Principal Software Engineer

“We Power the Magic!” That’s our motto at Disney Experiences Technology & Digital.  

At Disney, we’re storytellers. We make the impossible possible. The Walt Disney Company is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. Walt’s passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world—a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from theme parks, resorts and a cruise line to sports, news, movies and a variety of other businesses. Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences — and we’re constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences. 

Disney Experiences is seeking a principal software engineer who has passion for architecting and implementing well defined technology solutions and providing technical oversight advancing the roadmap of our core commerce platform.  

What You Will Do 

• Define and own the technical roadmap of our products  

• Sets the architectural direction and lead the design/development of application components for major software development projects 

• Define API specifications, best practices, and coding guidelines  

• Leads the development, programming, testing, and debugging of major software products 

• Performs strategic research, develops proofs of concepts as needed and proactively to recommend technically appropriate choices with performance and supportability in mind  

• Uses expert knowledge to develop creative solutions to critical issues and complex design problems. 

• Exercises considerable judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria to resolve issues. 

• Identifies major problems and opportunities, sets directions and champions the development of innovative solutions. 

• Leads the triage and resolution of high priority production problems or impairments 

• Reviews and writes code, leads programming, testing and debugging of major software development projects. 

• Be the go-to guru to guide and mentor less experienced software engineers providing the required technology expertise and oversight 

• Recommends processes & technology improvements to improve the effectiveness of the team. 

• Accountable for quality, completeness, and timely delivery of an assigned  
  project 
   

Required Qualifications & Skills 

• 10+ years of full stack development experience 

• Substantial working experience with developing highly-scalable architectures, patterns, and technologies, specifically Java, GraphQL, NoSQL, Graph DB, Caching technologies and Event-Driven Architectures.  

• Substantial experience creating enterprise scale solutions for distributed applications with extensible design patterns that incorporate resiliency and performance. 

• Experience with test driven design and test automation frameworks 

• Experience with software performance optimizations  

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence engineers, peers,  
  and senior stakeholders to consensus decisions 

• Proven experience in driving the architecture of complex technical programs  
  across large numbers of stakeholders, multi-functional teams, requirements,  
  and implementations 

• Experience developing with cloud native architectures and major cloud platforms 

• Experience with observability and tooling 

• Experience working on geographically distributed scrum teams 

• Well versed in dev sec ops  

• Experience with modernization of legacy software applications to new technology stacks 

• Cloud design or development certifications (AWS Preferred) 

Preferred Qualifications  

• Experience in the e-commerce space and products / pricing / inventory domains 

• Experience in travel and hospitality/hotel industries 

• Knowledge and training in AI/ML, GenAI and other emerging technologies 

Education  

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

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