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.
This role sits in the Commerce Lodging organisation within Technology & Digital for Disney Experiences. It works closely with UI engineering, Quality Engineering, and Product teams from across the company.
As the senior service layer engineer for the Lodging & Resort Sales commerce team, you will be responsible for the APIs that power guest-facing resort booking, modifications, and cancellation experiences across Walt Disney World and Disneyland Resort.
Responsibilities:
- Architect and implement Java/Spring Boot microservices for revenue-critical commerce flows , reservation booking, modifications, and cancellations across guest-facing experiences including Mods Hub, Disney Add-Ons, and Reservation Cancellation for Walt Disney World and Disneyland Resort
- Own end-to-end API delivery from design through production deployment across multi-environment pipelines (Dev → Latest → Stage → Load → Production)
- Collaborate with and guide a small team of offshore service developers , assigning work, reviewing code, making architectural decisions, and validating feature completeness
- Design service-oriented architecture including DAO patterns, Feign client integrations, and downstream service connectors for Disney's proprietary commerce ecosystem
- Manage AuthZ scope provisioning, Nimbus and Vault environment configuration, and Splunk and AppDynamics observability dashboards
- Resolve P1/P2 production incidents across Consumer, Travel Agent, Cast, and TAAP booking, modifications, and cancellation flows
- Partner with UI, QE, Product, and cross-functional teams to solution technical approaches and unblock delivery
- Conceive, design, develop, test, and implement software components, fixes, improvements, and/or new systems and applications
- Stay up to date with emerging technologies
Requirements:
- Minimum 5 years of related work experience (Software Engineering)
- Comfortable working in an Agile environment
- Experience delivering across multiple concurrent workstreams with shared dependencies
- Experience managing multi-environment deployment pipelines (development through production) including configuration management and environment-specific provisioning
- Proficiency in Java/Spring Boot microservices, RESTful API design and implementation, service-oriented architecture patterns (DAO, Feign clients, service connectors), AWS cloud services, and CI/CD pipelines (Harness), with a proactive demeanor towards continuous learning and skill development, and an interest in mastering emerging software engineering tools and methodologies
- Proficiency in AI-assisted development tools (Amazon Q Developer, Kiro, GitHub Copilot, Claude) , must demonstrate creative application of AI to accelerate code generation, debugging, testing, and delivery velocity
Benefits: The hiring range for this position in Orlando is $135,200.00- 164,800.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.