, and developer velocity
Required Qualifications
- 4+ years of hands‑on development experience in C#/.NET, including building REST APIs with ASP.NET Core, dependency injection, async programming, validation, and secure API development
- Production experience building backend services with Node.js, including API frameworks and asynchronous service behavior
- Experience supporting CMS‑based web platforms through backend services, integrations, and content delivery patterns
- Experience building and maintaining automated test coverage as part of delivery, including unit tests and integration/API tests for critical workflows
- Expertise in xUnit, NUnit, Jest, or MSTest with mocking frameworks such as Moq
- Cloud‑native development experience using Azure, AWS, or GCP, including deployments, configuration, and secrets management
- Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills in distributed systems
- Experience with Sitecore headless or composable patterns
- Experience supporting high‑traffic consumer platforms and handling peak‑load readiness
Perks of the position
- Paid Floating Holidays
- Paid Time Off
- Complimentary Park Tickets and Passes
- Park Discounts on Food and Merchandise
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Voluntary Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Disability Benefits
- Dependent and Health Care Flexible Spending Accounts