Lead Software Engineer

Job ID 10147698 Location Orlando, Florida, United States Business Disney Experiences Date posted Apr. 16, 2026

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Job Summary:

Department Description:

At Disney Experiences Technology (DXT), 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.

Team Description:
Cast and Parks Operations within DXT is seeking a Lead Software Engineer with a passion for building world-class products and a desire to transform the way the Walt Disney Company interacts with its Cast. The Lead Software Engineer applies practical knowledge of technologies and concepts to lead software engineering teams on large projects, provides technical guidance and oversight, and is a point of escalation and technical expert. As part of the Cast and Parks Operations team, you will participate in changing the landscape of critical, Cast-facing software solutions. These systems are responsible for functions ranging from optimizing the efficiency of park operations to dramatically improving the way training is delivered to our Cast. In this role, you will work with an accomplished and supportive team of resources and leadership to create the connected experiences that make Disney an employer of choice.

Responsibilities of the Role:

You Will:

Drive technical strategy and design decisions and the reduction of technical debt for complex web-based solutions, including SPAs, Electron apps, and microservices.
Ensure best practices in CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment for multi-region environments.
Mentor and coach engineering team members on modern frameworks (Node.js, .NET, Javascript, Typescript, Angular, etc.) and cloud-first design principles, providing sound technical guidance and oversight.
Collaborate cross-functionally with product teams, business teams, and other technology teams to deliver secure, performant, and maintainable solutions with high value to business partners.
Champion observability and reliability by implementing monitoring, logging, and alerting strategies for global deployments.
Influence technology roadmap by evaluating tools and frameworks for scalability, security, and developer productivity.
Ensure best practices in writing clean, testable code and the unit and automated tests that go with it that serve to reduce error prone manual testing efforts, and increase reliability of releases
Drive innovation for existing large software solutions as well as new opportunities that would significantly impact future development and increasing value to the business

Qualifications:

A minimum of 8 years of software engineering experience in design, development, and implementation of highly scalable software systems and components
A minimum of 2 years of proven experience in technical leadership
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Deep expertise in cloud-native architectures, preferably AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, etc).
Experience working with RDBMS (MariaDB, MySQL, etc) and working with large datasets used for predictive analysis
Strong proficiency in Node.js and C#/.NET Core, with experience building SPAs and desktop apps using Electron.
Hands-on experience with RESTful APIs and serverless architecture and their security using authentication/authorization (OAuth 2.0, JWT).
Proven track record in designing highly scalable, globally distributed systems.
Experience with DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines and containerization (Docker)
Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with ability to influence technical direction across teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with AWS serverless computing solutions or similar cloud platforms
Experience with C#/.NET
Experience designing and developing mobile applications
Experience with infrastructure-as-code
Experience working with globally distributed teams
Master’s degree in computer science or equivalent work experience.

Required Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar field or related work experience.

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About Disney Experiences:

Disney Experiences brings the magic of Disney stories and franchises to life through theme parks, resorts, cruise ships, unique vacation experiences, products and more around the world. Disney shines in the travel industry with six resort destinations in the United States, Europe and Asia; a top-rated cruise line; a popular vacation ownership program; and an award-winning guided family adventure business. Plus, Disney's global consumer products operations include the world's leading licensing business; the world's largest children's publishing brands; one of the world's largest licensors of games across all platforms; and Disney store locations around the world and on the web.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

This position is with Walt Disney Attractions Technology LLC, which is part of a business we call Disney Experiences.

Walt Disney Attractions Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.

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