Software Engineering Manager

Software Engineering Manager - Backend

Experience Range:

Location:

Backend Development:

Basic Qualifications

• Have 8-10 years of experience in web application development or software engineering in a large enterprise environment using modern frameworks (e.g., ASP.NET Core, Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Have 2-3 years of experience in software engineering management, managing teams that deliver high-quality software
• Be able to demonstrate significant experience working with relational databases, SQL Server, RDS and newer NoSQL data stores as well as event streaming platforms such as Kafka
• Familiarity with cloud native technologies such as AWS and Azure
• Have a strong interest in open source technology
• Possess good communication skills and enjoy mentoring and helping others to succeed as a team
• Care about your craft and have opinions about the right way to do things with technology
• Demonstrated experience providing technical direction and influencing design decisions across teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous work experience in Ad tech applications.
• Experience working with vendor teams to deliver high quality results.
• Knowledge of performance testing and application profiling.
• Strong curiosity about how Disney delivers the Magic and a desire to be a part of it.
• Track record of driving complex features or systems from inception to production in a leadership capacity.
• Experience contributing to long-term technical roadmaps and engineering strategy.

Experience with:

• Technology stack includes .NET Core, C#, ASP.NET Core, Spring Boot, Java and REST APIs.
• Data persistence utilizing a mix of relational and NoSQL databases including SQL Server, Oracle, Aurora, Redis, ElasticSearch, DynamoDB and RavenDB
• Data streaming stack that includes Kafka.
• Azure and AWS cloud and cloud native stack such as K8s, Key Vaults, Azure Storage, S3
• Unit testing using NUnit
• Object Oriented Programming fundamentals and in depth understanding of Dependency Injection
• Docker containers orchestrated via AKS and EKS
• Observability stack that includes Splunk, Datadog and Grafana
• Experience guiding platform-wide architectural improvements or modernization initiatives
• Experience evaluating and selecting new technologies or tools for team-wide adoption.

Required Education:

• Minimum a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, or another technical field.
• Prefer Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related technical discipline is highly desirable