# Lead Software Engineer

**Company**: Disney Experiences
**Location**: Lake Buena Vista, FL
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $150,500.00 to $201,800.00 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We Power the Magic! That's our motto at Disney Experiences (DX). Our team creates world-class immersive digital experiences for the Company's premier vacation brands including Disney's Parks & Resorts worldwide, Disney Cruise Line, Aulani, a Disney Resort & Spa, and Disney Vacation Club.

As a Lead Software Engineer in the Retail, Restaurant & Supply Chain Technology organization within Technology & Digital for Disney Experiences, you will report to the Manager, Software Engineering. You will lead and personally build scalable, well-documented software systems, applications, APIs, and RESTful services using Java, AWS/cloud-native patterns, relational and NoSQL databases, messaging, and orchestration technologies.

Key responsibilities:

- Lead and build software systems, applications, APIs, and services

- Champion AI-driven development and architecture

- Set architectural direction and coordinate with stakeholders

- Own dining and bookable experience reservation systems

- Integrate and support complex systems across databases, messaging, and orchestration platforms

- Drive engineering quality and continuous improvement

- Collaborate cross-functionally with product owners, engineering partners, and other stakeholders

Required qualifications and skills:

- 7+ years of experience building large-scale software systems and web applications

- Expertise with enterprise architecture repository tools

- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-domain architectural initiatives

- Experience developing and managing architecture taxonomies, patterns, and standards

- Proven ability to align architecture with strategic objectives

- Hands-on familiarity with cloud platforms, API-led integration, security-by-design, and data architecture principles

- Strong hands-on skills in Java 21+, Spring, microservices, and RESTful APIs

- Deep experience with AWS, databases, Kafka, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience in Disney, Food & Beverage, Attractions & Entertainment domain

The hiring range for this position in Lake Buena Vista, FL is $150,500.00 to $201,800.00 per year.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- AWS
- cloud-native patterns
- relational databases
- NoSQL databases
- messaging
- orchestration technologies
- enterprise architecture repository tools
- API-led integration
- security-by-design
- data architecture principles
- Spring
- microservices
- RESTful APIs
- DynamoDB
- Aurora
- MongoDB
- Kafka
- Docker
- CI/CD pipelines

### Nice to have
- Disney
- Food & Beverage
- Attractions & Entertainment

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