Job Requirements

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. 

This position is with Euro Disney Associes SAS, which is part of a business we call Disneyland Paris.

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