Hybrid Principal Full Stack UI Software Engineer – Ad Experiences

at The Walt Disney Company

• Job title: Principal Full Stack UI Software Engineer – Ad Experiences
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $184,300 - $247,100 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Apache, AWS, Cloud, DynamoDB, Java, Kafka, Microservices, Next.js, Node.js, React, Redis, Spring, Spring Boot, SpringBoot, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Glendale, United States

About the role

• Principal Full Stack UI Software Engineer at Disney responsible for developing interactive ad formats. Collaborating with various teams to create engaging user experiences and implementing innovative solutions.

Responsibilities

• Writing and reviewing a lot of code and tests.
• Reviewing code and test implementations for best practices and algorithmic complexity.
• Available to support engineers on an On-Call shift, when needed.
• Reading requirements documentation from Product, providing a perspective on feasibility and translating into implementation tasks, and partnering with teams’ leads through execution as needed.
• Exploring, researching, implementing proofs-of-concept, and proposing solutions that will improve Ad Serving systems (reduce cost and overhead, improve maintainability, minimize the time features take to be in production, etc).
• Defining, reviewing, and documenting software and system designs in a high throughput, low latency microservices environment.
• Enhancing systems’ observability with proper metrics, monitors, and alerts.
• Mentoring and inspiring others in all aspects of professional software development.

Requirements

• BS or MS in Computer Science/Engineering or relevant work experience
• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• Advanced proficiency with Java, such as understanding heap, multi-threading, garbage collection, profiling
• Advanced proficiency with front end technologies such as Node, React, NextJS, Express, Typescript, Tailwind
• Demonstrable analytical / problem-solving / design skills in a highly distributed and highly available services ecosystem
• Excellent communication, collaboration skills, and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Comprehensive experience with: SpringBoot and related Spring projects
• Non-relational database technologies e.g. DynamoDB Redis and/or MemCache
• Apache Kafka and/or Kinesis
• AWS or any other cloud platform
• Observability tooling (logs, metrics, etc)
• Front end technologies and frameworks such as Node, React, NextJS, Express, Typescript, Tailwind

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, dependent on the level and position offered.