Software Developer – Backend

The Walt Disney Company

full-time

Posted on: 10/21/2025

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Santa Monica • California • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $95,300 - $127,800 per year

Mid-LevelSenior

AWSCloudDjangoDockerFlaskGrafanaJavaJavaScriptKafkaKubernetesNode.jsPythonReactSDLCSpinnaker

About the role

Work closely with Software Engineers to understand the complex ecosystem in place at DEEP&T
Develop automated test frameworks and suites on UI, API and Integration levels of testing using java, python or other OO language
Participate in design discussions for our platform to help evolve the platform in a way that enables richer testing scenarios that simplify defect detection and prevention
Assist with triage, diagnosis, and resolution of issues discovered across teams.
Contribute to end-to-end acceptance tests
Where necessary, develop and execute manual test cases to detect issues that cannot be detected through automated means
Drive the conversion of manual tests to automated whenever possible
Developing and supporting high quality code to build and enhance automation, quality infrastructure, and innovative proof-of-concepts
Investigating and troubleshooting issues across our services and driving them to resolution
Contributing to the development and maintenance of infrastructure, frameworks, and pipelines that verify backend services and APIs across multiple products

Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related technical field or equivalent years of professional experience.
3 years of relevant experience in a software development (SDET, SE, SRE) occupation, including automated and/or unit testing of front end and/or backend services
Experienced in object-oriented design and expertise with one of the following programming languages: Python, Java, Node/JavaScript
Experience working with high-performing teams using Agile and Lean methodologies
Excellent collaboration skills and ability to use standard software development lifecycle (SDLC) tools such as Jira and Confluence, and version control systems.
Experience shipping production Python, Flask, Django, React or Node.js applications.
Experience with developing and deploying applications in cloud platforms (e.g. AWS) and optimizing cost efficiency.
Experience with Kafka, Amazon SQS, and Kinesis
Experience writing Gherkin Syntax to facilitate the development of automated test scenarios.
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Spinnaker, and continuous integration/delivery systems.
Experience with testcase and/or issue management (e.g. JIRA, Xray), code management (e.g. git, SonarQube) and data visualization (e.g. Grafana, Data Dog) tools.

Benefits

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.

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