Software Engineer

Disney Experiences; Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 111,900 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus potential

Long-term incentive units

Medical benefits

Job summary

Disney is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and maintain world-class applications that enhance Guest and Cast experiences. You will work in a scrum team on full stack solutions, focusing on high-throughput, low-latency services with Java, Spring, and modern data stores.

You will collaborate with engineers, product owners, and partners to craft scalable, reusable solutions and to experiment with new technologies. Strong analytical and OO design skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering with full lifecycle experience.
• Experience with Java, Spring, SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with cloud-native applications, preferably AWS.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong analytical and object-oriented design knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Write clean, scalable code for high-throughput systems.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to design extensible solutions.
• Develop and maintain backend and frontend components.
• Create unit and integration tests to ensure code quality.
• Troubleshoot and fix issues in production and staging environments.
• Participate in Scrum ceremonies and provide daily progress updates.

Skills

Java

Spring Framework

SQL (AuroraDB)

NoSQL (MongoDB)

GraphQL

Microservices

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

OO Programming

Analytical Skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tools

Job description

At Disney, we’re storytellers. We make the impossible possible. The Walt Disney Company is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. Walt’s passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world—a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from theme parks, resorts and a cruise line to sports, news, movies and a variety of other businesses. Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences — and we’re constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences.

Disney Parks, Experiences and Products is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with a passion for building world-class products and enabling our businesses to be future ready. We are looking for an engineer who has full stack programming experience and is enthusiastic to build and maintain new applications, improving our Guest and Cast experiences.

What You'll Do

• Implement reliable, high-throughput, low latency, scalable and well-documented code to tackle sophisticated algorithms
• Collaborate with engineers, product owners, and other partners to propose extensible, reusable and performant solutions
• Experiment, develop proof of concept with relevant new technologies
• Able to work independently to analyze and solve issues as an individual contributor
• Troubleshoot, fix problems reported in lower and production environments
• Write unit and component tests to ensure delivery of high-quality code
• Monitor and proactively improve production run quality of applications
• Work in a scrum team and provide your daily updates

Qualifications

• A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience
• Domain knowledge in multiple technical and business areas
• A minimum of 3 years of software engineering, analysis and design with full software development lifecycle experience.
• 3+ years of Java, Spring Framework, SQL (AroraDB) and NoSQL-based databases (MongoDB), writing complex SQL queries and building highly scalable and highly performant distributed applications and web services experience.
• Exposure to GraphQL / Graph DBs
• A minimum of 3 years Internet technologies, microservices architectures experience.
• A minimum of 3 year of developing cloud native applications, preferably in AWS experience
• Experience with Docker / Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools
• Demonstrated strong analytical skills.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming with an understanding of design principles

Preferred Skills

• Experience in the commerce space and products / pricing / inventory domains

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar field or related equivalent experience

The hiring range for this position in Orlando, FL is $111,900 to $150,000 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long‑term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.