The role directly impacts guest experience in the park by providing millions of guests with personalized, important, helpful content when and where they need it. The Software Engineer would be responsible for supporting product application capabilities within Guest Experiences Platform team by working with internal partners, external partners, and vendors to design, implement and sustain technical business solutions that are leveraged across Disney Parks. This position plays a key role in ensuring the delivery of new experiences capabilities and is directly responsible for leading the sustainment of these technical business solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Continuously create and look for innovative ways to improve processes and functionalities.
• Design, build, test, implement, communicate, and sustain guest experiences capabilities and issues.
• Oversee assigned projects from inception to completion.
• Partner closely with users to enhance and optimize processes, understand needs/requirements, and create technical business solutions.
• Collaborate with internal partners, external partners and vendors on the design and building of business solutions.
• In the near term, help consolidate our guest experiences technologies into a single, modern, real-time platform using AngularJS, ReactJS, PHP and AWS technologies, apply the platform across multiple communication channels, and drastically improve guest experience by applying new capabilities including personalization.

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years of software engineering, analysis, and design
• 3+ years of full software development lifecycle experience
• 3+ years with Internet technologies including RESTful web services
• Proficient in all aspects of programming and analysis including design patterns
• 2+ years of experience in working Angular, ReactJS, PHP, NodeJS and JavaScript.
• 2+ experience with advanced workflow design/troubleshooting.
• Some exposure to AWS technologies like S3, Kinesis and Lambdas.
• Strong attention to detail and a strong commitment to delivering high-quality solutions.
• Strong communication skills, both written and oral. Excellent interpersonal skills necessary to work effectively within the organization.
• Strong meeting facilitation skills with the ability to guide and explain technical topics and environment changes to non-technical partners.
• Solid technical judgment, strong organizational and time management skills.
• Excellent problem determination and solving skills – ability to navigate different technical structures and environments.
• Ability to collaborate with team members and leverage business partners to research and design potential new and innovative solutions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Angular, ReactJS.
• Experience with dynamic programming languages, ideally Python, PHP.
• Experience with Amazon Web Services like S3 and Lambdas.
• Experience with GitHub and automated release management systems.
• Familiarity with Object-Oriented Programming Principles.
• Hospitality/Travel industry experience.
• Knowledge of large database and marketing principles and trends.
• Previous experience in supporting marketing campaigns.

Required Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Sciences, Marketing, Business, Engineering, MIS or related field or equivalent experience.

The hiring range for this position in California is $93,398.00 to $125,290.00 per year based on a 40 hour work week. The amount of hours scheduled per week may vary based on business needs. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.