Sr Software Engineer

Department Description:

Our team at Disney Experiences Technology creates world-class immersive digital experiences for the Company’s premier vacation brands including Disney’s Parks & Resorts worldwide, Disney Cruise Line, Aulani Disney Resort & Spa, and Disney Vacation Club.

Team Description:

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 My Disney Experience and Hey, Disney!

As a Sr Software Engineer, you will be part of the Core Experiences team that builds the Disney theme parks mobile application platform for Disneyland, Walt Disney World, and Hong Kong Disneyland. These applications are used directly by Guests to enhance their visits and create magical experiences.

In this role, you will deliver enterprise‑wide mobile applications in an Agile environment, owning complex technical work and contributing to architectural decisions while remaining a hands‑on individual contributor and driving features from design through deployment and support.

What You’ll Do:

• Design, develop, test, deploy, enhance, and maintain mobile applications primarily using Flutter and integrating with native iOS and Android where appropriate.

• Contribute to software improvements and new feature development across enterprise‑scale mobile platforms, ensuring stability, performance, and maintainability.

• Conduct code reviews and provide technical mentorship to engineers, promoting high‑quality engineering standards and best practices.

• Participate in estimation, planning, and execution of complex features and subsystems, contributing technical input to scalable solutions.

• Analyze user stories and requirements, provide technical guidance and estimations, and participate actively in Agile processes including sprint planning, scrums, demos, and retrospectives.

• Collaborate effectively in a fast‑paced, cross‑functional environment, contributing to problem analysis, issue resolution, and continuous improvement.

• Track and improve quality metrics such as crash rates, performance indicators, and overall software reliability.

• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, including practical applications of ML, LLMs, and Generative AI, and assess their relevance to mobile development and guest experiences.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• Minimum 5 years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated experience coordinating multi‑engineer feature delivery in large, complex mobile applications.

• Comfortable working in an Agile, cross‑functional environment alongside product managers, designers, QA, and engineers.

• Strong knowledge of mobile application development, including design principles, patterns, and best practices across architectures.

• Hands‑on experience with Flutter in a professional environment, along with native iOS and/or Android development experience.

• Experience contributing to or owning work within a highly complex mobile software system.

• Experience optimizing mobile application performance, including memory usage, CPU efficiency, app size, and scalability.

• Strong problem‑solving, analytical, and communication skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions through collaboration.

• Working knowledge of backend services, APIs, networking, and real‑time data interactions used by mobile applications.

• Experience with Flutter‑paced, cross‑functional ‑solving, analytical, and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Flutter development.

• Familiarity with JIRA, Confluence and Github.

• Prior experience shipping at least one mobile application.

• Provide access to code samples, ideally hosted on GitHub.‑time data flows

Required Education:

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

The hiring range for this position in Seattle, WA is $148,700 to $199,400 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.