About the Role & Team

Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) is the master planning, creative development, design, engineering, production, project management, and research arm of The Walt Disney Company’s (TWDC) Parks and Resorts business segment. Representing more than 150 disciplines, the talented Imagineers are responsible for the creation of Disney resorts, theme parks and attractions, hotels, water parks, real estate developments, regional entertainment venues, cruise ships and new media technology projects.

The WDI Technology Studio is an embedded product and technology team that develops and supports software that enables Imagineers to do what they do best: create.

What You Will Do

The Walt Disney Imagineering Technology Studio is looking for a dedicated lead software developer for our Business Management capability. This role will be responsible for developing apps, platforms, tools, and technologies that enable and empower the business management functions of Walt Disney Imagineering, Finance, Menu Planning, and Project Controls.

This position will report to the Software Development Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with product teams to define technical requirements vital to achieving project goals.

• Software estimation, scheduling, planning, design, implementation, and closeout activities for assigned project scope.

• Develop and maintain whole feature sets of software. This includes architecture, design, implementation, and testing across variety of software typologies ranging from desktop applications to cloud-scale services.

• Collaborate with other software developers and software project leads to provide incremental and overall updates to the status of product progress.

• Lead code review initiatives and help define standards and processes within the portfolio and studio-wide.

• Lead and Mentor developers at various levels and provide guidance for implementing best practices and standards for software development

Required Qualifications & Skills

• 8+ years of development experience in one or more programming languages (eg. C#, Python, C++, Java, JavaScript) with the ability to lead projects

• Knowledge and experience with modern software development practices, including version control (SVN, git) and workflow management tools including JIRA, Github, Gitlab, Jenkins, etc.

• Solid understanding of CI/CD patterns (including infrastructure as code, eg. Terraform), Docker, AWS, and observability tools (eg. Datadog, Splunk)

• Experience in Full Stack Development, Cloud Deployment standard processes, and Data Security

• Technical writing, documentation, and interpersonal skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in Node.JS, Ruby on Rails

• Expertise in data model development, pipelines, database management and data visualization

• Expertise in Software Vendor Management

• Expertise with data processing pipelines, ETL workflows, Snowflake

• Familiarity with other languages including but not limited to Typescript, GoLang, R, Rust

• Familiarity with reactive front-end frameworks, primarily VueJs

Education

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering or related field, or equivalent experience.

Additional Information

This position is located onsite in Glendale, CA.

Disney offers a rewards package to help you live your best life. This includes health and savings benefits, educational opportunities, and special extras that only Disney can provide. Learn more about our benefits and perks at https://jobs.disneycareers.com/benefits.

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