
Lead Software Developer
The Walt Disney Company
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Glendale • California • Florida • United States
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Salary
💰 $155,700 - $208,700 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Partner with project teams to define technical requirements necessary to achieve project goals.
- Software estimation, scheduling, planning, design, implementation, and closeout activities for assigned project scope.
- Must work closely with other technical divisions of work to ensure constructed systems operate cooperatively and reliably over the expected usable life of the project.
- Must balance evolving technical requirements with fixed budgets and schedules and communicate risks and options to both Studio and Project leadership in a timely fashion.
- Partner with both Studio and Project leadership to execute project goals while employing best software development practices and adhering to relevant company and industry standards.
- Develop and/or maintain multiple complex projects or entire pieces of software both guest facing and internal WDI facing. This includes architecture, design, and implementation.
- Work with other software developers and software project leads to provide incremental and overall updates to status and condition of software product progress.
- Lead code review initiatives and help define department wide standards and processes.
- Mentor peer, early-career developers and provide leadership for implementing best practices and standards for development.
Requirements
- Expertise in one or more modern programming languages, preferably Typescript
- Experience with AWS
- Familiarity with UI and AI tooling
- Knowledge and experience in modern software development practices, including version control and workflow management tools including JIRA, Github, Gitlab, Jenkins, etc.
- Demonstrable technical writing, documentation, and communication skills
- Proven ability to learn new programming languages and work within complicated systems
- Familiarity with software processes such as unit testing and/or automated testing
- Willing to travel on behalf of company to project destinations for the purposes of business trips
Benefits
- health and savings benefits
- educational opportunities
- special extras that only Disney can provide
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Typescriptsoftware estimationschedulingplanningdesignimplementationunit testingautomated testingtechnical writingdocumentation
Soft Skills
communicationleadershipmentoringrisk managementcollaborationproblem-solvingadaptabilitytime managementteamworkproject management