The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is a global entertainment business built around storytelling, characters, and guest experiences. Its operations span theme parks and resorts, media networks, film studios, and interactive media, with products and experiences reaching audiences across platforms and devices worldwide. Founded in 1923, Disney brings together a large international workforce across entertainment, hospitality, travel, and food and beverage, while maintaining a focus on privacy, transparency, and compliance in its handling of consumer data.

Lead Software Engineer – Java Backend, Hybrid

Lead Java backend engineering for scalable Disney Experiences services supporting ticketing, annual passes, events, and park reservations. Guide architecture, delivery, testing, performance, and engineer development.

Description

  • Own the full lifecycle of backend Java services, from ideation and design reviews through development, testing, launch, and performance monitoring.
  • Partner with senior engineers, product owners, technical program managers, and business units to meet product and business needs.
  • Design effective solutions, lead code reviews, promote quality, and protect application stability.
  • Mentor junior engineers and set high standards for engineering practice.
  • Develop complex software, evaluate code changes, and recommend improvements.
  • Produce clean code that adds reliable features and capabilities.
  • Build reference implementations to support junior engineer mentoring.
  • Lead analysis, design, programming, debugging, and modifications for software improvements and new products.
  • Direct projects serving commercial and end-user applications, infrastructure, and technology platforms.
  • Conduct or guide application testing and debugging while identifying innovative solutions.
  • Design, develop, test, and implement software components, fixes, improvements, systems, and applications.
  • Work with users to clarify system requirements and define necessary changes.
  • Contribute to estimates and plans for sophisticated, scalable projects and budget allocations.
  • Track emerging technologies and provide informed recommendations.

Requirements

  • At least 7 years of backend development or software engineering experience in a large enterprise using Java, Docker, and Spring Framework.
  • Comfort working in an agile environment.
  • Familiarity with data engineering tools, methods, and emerging technologies.
  • Experience designing and implementing solutions with AWS managed services.
  • Strong experience with AWS services including ECS, S3, Lambda, and RDS.
  • Ability to perform in a fast-paced software delivery and product launch environment.
  • Practical knowledge of design patterns and data structures.
  • Substantial experience with relational databases and NoSQL data stores.
  • Strong interest in open-source technology.
  • Effective communication skills and an interest in mentoring teammates and helping them succeed.
  • Bachelor’s degree, foreign equivalent, or comparable work experience in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related field.
  • Knowledge of performance testing and application profiling.
  • Experience with AI tools including RAG, Cursor, GitHub MCP, and MariaDB MCP.
  • At least 7 years of Java experience, including Spring Framework.
  • Experience with AWS services and deployments, EC2 and ECS containers, Elasticsearch caching, S3, Fargate, Lambda, DynamoDB, MariaDB/MySQL, Kinesis, and Developer Tools.
  • Experience with JUnit testing; JUnit 5 familiarity is preferred.
  • Familiarity with Firebase Test Lab and Sauce Labs Test Cloud.
  • Experience using GitLab, GitHub, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor.

Benefits

  • Bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be available.
  • Medical benefits.
  • Financial benefits.
  • Additional benefits vary by the level and position offered.

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