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“We Power the Magic!” That’s our motto at Disney Parks, Experiences and Products Technology & Digital. Our team creates world-class immersive digital experiences for the Company’s premier vacation brands including Disney’s Parks & Resorts worldwide, Disney Cruise Line, Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa, and Disney Vacation Club.

We are responsible for the end-to-end digital and physical Guest experience for all technology & digital-led initiatives across the Attractions & Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Resorts & Transportation and Merchandise lines of business as well as other initiatives including MyDisneyExperience and Hey, Disney.

This role sits in the Retail and Restaurant Commerce space within Disney Parks, Experiences and Products Tech and Digital .

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with a passion for building world-class products to enhance the cast experience. The Sr Software Engineer will be focused on overhauling the Reporting functionality for our Point of Sale system, so an overlapping knowledge of development and engineering as well as data and Tableau will be required.

It is expected that the candidate will be able to apply practical knowledge of development and engineering to conceive, design, develop, test, and implement software fixes, enhancements, components, and/or new software systems and applications ranging from low to high complexity while maintaining standards and scalability.

Creativity, proactive, critical thinking, good communication skills and above all, the correct attitude when facing challenges and time pressure. Ability and will to work outside your comfort zone. Ability to estimate effort and time for new projects.

• Work with the team leads to understand product requirements, design and implement solutions, and work with QA to validate those solutions
• Interface with remote data sources and APIs.
• Be a technical pillar for the engineering team through collaboration and mentorship of other engineers.
• Analyze the technical feasibility of product features and help to guide feature development and roadmap from a technical perspective.
• Owns the design and development of software fixes, enhancements, components, and/or new software systems and applications.
• Partner with Product Managers to develop a reporting application that exceeds business requirements.
• Reviews or writes code.
• Develops technical solutions that meet specifications and that impact future developments.
• Able to work closely with managers, architects and rest of the development team.
• Leads programming, testing and debugging of applications or fixes to existing applications.
• Develops specifications for assigned components, projects or fixes.
• Using a combination of front-end and back-end code as well as Tableau dashboards, deliver an easy-to-use and efficient reporting system for the line of business.
• Drives development of components through own and subordinate engineers' work.

• Experience with SQL and other query languages
• Excellent problem solving skills.
• Excellent and deep understanding of design patterns and modern, highly scalable application development
• Expertise with unit testing
• Knowledge of Continuous Delivery Principles
• Multiple years experience working with Tableau to create and optimize reports.
• Experience designing RESTful API’s and implementing such APIs ideally within a security framework such as OAuth
• Software Performance Optimization (memory, CPU, scaling, etc...)
• 5+ years of full software development lifecycle experience
• Multiple years experience as a software engineer using languages such as PHP, GoLang, JavaScript.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure and how it relates to software development such as AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform
• Experience working within large businesses as well as agility to be flexible like startups.
• Experience building use case driven software with Agile Software Development and Test Driven Development methodologies.
• Experience with Point of Sale related applications and environments is a must.

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