About the role
As a Full-Stack Product Software Engineering Architect, you will be a hands-on technical leader, setting the standard for engineering excellence as you drive the architecture, design, and delivery of resilient, large-scale, distributed platforms. You'll impact technical direction and architecture across the organisation, mentor fellow engineers, and ensure our systems are robust, secure, and future-ready.
Responsibilities:
- Architect, design, implement, and support secure, highly scalable, distributed, and decoupled backend and frontend systems for programmatic advertising.
- Set technical direction and ensure alignment with best practices in code quality, maintainability, observability, and performance.
- Establish, champion, and evolve standards for system design, testing, monitoring, and deploying low-latency microservices.
- Act as a technical mentor, sharing knowledge, conducting code and design reviews, and helping engineers grow.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners, translating business and product requirements into technical roadmaps and robust solutions.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, identifying optimisations and enhancements to systems and processes.
- Support platform reliability by enhancing observability, promoting automated alerting, and participating in on-call rotations as needed.
- Ensure compliance with Disney's best practices and security policies, including use of AI and automation technologies.
- Serve as a domain authority and point of contact for technical stakeholders inside and outside engineering.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with a leadership track record.
- Advanced proficiency in Java and TypeScript.
- Expertise in JavaScript libraries and frameworks, including React and Node.js .
- In-depth experience building and scaling RESTful APIs and microservice architectures (preferably with Spring Boot).
- Strong hands-on knowledge of relational databases (MySQL, Postgres, etc. ), including schema and query design, as well as NoSQL (e. g., DynamoDB) database technologies.
- BS/MS in computer science, engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a track record of project ownership, technical leadership, and organisation-wide influence.
- Strong foundation in computer science principles, including data structures, algorithms, and system design.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Proven ability to influence engineering strategy and technical direction beyond the immediate team.
- Experience promoting best practices for security, code quality, and operational excellence in a large-scale, distributed environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in ad tech.
- Experience with programmatic advertising or real-time bidding platforms.
Experience with:
- Spring Boot and related Spring projects.
- Relational databases, such as MySQL or Postgres
- Non-relational database technologies like DynamoDB.
- JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as React, node.js .
- Caching datastores such as Redis, Valkey, or Memcached.
- Data streaming mechanisms such as Apache Kafka and/or AWS Kinesis.
- Cloud platforms such as AWS.
- Modern DevOps tools such as Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.