Lead Software Architect - Services

Company: Parks, Experiences and Products
Location: Bedford
Posted on: August 7, 2022

Job Description:

Job Description : We are a group of Disney technologists who love to work on the latest technology to build new features and improve existing components of Disney's Online Commerce Platform specializing in Ticketing Products. We also take pride in building the next generation of Commerce products for several business units within the Walt Disney Company. Key Products within Commerce include Tickets, Annual Passes, Special Events, Park Reservations, Unified Checkout across many products including Dining and Lodging across Walt Disney World, Disneyland California, and Disneyland Paris Responsibilities :

• Collaborate in a constructive manner with team members and technical and non-technical business partners
• Design and implement software features thinking upfront in terms of efficiency, scalability, and stability.
• Lead engineers, providing guidance, feedback, code reviews, and technical mentorship.
• Participate in Brainstorming Phases of Large-Scale Efforts within Commerce and other areas of Disney Parks and Experience Products.
• Lead design reviews with peers and partners to present/decide among available technologies or solutions.
• Participate in full lifecycle of software development.
• Write and test product code.
• Review code providing feedback with style guidelines, testability, and efficiency in mind.
• Help existing documentation.
• Triage production issues: debugging/tracking and resolving them by analyzing the source of the problem.
• Identify areas of improvement in our application ecosystem and patterns of repeated problems proposing solutions that can be applied globally.
• Elaborate and explain execution plans to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Set best practices to improve scalability, performance, and availability based on technical and business considerations Basic Qualifications :
  • 7+ years' experience in Software Development
  • Experience within a fast-paced, software application delivery, and product launch environment
  • Technical expertise with:
    • Java, JVM internals (Memory management, garbage collection, JIT, etc)
    • Web Containers (e.g., Tomcat server)
    • Experience developing spring boot-based RESTful microservices
    • Experience writing RESTful APIs (API versioning, documentation, and security)
    • Docker
    • SQL
    • Database modeling
    • ORM frameworks/specifications (JPA or Hibernate)
    • Experience with AWS Suite (Service Management and Deployments, EC2 and ECS Containers, Lambdas, DynamoDB, or MariaDB/MySQL)
    • Experience with unit testing best practices
    • Source control systems (GitLab/GitHub)
    • Experience designing back-end distributed systems for high availability, high throughput, and low latency.
    • Development Experience with expectation of 50% or more Code Engagement and Detailed Knowledge in areas:
      • Messaging Patterns (Queuing vs Pub/Sub)
      • HTTP/HTTPS protocol knowledge
      • Relational Database knowledge (Primary keys, Indexes, Foreign keys, SQL)
      • Basic cryptographic knowledge (symmetric/asymmetric encryption mechanisms)
      • Web-based application security mechanisms (OAuth, HMAC)
      • Knowledge of RESTful architectural style
      • Experience writing API specifications
      • Experience troubleshooting performance issues
      • Hands-on Knowledge on Design Patterns - Great understanding in the following design patterns: Singleton, Factory, Observer, Builder, Adapter, Publisher/Subscriber, Decorator.
      • Hands On Knowledge on Data Structures - Using Lists, Sets, Maps, Linked Lists, Queues, Stacks.
      • Hands-on Knowledge of Algorithms- solve coding problems on whiteboard, Big O notation, time, and space complexity of the algorithms. Preferred Qualifications :
        • 7+ years' Experience in Full Stack Development
        • Experience engaging in technology platforms supporting complex business engagements and engineering collaborations Required Education :
          • Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Related Disciplines, or Equivalent Professional Experience Preferred Education :
            • Masters degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Related Disciplines, or Equivalent Professional Experience

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