Full-Time

Lead Software Engineer

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company

10,001+ employees

Leading producers & providers of entertainment and information

Compensation Overview

$152.2k - $223.6kAnnually

+ Bonus + Long-term Incentive Units

Senior

Seattle, WA, USA + 2 more

More locations: Santa Monica, CA, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA

Category
Backend Engineering
Full-Stack Engineering
Software Engineering
Required Skills
Kotlin
JavaScript
React.js
MySQL
Git
Java
Postgres
TypeScript
Scala
Jenkins
Cassandra

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Requirements
  • Minimum of 7 years of related work experience in the software engineering field, with a focus on building highly available architecture, shipping robust code and creating a positive team environment
  • Minimum of 1 year of experience crafting and operating large-scale, high-availability backend services
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
  • Front-end web development experience working with Typescript, React, HTML5, CSS3, SASS/LESS, and vanilla JS
  • Experience in Modern Java and/or an alternative JVM application development environment (e.g. Scala/Kotlin)
  • Experience with Relational and NoSQL Databases like Postgres, MySql, DynamoDB, Cassandra
  • Experience with asynchronous programming
  • Experience with object-oriented programming patterns
  • Experience using source control systems and CI/CD pipelines (such as git, Github, Jenkins)
  • Strong attention to detail, excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Experience working with localization and/or internationalization
  • Solid understanding of A/B experimentation
Responsibilities
  • Lead the design & enhancement of the Unified Messaging Platform critical solutions and services, with an awareness of scalability, performance, and reliability benchmarks
  • Contribute to the source code implementation of new features in UMP critical services. Submit code change requests, unit tests, integration tests, and investigation results for review and deployment.
  • Build and maintain product-driven initiatives to improve and expand the messaging portal, Enhance/improve the underlying codebase to be extensible, reusable, and maintainable
  • Partake in collaboration and mentorship of more junior developers
  • Collaborate with your squad, Product Managers, Designers, QA, Operations, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and articulate technical decisions and outcomes.
  • Participate in on-call support, as needed
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience shipping entertainment/streaming media applications/platforms
  • Experience building messaging experiences, especially Email and Push
  • A history building internally scalable UI systems
  • Fluency or certification with AWS services, including S3, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, Lambda, CloudWatch
  • Familiarity with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tooling
  • Experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, high-uptime systems
  • Experience with performance tuning and building/maintaining software that is in critical path
  • Skilled at work breakdown and task estimation with creative and inventive problem solving
  • Strong understanding of design patterns and principles
The Walt Disney Company

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Founded

1923