Hybrid Senior Software Engineer

at The Walt Disney Company

• Job title: Senior Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $141,900 - $190,300 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Docker, DynamoDB, EC2, ElasticSearch, GraphQL, Jenkins, NoSQL, SQL, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Bristol, United States

About the role

• Solutions Architect contributing to Solutions Architecture with Product and Engineering partners. Helping define future state architecture for Digital Media Supply Chain.

Responsibilities

• Contributing to Solutions Architecture with Product and Engineering partners
• Contribute Reference Architecture for best practices across all domains, by delivering high and low-level technical design documents and specifications, position papers on technology evaluations, and other artifacts that will assist in architecting our Digital Media Supply Chain
• Provides technical guidance and evangelize best practices while promoting the best use of company and industry standards
• Maintains a deep understanding of our core systems and how they interact with upstream and downstream dependencies
• Partners with stakeholders to refine requirements, and propose solutions to problems that span multiple teams
• Researches, learns, and evangelizes widespread adoption of new technologies and architecture patterns
• Has participated in incident and problem-solving sessions that require a unique set of skills
• Assists in selecting the right software/tool for the task, as well as the implementation to ensure innovative, reliable, and flexible technology solutions that meet or exceed the CPE standards and SLAs
• Organizes internal and external resources to solve the technical challenges of our Digital Media Supply Chain
• Any other duties needed to help achieve Business Objectives

Requirements

• Proven expertise with n-tier architecture and delivery of high volume, cached, fault tolerant, multi-threaded scalable systems
• Motivated self-starter with the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies
• Can effectively articulate complex ideas and influence others through well-reasoned explanations
• Enjoy working in a team setting with engineers of varying experience
• Strong communication skills and attention to detail
• Understanding of the Media Supply Chain
• Deep understanding of async programming models (events, callbacks, etc)
• Expertise designing APIs with GraphQL and RESTful services
• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience working with data persistence layers
• Highly knowledgeable in cloud-based technologies such as AWS EC2, SQS, S3, Lambdas, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Cloudformation/Terraform, etc
• Expertise with full lifecycle of application development, including best practices of unit testing, code reviews, documentation, etc
• Experience with build and deployment technologies such as Jenkins and Docker
• 5+ years relevant industry experience

Benefits

• A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
• Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits