Principal Software Engineer
Location
Lake Buena Vista, FL | United States
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Job Overview
“We Power the Magic!” That’s our motto at Disney Experiences 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 and 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 is a part of the Retail & Restaurant Commerce Technology organization within Disney Experiences Technology & Digital. It works closely with a diverse team of engineers and service owners from across the company.
The Principal Software Engineer (Developer / Software Engineer) will report to the Senior Manager of Software Engineering.
What You’ll Do
- End to end engineering lead responsible for the implementation and automation of the Point of Sale system.
- Owns and leads large development projects and team where a project comprises multiple components.
- Identifies new directions and opportunities; champions the development of innovative solutions.
- Works closely with management and architects to produce highly complex and sophisticated software on design projects that span several groups.
- Performs strategic research and design for one or more major technical areas.
- Monitors emerging technologies and proposes the adoption of appropriate new technologies.
- Uses expert knowledge to develop creative solutions to critical issues and complex design problems.
- Exercises exceptional judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria to resolve issues.
- Works on unprecedented and exceptionally complex technical issues requiring major vision, creativity, and proactive solutions.
- Overseeing, influencing, and mentoring collaborative project teams, inclusive of on-shore and off-shore development resources, key clients, and other technical groups in the organization.
- Ability to use your subject matter expertise knowledge to reverse engineer how things work from code bases that do not have documentation or historical explanation
- Recommends improvements to processes, technology, and interfaces that improve the effectiveness of the team
- Identifies new directions and opportunities; champions the development of innovative solutions.
- Oversees the development, programming, testing and debugging of major software development projects.
- Creates protocols, documentation and tools for the installation and maintenance of innovative software projects.
Required Qualifications & Skills
- 10+ years of progressively related experience in design, development, and implementation of highly scalable, high-volume software systems and components, client-facing web applications, and major Internet-oriented applications and systems.
- 4-6 years of project or team lead experience.
- Experience targeting Kubernetes for web application development
- In-depth knowledge of DPEP Technology & Digital Retail and Restaurant business processes and integrations, such as: Item Countdown, Item & Item Set Hierarchies, Location Configuration Hierarchy, Share Pick Groups, Pricing Modes, Kitchen Integrations, RBAC in a Point of Sale, Table Service Restaurant Functionality
- Certifications or working experience of ITIL and Agile processes.
Preferred Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience with Point of Sale
- Experience with Appetize Point of Sale systems
- Previously engineered adding major features to a pre-existing Point of Sale solution (stadiums, merchandise, table service)
- Prior experience with separating a monolith into microservices
- Understand and analyze data pipelines, algorithms, and automated systems
- Basic knowledge integrating cloud-based data pipelines and analytics services
- Experience with mobile development (Android/iOS native, web apps designed for mobile)
- Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) certification.
- In-depth, advanced expertise in relevant technologies, such as: CS Fundamentals, Development tools like Eclipse, Cloud Technologies, Java/JavaScript, SQL/ NoSQL data modeling, MongoDB and DynamoDB,JSON Messaging,Database Designs,Redis Caching, Protocol,Web Services (SOAP & REST) ,HTML/XHTML/DHTML & CSS, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Harness, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, ELK, Grafana, Splunk, AppDynamics, NewRelic, Firebase, DevOps fundamentals, Test Automation concepts, Software Performance Optimization
Education
- Bachelors in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field/work experience.
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