Sr Software Engineer-Emerging Tech

“We Power the Magic!” That’s our motto at Disney Experiences (DX). Our team creates world-class immersive digital experiences for the Company’s premier vacation brands including Disney’s Parks & Resorts worldwide, Disney Cruise Line, Aulani, a Disney Resort & Spa, and Disney Vacation Club.

We are responsible for the end-to-end digital and physical Guest experience for all technology & digital-led initiatives across the Attractions & Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Resorts & Transportation and Merchandise lines of business as well as other initiatives including MyDisneyExperience and Hey, Disney!

This role sits in the Parks Commercial Platforms organization within Technology & Digital for Disney Experiences. It works closely with Product, Business, Finance and other teams from across the company.

The Senior Software Engineer will report to the Manager - Technology.

About The Role & Team:

• The Senior Software Engineer will work on the latest technology to build new features and improve existing components of Disney Commerce Payment Platform specializing in Cart and Checkout.

What You’ll Do:

• May lead small projects encompassing analysis, design, programming, debugging, and modification of software enhancements and/or new products used in local, networked, cloud-based, or Internet-related computer programs
• Responsible for performing testing and debugging of applications
• Code may be used in commercial and end-user applications or focus on software and tools supporting infrastructure and technology platforms
• Code at the component level
• Work typically involves large or highly sophisticated software programs and systems
• Possess a proven understanding of current programming language and technologies, with strong skills in writing code and completing programming tasks
• Interact with product teams to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications
• Conceive, design, develop, test, and implement software components, fixes, improvements, and/or new systems and applications
• Design and develop highly scalable software systems and applications
• You will be expected to stay up to date with emerging technologies

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• Minimum 5 years of related work experience
• Comfortable working in an agile environment
• Ability to thrive within a fast-paced software application delivery and product launch environment.
• Foundational Knowledge of Computer Science
• Hands On Knowledge on Design Patterns - Great understanding in the following design patterns: Singleton, Factory, Observer, Builder, Adapter, Publisher/Subscriber, Decorator.
• Hands On Knowledge on Data Structures - Familiarity/Confident using Lists, Sets, Maps, Linked Lists, Queues, Stacks. Preferred familiar with BST, Red-Black Trees, trees, graphs.
• Hands On Knowledge of Algorithms - Great problem-solving skills, the candidate needs to be able to solve efficiently coding problems in whiteboard, https://leetcode.com/ is a great source for practicing. Big O notation, time and space complexity of the algorithms.
• Proactive demeanor towards continuous learning and skill development, and an interest in mastering emerging data engineering tools and methodologies

Preferred Qualifications: 

• 5+ years' Experience on Web UI development
• Extensive hands-on experience with modern JavaScript based applications and/or development frameworks such as Angular, Node.js, jQuery, etc.
• Experience creating dynamic mobile friendly web apps that are cross-browser/cross-platform compatible.
• Experience utilizing RESTful Web Services
• Experience with Jenkins and GIT
• Experience with TDD and writing unit tests.
• Familiarity with web components
• Familiarity with UI optimization and performance tuning
• Familiarity with UI Automation
• Familiarity working with Mobile Web Views
• Experience with AWS Suite (Service Management and Deployments, EC2 and ECS Containers, Elastic Search Caching, Lambdas, DynamoDB, MariaDB/MySQL, Kinesis, Developer Tools)

Required Education:

• Bachelor's or foreign equivalent Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience

#DISNEYTECH

The hiring range for this position in Seattle is $145,500-$170,500 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.