Lead Developer - CDI - F/H/NB
Job Summary:
Voici votre chance de vivre une aventure professionnelle unique !
Your environment
The Digital Technology Department delivers enterprise-scale digital solutions supporting Disneyland Paris commerce, Guest experience, integrations, and operational systems. We are seeking an experienced Lead Developer who combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership. You will guide solution design, strengthen engineering practices, mentor developers, and help ensure the successful delivery and operation of strategic digital initiatives.
Your responsibilities
Lead solution design for large-scale applications, services, and integrations.
Provide hands-on engineering contributions for complex or high-risk components.
Guide architecture decisions within the team and ensure alignment with enterprise standards.
Establish and reinforce coding standards, code-review practices, and engineering guardrails.
Partner with Product Managers, Architects, and Delivery Leads to translate objectives into executable technical plans.
Drive estimation, sequencing, delivery quality, and technical risk management across initiatives.
Mentor developers through design reviews, pairing, coaching, and constructive technical feedback.
Promote secure development, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and operational readiness.
Support incident response, root-cause analysis, performance improvement, and reliability initiatives.
Evaluate approved technologies and AI-assisted engineering practices that can improve quality, flow, and developer productivity.
Collaborate effectively with international teams, vendors, and business stakeholders.
Serve as the principal technical leader for the Front-End and Digital Commerce ecosystem, defining platform strategy, modernization roadmaps, engineering standards, AI adoption, and architecture direction across multiple product teams and shared services.
Advocate for AI-assisted and Agentic software engineering, developer productivity improvements, platform automation, and modern software delivery practices across the organization.
Own the technical strategy and roadmap for projects ensuring alignment with business priorities, scalability requirements, platform modernization goals, and long-term sustainability.
Define and govern engineering standards for mocking, service virtualization, contract testing, integration testing, and quality engineering best practices.
Define standards, lifecycle management, upgrade strategies, and governance for JavaScript frameworks, shared frontend libraries, and engineering tooling.
Lead platform modernization initiatives including Node.js, Next.js, Vitest, analytics libraries, shared services, and other strategic technical migrations.
Establish performance engineering standards focused on Core Web Vitals, page performance, accessibility, scalability, reliability, and overall user experience.
Collaborate closely with Product, Architecture, Quality Engineering, Security, Operations, and Business stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into scalable technical solutions.
Mentor senior engineers and technical leads, fostering engineering excellence, knowledge sharing, architectural consistency, and continuous professional development.
Technical environment
LANGUAGES
JavaScript, , TypeScript,
FRAMEWORKS
React, Next.js
ARCHITECTURE
REST APIs, OpenAPI,
CLOUD
AWS, CDN, Terraform
ENGINEERING TOOLCHAIN
GitHub / Gitlab, CI/CD orchestrator (Harness, Gitlab CI, ..),, Nexus, Docker
OBSERVABILITY
Splunk, Grafana, AppDynamics, CloudWatch
What you bring
At least 8 years of software engineering experience.
At least 3 years in a technical lead, lead developer, or comparable senior engineering role.
Experience delivering enterprise-scale applications and integrations.
Strong knowledge of software architecture, design patterns, cloud-native development, and API design.
Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical decisions.
Experience with production operations, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience working with distributed or international delivery teams.
Fluent English; working French proficiency is strongly valued.
How you will succeed
Lead through technical credibility, collaboration, and clear decision-making.
Balance delivery, quality, security, performance, and operational sustainability.
Make pragmatic decisions, explain trade-offs, and manage technical risk transparently.
Develop others and raise engineering capability across the team.
Promote an inclusive culture of ownership, continuous learning, and continuous improvement.
Why join us?
You will contribute to high-visibility digital products in an international and multicultural environment, with opportunities to develop your skills, collaborate across teams, and improve the digital experience of Disneyland Paris Guests.
Informations pratiques :
• Ce poste est un contrat en CDI au statut cadre.
• Ce poste est basé à Marne-La-Vallée
• Des conditions de travail favorables à votre épanouissement, une politique
de télétravail, si vous êtes éligibles (10 jours de télétravail par mois) vous
permettant de concilier votre vie personnelle et professionnelle.
La différence Disneyland Paris ?
• Un environnement exceptionnel, international et multiculturel, concentré sur
un site unique
• Un environnement où les valeurs d’inclusion et de diversité sont clé, dans
lequel chacun(e) est encouragé(e) à être authentique ;
• Une session d'intégration complète et un large éventail d'options de
formation pour le développement des compétences ;
• De nombreuses possibilités de carrière (promotion interne ou mobilité
horizontale) ;
Prêt(e) à participer à une formidable aventure humaine ? A rejoindre nos
collaborateurs (Cast Members) partageant la même ambition professionnelle :
celle de faire vivre la magie Disneyland Paris pour les millions de visiteurs qui
viennent dans nos parcs tous les ans ?
Il ne vous reste plus qu’à postuler car nous sommes prêts à vous donner les
moyens de faire rayonner vos talents !
About Disneyland Paris:
Disneyland® Paris is a company where dreams really do come true. Here, our Cast Members work on stage or backstage, in hundreds of professions. Their mission: offering every guest an unforgettable Disney Experience at our 2 theme parks and our 7 hotels as well as Disney Village. The passion and enthusiasm of our teams has made our company the number one tourist destination in Europe!
Creating dreams carries with it many responsibilities. For our resort, long-term development must be rooted in a sustainable tourism model. We have made important social & environmental commitments, which we seek to implement with the continuous involvement of our employees and stakeholders.
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 Euro Disney Associes SAS, which is part of a business we call Disneyland Paris.
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