Senior Software Development Engineer in Test, SDET
The Walt Disney Company
AWSCloudDockerJavaJavaScriptKafkaKubernetesNode.jsPythonReactRustSDLC+1 more
Principal Software Engineer
The Walt Disney Company
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York, NY • California, New York, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
Visit company websiteJob Level
Lead
Tech Stack
JavaScala
About the role
- Build and operate critical Commerce services supporting Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology.
- Work with a distributed team of engineers across multiple organizations building software collaboratively.
- Identify patterns that can help teams scale, create proposals, and drive adoption of those patterns.
- Challenge current architectural choices while collaborating to solve problems in innovative ways.
- Drive adoption of consistent technical frameworks across the organization.
- Drive best engineering practices to write well-constructed and easy-to-maintain code, defensive and robust tests.
- Lead through metrics - understand application performance and costs and push for better results.
Requirements
- 10+ years of related experience crafting large-scale, highly available Java, Scala, etc. services utilizing various database and messaging technologies.
- Strong programming skills in Java and other object-oriented languages and a strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, databases, etc.)
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or a comparable field of study.
- Experience using source control systems and CI/CD pipelines.
- An ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
- Champion cross-team projects.
- Coach and mentor other specialists on the team to ensure that all software utilizes industry best practices.
- Collaborate efficiently with product management, technical program management, operations, and other engineering teams to capture requirements, drive implementation, and provide transparency.
- Strong communication skills and a desire to share your knowledge with team members and others.
- Experience directly managing and mentoring a team (preferred).
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
- (implied) occasional work from home
- (employer likely provides standard benefits for full-time employees at Disney)
ATS Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
JavaScalaobject-oriented programmingdata structuresalgorithmsdatabasessource control systemsCI/CD pipelinessoftware engineering best practicesapplication performance
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationmentoringcoachingproblem-solvingleadershipindependenceteamworktransparencychampioning projects
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
