Lead Software Engineer

Disney
Bristol, United Kingdom
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
£ 209K

Job location

Remote
Bristol, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Java
.NET
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Data analysis
Azure
Cloud Engineering
Code Generation
Code Review
Information Systems
Disaster Recovery
Distributed Systems
Identity and Access Management
Performance Tuning
Cloud Services
Software Engineering
Data Streaming
Systems Integration
Spring-boot
Information Technology
Kafka
Terraform
Microservices

Job description

Lead Software Engineer - Data Streaming/Integration PlatformsRole Location: This is an on-site role requiring 4 days in-person at designated office location., Job Summary:We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to help build, enhance, and scale our cloud-based messaging and integration platforms. In this role, you will design, develop, and support event-streaming solutions at scale. You will also build and maintain custom microservices based applications that provide platform administration, operational tooling, and integrations with enterprise products and third-party systems.

Beyond hands-on development, you will serve as a key technical leader-setting architectural direction, mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, and championing best practices in software development, cost-efficient architecture, and maintainable design.

This role offers the opportunity to shape core platform strategy, lead complex distributed systems engineering, and collaborate across the organization to deliver high-quality, reliable, and scalable products.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

Build, enhance, and support highly scalable, reliable, and cost-optimized cloud-based event-streaming and integration platforms.

Use Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines to deploy and manage cloud resources.

Enhance and support Spring Boot/Java microservices based applications for administration and operation of messaging platform.

Design, develop and support integration services connecting enterprise products and third-party systems.

Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and conduct code reviews.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact solutions.

Ensure performance, reliability, and observability across the platforms.

Champion engineering excellence in areas such as IaC, microservices design, price-performance optimization, and observability.

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Requirements

7+ years of experience in Software Engineering with a strong focus on Java, Infrastructure as Code.

Extensive hands-on experience designing and supporting cloud solutions in AWS, including container orchestration using Amazon EKS.

Extensive "Infrastructure as Code" experience, with advanced proficiency in Terraform for provisioning and automating cloud resources.

Extensive hands-on experience in administrating, deploying, and optimizing messaging platform, especially Apache Kafka.

Proficient in Spring Boot / Java development, with a strong focus on microservices architecture.

Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to identifying and resolving issues.

Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience working across teams.

Comfortable working in a geographically distributed team.

Preferred Qualifications

Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems preferred.

Familiarity with Amazon Q or similar generative AI-assistant for cloud development, troubleshooting, and code generation.

Familiarity with Azure and GCP cloud services, including compute, networking, IAM, and container orchestration.

Familiarity with multi-region, high-availability, or disaster recovery architectures.

Required Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.

Benefits & conditions

The hiring range for this position in CT is $155,700 - $208,700 per year and in NY is $159,500 - $213,900 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

About the company

Technology is at the heart of Disney's past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more - all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney's media business globally. The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company's media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world. Here are a few reasons why we think you'd love working here: Building the future of Disney's media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come. Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney's technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company's brands and stories. Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, ABC, ABC News, and many more. These products and brands - and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry - matter to millions of people globally. Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems. Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity., Palantir Data Engineer Our client is a Leading Digital Transformation Consultancy who have been named a Times Top 100 Company To Work For for 7 consecutive years. As a Palantir Data Engineer, you will join a highly regarded digital, data, and technology consultancy..., About Us At Squarcle, our people are at the heart of what we do. We're a digitally native supply chain consultancy, helping clients transform how they plan, buy, and operate. Squarcle is a fast-growing, award-winning SME with offerings across enterprise design and change,..., About us Founded in 2008, CitNOW is an innovative, enterprise-level software product suite that allows automotive dealerships globally to sell more vehicles and parts more profitably. CitNOW's app-based platform provides a secure, brand-compliant solution - for dealers to..., Overview Company Description AECOM is delivering a better world. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world's most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations. We are a global team delivering..., Newton Blue £80,000 Were working with a Bristol based tech co. a leading worldwide supplier of software to health insurers, with an extensive platform consisting of Core back office automation, Open API and integration suite and Digital solutions serving the insurance value chain. Currently..., Role- Lead Software Engineer- Tax & Legal Technology -108720 Location -London KPMG UK offices | KPMG UK We are a team of 300+ technologists providing technology enablement services and solutions across the Tax and Legal business. This business has 2,500 tax & legal...

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