Lead Software Engineer

The Walt Disney Company

full-time

Posted on: 9/23/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California, New York

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💰 $159,500 - $213,900 per year

Senior

AWSCloudDockerJavaJenkinsPythonScalaSpinnakerTerraform

About the role

Work with a team of engineers building software in a collaborative development process
Build high-performance, stable, scalable systems to be deployed in an enterprise setting
Lead high-level architecture discussions and planning sessions
Participate in the code review process by providing feedback on pull requests
Participate in the on-call rotation, supporting systems and services during production incidents
Author and provide feedback on technical proposals and root cause analyses
Provide mentoring and advice for other engineers
Establish engineering best practices and standards within the team to drive quality and excellence
Contribute to the DSS technical community through presentations, tech talks, and other knowledge-sharing efforts

7+ years related experience designing backend architectures and delivering backend applications in a production environment
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
Experience building RESTful Services in Scala
Understanding of async programming models (events, callbacks, async/await) and thread + concurrency
Understanding of source control concepts and exposure to Git
Experience with build and deployment technologies such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, and Docker
Strong grasp of data structures, algorithms, and common design patterns
Demonstrated knowledge in building and operating large-scale high availability backend services
Knowledge of caching technologies
Proficiency in Cloud Platforms and DevOps Practices
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Self-learner, independent, excellent problem-solving skills
Participate in the on-call rotation, supporting systems and services during production incidents
Preferred Qualifications:
Demonstrated knowledge in building and operating large-scale high availability backend services in a JVM language
Functional Programming in Scala
Expertise in Performance Optimization and Scalability
Experience with AWS (EKS, S3, ElastiCache, Kinesis, OpenSearch), Scala, Java, Python, Terraform
Experience with observability tooling (ex. DataDog)