Job Posting Title:

Senior Android Engineer

Req ID:

10085249

Job Description:

“We Power the Magic!” That’s our motto at Disney Experiences Technology & Digital. 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.

We are responsible for the end-to-end digital and physical Guest experience for all technology and digital-led initiatives across the Attractions & Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Resorts & Transportation and Merchandise lines of business as well as other initiatives including MyDisneyExperience and Hey, Disney!

This role is a part of the Retail & Restaurant Commerce Technology organization within Disney Experiences Technology & Digital. It works closely with a diverse team of engineers and service owners from across the company.

What You’ll Do

• Design and develop and provide oversight for mobile solutions for our existing and new platform.
• Analyze user stories, provide realistic estimations, and participate in sprint planning, scrums, demos, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with product, and other stakeholders in defining solutions that are scalable, easily maintainable and within the expected budget and timeline.
• Create detailed mobile software development documentation and assist in assigning tasks to team members.
• Build well-designed, well-engineered, stable, performant mobile applications using Flutter, Kotlin, and/or Java.
• Guide and mentor other team members by providing oversight and direction.
• Recommend improvements to processes, technologies, and coding practices that improve the team's effectiveness.
• Strong ability to maintain focus and problem solve in a dynamic, fast-paced environment working with cross-functional teams.
• Keep up to date with the current technologies and latest trends, be able to innovate and provide creative solutions to existing and new problems.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• At least 5 years of experience building highly scalable and performant production level applications.
• Strong experience using Kotlin and Java in building Android consumer-facing applications.
• Contribute to the entire development cycle, including technical design, development, testing, experimentation, analysis, and product launch.
• Proven collaboration skills and ability to communicate about software processes, architectures, and design patterns across various teams.
• Experience mentoring junior team members and the ability to deliver encouraging and constructive feedback.
• Experience working in an Agile Team consisting of product managers, project managers, design, QA, and tech.
• Solid understanding of mobile development, design principles, patterns, and best practices related to application development concepts, designs, and architectures.
• Excellent communication skills required to interact with senior leaders, technical colleagues, and partners.
• Self-motivated, quick learner, passion for consumer software.
• Strong problem-solving and analysis skills.
• Strong knowledge of unit testing and continuous integration.
• Experience developing applications using Flutter.
• Deep knowledge and experience of managing, orchestrating, and monitoring distributed production systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of cross-platform development frameworks, such as Flutter/Dart.
• Knowledge of Typescript
• Understanding of modern SRE best practices.
• Familiarity with AI (Artificial Intelligence) subsets such as Machine Learning, Large Language Models (LLM) and Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field/work experience.

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Job Posting Segment:

Technology & Digital

Job Posting Primary Business:

Commerce

Primary Job Posting Category:

Software Engineer

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2024-04-29