Senior Staff Product Software Engineer

We're looking for a passionate, impactful, technical leader who wants to come here to do their very best work and make their mark, add their chapter to the long and storied history of The Walt Disney Company. Someone who holds themselves and their teammates accountable in a professional, collaborative manner. A collaborative technologist who seeks to bring the best out in themselves and those around them. Someone who can provide a fresh perspective and innovative insight to our initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Lead engineering teams in building architectures that are robust, fault-tolerant, and cloud- native.
• Possess extensive AWS managed services solution design and implementation experience.
• Reason logically and creatively, identifying problems, drawing valid conclusions from the data available, and developing effective solutions while applying creative thinking in the design and development of high-performing web applications.
• Collaborate with fellow senior and lead engineers and QA Engineers to keep the team's technology radar and architecture principles aligned to the industry and the needs of our users.
• Lead code reviews and provide leadership and direction to junior engineers.
• Deliver multiple projects utilizing an Agile Scrum methodology.
• Take ownership in a self-sufficient, hands-on position on the team to lead and drive quality and maintain application stability.
• Write complex programs, analyze code changes, and suggest improvements.
• Check in valuable, clean code on a daily basis that adds new features and capabilities.
• Create reference implementations for the purpose of mentoring and leading more junior staff (when required).
• Investigate and resolve any production issues from the end user (UI) to the persistence layer and work to prevent them.
• Work with product managers and project managers to ensure that all project deliverables are on time and high quality.
• Work collaboratively with other service teams.

Requirements:

• Have 7+ years of experience in web application development or software engineering in a large enterprise environment using the Java tech stack, including familiarity with modern frameworks and platforms (e. g., Java, Spring, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Be able to demonstrate significant experience working with relational databases, MySQL, and newer NoSQL data stores, as well as event streaming platforms such as Kafka.
• Familiarity with cloud native storage technologies such as AWS S3 storage.
• Have a strong interest in open-source technology.
• Possess good communication skills and enjoy mentoring and helping others to succeed as a team.
• Care about your craft and have opinions about the right way to do things with technology.
• Demonstrated experience providing technical direction and influencing design decisions across teams.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and leading code/design reviews at scale.
• Previous work experience in Ad tech applications.
• Experience working with vendor teams to deliver high-quality results.
• Knowledge of performance testing and application profiling.
• Strong curiosity about how Disney delivers the Magic and a desire to be a part of it.
• Prior experience as a tech lead or engineering lead on a cross-functional or distributed team.
• Track record of driving complex features or systems from inception to production in a leadership capacity.
• Experience contributing to long-term technical roadmaps and engineering strategy.
• Experience with: Technology stack includes Java, Spring, and REST APIs.
• Data persistence utilizing a mix of relational and NoSQL databases including MySQL, Oracle, and Redis.
• Data streaming stack that includes Kafka.
• AWS cloud and cloud native stack such as K8s, Parameter Store, and S3 Storage.
• Object-oriented programming fundamentals and in-depth understanding of Dependency Injection.
• Docker containers orchestrated via EKS, AWS Lambda.
• Performance Testing tools: Gatling and JProfiler.
• Observability stack that includes Splunk, Datadog, and Grafana.
• Experience guiding platform-wide architectural improvements or modernization initiatives.
• Experience evaluating and selecting new technologies or tools for team-wide adoption.
• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, or another technical field.
• A Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline is highly desirable.