Sr Software Engineer
The Walt Disney Company
- Seattle, WA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Partner with teams across engineering, product, design, and marketing to help refine product requirements for new features across our commerce, engagement, and playback domains.
- Assess the technical feasibility of new features and identify possible solutions for their implementation, reviewing these solutions and building consensus with our partner teams to begin execution.
- Collaborate closely with engineers across client and service teams to facilitate the implementation of these features, with an eye toward platform consistency and scalability.
- Infrequently but occasionally help support significant releases during non-standard business hours.
- Minimum of 5+ years of experience building highly scalable and performant client applications.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience collaborating with team members across a variety of domains. Our work requires us to build trust and rally the support of our peers to influence and effect technical change!
- Demonstrated curiosity in researching and learning new tools and technologies.
- Experience with backend development, including GraphQL and/or REST APIs.
- Familiarity with Git for source control.
- Experience reading specifications written in OpenAPI.
- Experience with technical writing and maintaining user documentation and technical specifications.
- Experience mentoring junior team members and the ability to deliver encouraging and constructive feedback.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Electrical or Electronics Engineering or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.