Lead Software Engineer
The Walt Disney Company
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Santa Monica • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $155,700 - $208,700 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
JavaScriptReactTypeScript
About the role
- Lead projects where you’ll work closely with engineering and product teams to scope and distill product requirements into design and technical specifications.
- Write, maintain, standardize and enforce code quality through test driven development.
- Architect and Design implementations while providing documentation and guidance to other engineers.
- Key contributor to project needs and the evolution of the team's practices; recommending changes in development, coding, maintenance and system standards.
- Applies experiences and exercises judgment in selecting methods and techniques to identify, resolve, and develop solutions to a variety of sophisticated tasks involving architectural application changes.
- Supports and mentors senior developers through code reviews, knowledge-sharing, and technical leadership.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Electrical or Electronics Engineering or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
- Minimum of 7+ years experience building highly scalable and performant web applications serving millions of users and requests
- Experience architecting sophisticated technical changes, to knowledge-share, and get consensus for their solutions
- Expert knowledge in Javascript, Typescript, and React
- Proven track record to define and implement API specifications while collaborating with service teams
- Highly diligent, with the ability to see projects from beginning to end
- Quickly learn, understand, and adapt to new technologies; identifying root causes and driving solutions to complex problems
- Ability to support and mentor senior developers by building trust, identifying goals, encouraging, instructing, and providing constructive feedback.
Benefits
- Medical benefits
- Bonuses and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
JavascriptTypescriptReactAPI specificationsTest driven developmentArchitecting technical changesCode qualityWeb applicationsScalable applicationsPerformance optimization
Soft skills
MentoringTechnical leadershipKnowledge-sharingCollaborationProblem-solvingProject managementCommunicationTrust-buildingConstructive feedbackAdaptability
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Information SystemsBachelor’s degree in Software EngineeringBachelor’s degree in Electrical EngineeringBachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering