About the role

  • Lead Software Developer creating and deploying next-generation technologies at Walt Disney Imagineering. Partnering with teams to innovate and improve guest experiences using AI and full stack development.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Job title

Lead Software Developer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$155,700 - $208,700 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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