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Company

Original Job Post

The Walt Disney Company · 5 days ago

Lead Software Engineer

Santa Monica, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$149K/yr - $219K/yr

7+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Lead engineering teams in building architectures which are robust, fault-tolerant, and cloud-native

Possess extensive AWS managed service solution design and implementation experience

Reason logically and creatively, identifying problems, drawing valid conclusions from the data available, and develop effective solutions while applying creative thinking in the design and development of high-performing web applications

Collaborate with fellow senior and lead engineers to keep the team’s technology radar and architecture principles aligned to the industry and needs of our users

Lead code reviews and provide leadership and direction to junior engineers

Deliver multiple projects utilizing an Agile methodology

Take a high ownership, self-sufficient, hands-on position on the team to lead and drive quality, maintain application stability

Write complex programs, analyze code changes and suggest improvements

Check-in valuable, clean code on a daily basis that adds new features and capabilities

Create reference implementations for the purpose of mentoring and leading more junior staff (when required)

Help define engineering standards and provide technical mentorship to the team

Investigate and resolve any production issues from end-user (UI) to the persistence layer and work to prevent them

Work with product managers and managers to ensure that all project deliverables are on time and high quality

Work collaboratively with other service teams

Qualification

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Required

Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, or another technical field

Have 7+ years of experience in web application development or software engineering in a large enterprise environment using Java, including familiarity with modern frameworks and platforms (e.g., Spring, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka)

Be able to demonstrate significant experience working with relational databases, SQL and newer NoSQL data stores as well as event streaming platforms

Have a solid understanding of AWS technologies

Have a strong interest in open source technology

Possess good communication skills and enjoy mentoring and helping others to succeed as a team

Care about your craft and have opinions about the “right” way to do things with technology