Lead Software Engineer

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Lead Software Engineer

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Department Description

We Power the Magic! Thats our motto at Disney Experiences (DX). Our team creates world-class immersive digital experiences for the Companys premier vacation brands including Disneys Parks & Resorts worldwide Disney Cruise Line Aulani a Disney Resort & Spa and Disney Vacation 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 Retail Restaurant & Supply Chain Technology organization within Technology & Digital for Disney Experiences. It works closely with a diverse team of engineers business stakeholders and service owners from across the company.

The Lead Software Engineer will report to the M anage r Software Engineering.

What Youll Do

• Lead and personally build (hands-on coding expected) scalable well-documented software systems applications APIs and RESTful services from technical specs through delivery using Java AWS/cloud-native patterns relational and NoSQL databases messaging and orchestration technologies.

• Champion AI-driven development and architecture embedding AI-powered tools (GitHub Copilot Cursor Amazon Q Claude Kiro) across the software lifecycle from design and coding to testing and troubleshooting to accelerate delivery and elevate quality while shaping how the team adopts AI in its engineering practices.

• Set architectural direction by translating complex functional technical and business requirements into solution architecture coordinating with Architecture and IT stakeholders evaluating technology choices (software hardware SaaS/PaaS) and developing proof-of-concepts and roadmaps that align applications with reference architecture.

• Own dining and bookable experience reservation systems maintaining deep expertise in inventory availability offers and reservations and proactively preventing overbooking issues that could impact guests.

• Integrate and support complex systems across databases messaging and orchestration platforms and manage AWS infrastructure to keep production and lower environments reliable.

• Drive engineering quality and continuous improvement through code and design reviews automated testing end-to-end troubleshooting and root-cause analysis and proactive recommendations to processes technologies and coding practices maintaining focus and sound judgment in a dynamic fast-paced cross-functional environment.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with product owners engineering partners delivery managers business analysts and other architecture teams to align solutions with current and future business needs estimate delivery and communicate the teams value.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• 7 years of experience building large-scale software systems and web applications leading engineering teams and projects with hands-on experience in solution and application architecture.

• Expertise with enterprise architecture repository tools (e.g. tools similar to BlueDolphin or LeanIX )

• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-domain architectural initiatives and guide decision processes

• Experience developing and managing architecture taxonomies patterns and standards.

• Proven ability to align architecture with strategic objectives OKRs and scorecards.

• Hands-on familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP) API-led integration security-by-design and data architecture principles.

• Strong hands-on skills in Java 21 Spring microservices and RESTful APIs.

• Deep experience with AWS databases (DynamoDB Aurora MongoDB) Kafka Docker and CI/CD pipelines.

• Solid understanding of object-oriented design coding best practices and Agile/Test-Driven Development.

• Experience running and monitoring distributed production systems including tools like Splunk Grafana or AppDynamics.

• Knowledge of inventory optimization and preventing overbooking-type issues.

• H ands-on experience using AI-powered coding tools (Copilot Cursor Amazon Q Claude etc.) to accelerate development.

• Able to lead complex projects independently setting direction solving hard problems and guiding testing and debugging.

• Comfortable managing multiple projects at once and making fast decisions under pressure.

• Experience working with distributed/remote teams.

• Strong mentoring skills able to train guide and review the work of junior engineers.

• Good communicator who can work well with product owners UI/UX teams and other technical and business stakeholders.

• Adaptable thrives in fast-changing sometimes ambiguous environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Disney Food & Beverage Attractions & Entertainment domain

Required Education :

• Bachelors 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 Lake Buena Vista FL is $148300 - $198800 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidates 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.

Job Posting Segment:

DX Technology

Job Posting Primary Business:

Commerce

Primary Job Posting Category:

Software Engineer

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City State Region Postal Code:

Lake Buena Vista FL USA

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