Sr. Product Development Engineer II

Requirements:

• Hold a bachelor's degree in computer science, computer information systems, engineering, or another technical field.
• Have 5+ years of experience in web application development or software engineering in a large enterprise environment using modern frameworks.
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Have strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Have a strong understanding of microservice architecture.
• Have expertise in Java, including core libraries, concurrency, and memory management.
• Have expertise in the Sprint Boot framework, including modules such as Spring Data, Sprint Security and Spring Cloud.
• Have strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Have strong expertise in ORM frameworks like Hibernate and database design best practices.
• Have strong experience with Kafka, Kinesis, and Redis (Elasticache).
• Have a strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Docker/containerisation, Kubernetes/orchestration and AWS.
• Have expertise with cloud infrastructure technologies: Terraform, K8S, Spinnaker, IAM, ALB, etc.
• Have experience working with observability tooling such as DataDog.
• Have a track record of championing quality engineering and be adamant that all code is written in a way that can be tested with unit tests.
• Have experience working with high-performing teams using Agile and Lean methodologies and frameworks.
• Have the ability to adapt to new technologies and changing project requirements.
• Have the capability to align technical decisions with business goals to drive innovation within the team.
• Care about your craft and have opinions about the right way to do things with technology.

Preferred Experience/Education/Skills:

• A master's degree in computer science, software engineering or a related technical discipline is highly desirable.
• Experience creating performant user interfaces leveraging HTML/CSS/JS and React or other frameworks.
• Experience with AI (GenAI, Azure/OpenAI APIs, and machine learning).
• Previous work experience in digital advertising.
• Experience working with vendor teams to deliver high-quality results.
• Strong curiosity about how Disney delivers the magic and a desire to be a part of it.

Bonus Experience/Education/Skills:

• Experience building order management systems supporting quote-to-cash.
• Experience working on design systems.