Senior Software Engineer

About This Role

This Senior Software Engineer role involves building and supporting mission-critical middleware services for Disney Cruise Line, initially enabling a major capital project and evolving into broader enterprise integrations. The position requires designing, developing, testing, and implementing highly scalable software components and applications.

Responsibilities

• Lead small projects encompassing analysis, design, programming, debugging, and modification of software enhancements and/or new products
• Perform testing and debugging of applications
• Code at the component level for large or highly sophisticated software programs and systems
• Define system requirements and/or necessary modifications by interacting with users
• Conceive, design, develop, test, and implement software components, fixes, improvements, and/or new systems and applications
• Design and develop highly scalable software systems and applications
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies

Requirements

• Mastery in Java
• Experience with industry standard opensource technologies like Spring, Tomcat, Nginx, Elastic Search
• Expertise designing APIs and building RESTful services
• Experience developing Java services against relational databases (Oracle preferred)
• Comfortable working in an agile environment and experience with Agile Delivery (Stand Ups, Sprint Planning, etc)
• Proficiency in Software Engineering principals
• Experience with full lifecycle of application development, including best practices of unit testing, code reviews, documentation
• Experience with build and deployment technologies such as Jenkins/Gitlab/Harness CICD and Docker
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools including Grafana, App Dynamics and Splunk
• Experience with performance tuning
• Experience working with cloud platforms and container orchestration technologies, including AWS, Kubernetes, and Rancher
• Strong communication skills and attention to detail

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or foreign equivalent Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
• Minimum 5 years of related work experience

Nice to Have

• Experience creating, modifying, and troubleshooting Oracle PL/SQL packages, stored procedures, and function
• Familiarity with event-driven and messaging architectures (e.g., Kafka, SNS/SQS, JMS, or similar)
• Experience with API management platforms (e.g., Apigee, Kong, Mulesoft, or similar)
• Knowledge of security best practices for APIs and distributed systems, including OAuth, JWT, TLS, and secrets management
• Experience supporting large-scale production systems, including incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident improvements
• Exposure to infrastructure as code and cloud provisioning tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm)
• Experience mentoring junior developers and acting as a technical thought partner within a team
• Experience collaborating with product, architecture, and platform teams to translate requirements into technical solutions that meet Company and architectural standards
• Prior experience contributing to capital projects or large transformation initiatives
• Master’s or foreign equivalent Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering

Skills

* Required skills