COMPLETE Sr Software Engineer - The Woodlands, TX, USA

Job Posting Title:

Sr Software Engineer

Req ID:

10065010

Job Description:

Sr. Software Engineer

Job Description

As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will use your deep .Net, scripting, DevOps, and data persistence skills to write and test code that delivers new features for our application portfolio. You will be an important part of a motivated team where we’ll be looking for you to collaborate with the team to drive application architecture, code quality, and make sure we are building the right things for our users. We want someone that has grown up through the web software development ranks - possessing 10 or more years’ experience in designing and architecting highly scalable, secure, performant, and usable web applications using .Net. The ideal candidate would possess deep skills in server-side technology (.Net, Azure, RESTful Web Services), while having expertise with orchestration and containerization platforms (Docker and Kubernetes), coupled with hands on persistence and data streaming technology experience (MS SQL, Azure SQL, Redis, Kafka).

While The Walt Disney Company is a large company, ideally, we’d like if you have some previous experience in a U.S. startup environment and be comfortable performing multiple roles. We strive to get things done quickly, with high quality, and we are committed to the agile methodology. Our work is guided by lean principles (looking at value and looking for waste; not doing anything ‘for the sake of doing it’).

We’re looking for a passionate, impactful, technical leader who wants to come here to do their very best work and make their mark, add their chapter to the long and storied history of The Walt Disney Company. Someone who holds themselves and their teammates accountable in a professional, collaborative manner. A collaborative technologist who seeks to bring the best out in themselves and those around them. Someone who can provide a fresh perspective and innovative insight to our initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

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

• Possess extensive Azure serverless 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 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 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

• Owns and leads large development projects and teams where a project comprises multiple components, with direct organizational impact.

• Leads the development, testing, and deployment of highly innovative, large, complex software solutions that meet specifications and significantly impact future developments

• Creates and owns protocols, documentation, and tools for the installation and maintenance of major resilient software projects

• Writes codes that establishes and enhances frameworks and design proof of concepts

• All other duties as required to drive business objectives

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution in Computer Science or related field, and/or equivalent work experience

• Have 5+ years of experience in web application development or software engineering in a large enterprise environment using .Net, including familiarity with modern frameworks and platforms (e.g., Entity Framework, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes)

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

• Have a strong understanding of SCTE-104, SCTE-35 and SCTE-224

• Experience interacting with the Evertz API

• 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

• Strong knowledge in HTML, JavaScript, .Net, Azure

• Extensive use of CI/CD pipeline for code deployment with different tools

• Ability to work a flexible schedule as needed

 #DISNEYTECH

Job Posting Segment:

Technology (DTC)

Job Posting Primary Business:

Media Engineering (DTC)

Primary Job Posting Category:

Software Engineer

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

The Woodlands, TX, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2023-10-09