Job Posting Title:
Senior Backend Engineer (Go)Req ID:
10140592Job Description:
About the Role & Team
Disney Digital Entertainment, a division of Disney Experiences, is redefining how audiences interact with The Walt Disney Company—creating the ‘digital front door’ that unites all of Disney’s magic into a cohesive, interactive universe.
Disney Digital Entertainment is seeking talented individuals passionate about pushing the boundaries of scalable systems that power unforgettable experiences. You’ll design and optimize high-performance platforms.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will build and run the services that connect Disney guests to new experiences across the company. That means working with systems, teams and constraints well beyond our own codebase.
We write Go and we run on AWS. That is the shape of the work today, and everyone on the team has a say in where it goes next. You will design APIs, model data and make the trade-offs that keep our services reliable under real traffic. When a problem sits outside our stack or our team, you go and solve it there.
You will write down your reasoning so others can follow it and challenge it. You will work with the teams whose systems we depend on, inside Disney and outside it. You will decide things without waiting for someone to decide them for you.
One of our engineers describes the work and the team in this Life at Disney story: Leveling Up Video Gaming Experiences at Disney
What You Will Do
- You design and build HTTP APIs and event consumers in Go, and you own their data models end to end.
- You make resilience and rollout decisions and write down why, so the team can follow and challenge them.
- You own what you ship in production: the dashboards, the alerts, the follow-up.
- You raise the bar through code review and clear writing.
- You improve the codebase, the tooling and the pipeline a little every week.
Required Qualifications & Skills
- You have professional experience of building and running backend services in production in a typed language. We write Go. It does not need to be on your CV, but you should be glad to make it your daily language. Rust, C#, Java, Kotlin or server-side TypeScript transfers well.
- You are comfortable with relational data, message streams or queues, and the ways they fail.
- You test your own work and write clearly about it.
- You go deep on things nobody asked you to learn, and you have changed your mind about a technical belief.
- You enjoy working closely with others, including people who do not write code.
- You have made other engineers better, through review, pairing or mentoring, and you want to keep doing that.
Nice to have: AWS, OpenAPI code generation, OIDC or Terraform. We will teach you the rest.
Where you will be
This role is remote. You can work from Sweden / Denmark / Norway / Finland. Travel may be required a few times per year, typically around 2-4 trips annually, depending on your location. Travel may include destinations within the Nordics as well as other countries.
Job Posting Segment:
NA - GamesJob Posting Primary Business:
Regional (NA - Games)Primary Job Posting Category:
Games-ProductionEmployment Type:
Full timePrimary City, State, Region, Postal Code:
Remote Worker Location, SwedenAlternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:
DNK - Remote - Denmark, FIN - Remote - Finland, NOR - Remote - NorwayDate Posted:
2026-02-02Skills Required
- Strong track record of building and maintaining complex online systems at scale
- Skilled in high-performance server development and API design
- Experience in Go programming language preferred
- Ability to guide architectural decisions and mentor junior engineers
The Walt Disney Company Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about The Walt Disney Company and has not been reviewed or approved by The Walt Disney Company.
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Pay Growth & Progression — Recent union agreements raised wage floors for large groups of park cast members—e.g., Disneyland’s $24/hour minimum rising to $26 over the contract and Walt Disney World’s path from $18 toward about $20–$20.50 by 2026—signaling upward movement in hourly pay. These steps are described as meaningful improvements for many frontline roles.
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Healthcare Strength — Company materials outline medical, dental, and vision coverage for many full‑time roles, wellness resources, and (in Central Florida) access to Centers for Living Well clinics and pharmacy. References to mental‑health support and paid time off reinforce a strong core health offering.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Complimentary theme‑park admission and discounts on hotels, dining, merchandise, and recreation are positioned as signature perks. Education support through Disney Aspire adds notable lifestyle value for eligible hourly employees.
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What We Do
The Walt Disney Company is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that operates through segments including entertainment, sports, and experiences.
