Lead Software Engineer
| Company | The Walt Disney Company |
|---|---|
| Location | Santa Monica, CA, USA, New York, NY, USA |
| Salary | $152200 – $204100 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- 7+ years experience building highly scalable and performant web applications serving millions of users and requests.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
- Experience architecting sophisticated technical changes, to knowledge-share, and get consensus for their solutions.
- Expert knowledge in Javascript, Typescript, and React.
- Proven track record to define and implement api specifications while collaborating with service teams.
- Highly diligent with the ability to see projects from beginning to end.
- Quickly learn, understand, and adapt to new technologies; identifying root causes and driving solutions to complex problems.
- Ability to support and mentor senior developers by building trust, identifying goals, encouraging, instructing, and providing constructive feedback.
Responsibilities
- Lead projects where you’ll work closely with engineering and product teams to scope and distill product requirements into design and technical specifications.
- Write, maintain, standardize and enforce code quality through test driven development.
- Architect and Design implementations while providing documentation and guidance to other engineers.
- Key contributor to project needs and the evolution of the team’s practices; recommending changes in development, coding, maintenance and system standards.
- Applies experiences and exercises judgment in selecting methods and techniques to identify, resolve, and develop solutions to a variety of sophisticated tasks involving architectural application changes.
- Supports and mentors senior developers through code reviews, knowledge-sharing, and technical leadership.
Preferred Qualifications
- Shipped production level React/Node.js application with high availability and throughput deployed to cloud platforms (e.g. AWS)
- Expert understanding of web accessibility fundamentals
- Expansive industry knowledge with regard to web standards and new technologies