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The Walt Disney Company

Posted 13 Oct 2026

Lead Software Engineer

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Employment
Full time
Team
Software Engineering
Posted
13 Oct 2026

About the role

Full-stack application development using NodeJS, Express, and React in a TypeScript stack to create, maintain, and support a near-real-time reporting and visualisation platform from the API layer outward. This role involves planning discussions, team interactions, and creating feature proposals while serving as a core member of the engineering team building a platform focused on optimised processes, maintainability, and accountability.


Responsibilities:

  • Contribute to and lead the successful implementation of solutions for the platform and occasionally broader technology teams.
  • Lead the development of frameworks, environments, build systems, and tooling for the platform.
  • Lead platform-level support of visualisation tools for enterprise reporting through APIs and embedded reporting.
  • Lead the unification of numerous tools into a consistent and coherent application.
  • Lead strategic analysis of existing technologies, future projects, and execution options.
  • Define project and platform architecture and drive its adoption.
  • Develop full-stack applications as part of a unified platform and user experience.
  • Write concise, optimised, and well-tested code.
  • Lead team discussions and planning sessions.
  • Support a broad platform of associated tooling through on-call rotation.
  • Deliver functional and supportable products as part of an agile development team.
  • Work closely with product managers, UX designers, technical program managers, and partner teams to decompose complex problems into simple, reusable solutions.
  • Write documentation for platform functionality and processes to support knowledge transfer.
  • Review teammates' code and pull requests for quality, standards alignment, and test coverage.
  • Mentor other engineers and support the broader engineering community on technical issues.
  • Promote clean code practices and shared-code best practices.


Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or a closely related field.
  • 7+ years of progressive experience in software development, including automated testing of front-end and back-end services.
  • Proficiency in application development using NodeJS and React with JavaScript and TypeScript.
  • 7+ years of experience in full-stack application development with GraphQL and Postgres.
  • 7+ years of experience delivering high test coverage using unit and front-end testing frameworks.
  • 5+ years of experience building cross-functional and broadly scoped platforms.
  • Extensive experience with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform and CloudFormation.
  • Extensive experience with Docker and container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, EKS, and ECS.
  • Extensive experience developing and maintaining CI/CD environments.
  • Extensive experience with front-end visualisation of large data sets using tools such as D3 and Linkurious.
  • Extensive experience with testing libraries and frameworks such as Selenium, JUnit, and Jest.
  • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
  • Strong organisational skills, attention to detail, and ability to deliver projects on time.
  • Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills.
  • Highly motivated and self-starting.


Nice To Have:

  • Experience with in-house LLM infrastructure and software or OpenAI tools, including training others.
  • Experience with large-scale data platforms such as Druid, Databricks, and Snowflake.
  • Experience maintaining and collaborating on a shared React component library.
  • Experience creating and maintaining documentation.
  • Experience developing applications on cloud platforms such as AWS.
  • Experience working with Agile methodologies.
  • Working knowledge of web accessibility fundamentals.
  • Experience with Kafka, Amazon SQS, or Kinesis.

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