Lead Software Engineer
The Consumer Identity Services (CIS) team provides critical consumer facing access and identification services across The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) business units. Nearly every digital consumer experience across the company relies on CIS for mission critical business operations, including booking Disney Parks and Resort vacations, playing ESPN Fantasy Football, buying products from Shop Disney and many more. These identity services are responsible for over 300 million guest and fan accounts, and billions of transactions per year.
As part of the team, you will be tackling cutting edge issues that come with cloud-based infrastructures, platform resiliency requirements, security, and data migrations at scale. These challenges are regularly given on tight timelines, and we are looking for experienced engineering team members able to make the right decisions and drive them to execution.
This position will serve as a primary contributor on the team as well as help the team navigate the changing technology landscape. Lead level positions are a key element of our team's composition as they serve as initiative leads and problem solvers.
Our team...• collaborative and dynamic• we embrace agile practices• work as a full-stack delivery team• continuous integration/automated testing• frequent working software demos
Responsibilities...• work as part of a team• lead web software initiatives and design across the ecosystem• participate in stand-ups and other sprint meetings• help monitor and support apps in production• help design new web solutions both for our SDKs as well as internal toolsets • document changes and new features• participate in sprint planning• deliver code with thorough automated testing • integrate and verify • release to the world
About you...• enjoy working in a team environment• good organizational and communication skills• have a strong sense of ownership and pride in your work• are self-motivated and detail oriented• are driven to produce great experiences
Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training: • 7+ years of relevant web software development experience• 4+ years hands on experience with automated end-to-end testing across various browsers and mobile devices• 4+ years experience delivering single page apps or progressive web apps• 3+ years experience with React• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (preferred)• Demonstrated excellence with complex javascript challenges• Experience designing for highly visited sites and complex caching• Experience with some or all of the following:
- Javascript ES6 (http://es6-features.org/)
- React (https://reactjs.org)
- Redux (https://redux.js.org)
- Sass (https://sass-lang.com)
- Webpack (https://webpack.js.org)
- Jest (https://jestjs.io)
- Mocha (https://mochajs.org)
- Puppeteer ( https://github.com/puppeteer /puppeteer)
- Playwright (https://github.com/microsoft/playwright)
- SauceLabs (https://saucelabs.com)
- Node ( https://nodejs.or g/en/)
- Docker (https://www.docker.com) GitLab (https://about.gitlab.com) AWS (https://aws.amazon.com)
• Ability to lead small project teams and platform initiatives• Familiarity with various CI/CD methodologies and implement strategies• Strong understanding of web services and REST framework-based APIs• Excellent communication (written and verbal); ability to communicate with other developers as well as business units and internal stakeholders• Ability to drive focus and help the team deliver on its commitments• Basic Knowledge and understanding of Application Lifecycle Management, Software Development and Agile Development/Testing practices and methodologies• Basic Knowledge of common performance issues, as well as a solid working knowledge of logs, monitoring tools, and work with developers to determine a root cause• Ability to work and participate in a team with open and collaborative style of communications• Demonstrated ability to work independently as well as part of a cross-functional team
Educational Requirements:
▪ Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (or related field) - preferred