Junior software developer Jobs in Burbank, CA

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Job Requirements

“We Power the Magic!” That’s our motto at Disney Experiences (DX). Our team creates world-class immersive digital experiences for the Company’s premier vacation brands including Disney’s Parks & Resorts worldwide, Disney Cruise Line, Aulani, a Disney Resort & Spa, and Disney Vacation Club.

Our team has been involved in the creation of many technologies, recently we created the Award winning Hey Disney. We work on improving safety with smart systems used in attractions. We are heavily researching on how to use ML and LLMS in future relevance for the company. Investigation of automation systems and simulations with digital twins.

Emerging Tech is a unique team in that we move rapidly on projects; we can spend weeks on a project or months depending on the scope. Our projects can be hardware related or software. It is not repetitive and it varies greatly. You’ll be mentored by very seasoned leadership, and you’ll thrive as an engineer in our constantly learning environment.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you are creating software solutions that are intended to be handed over to full production teams. You’ll work at problem solving and creating solutions for problems and then working with these teams to integrate. Expect to work on multiple projects per year across varying disciplines and areas of our parks business. For this reason, candidate Senior Engineers need to be very flexible and open to working on different projects, use different languages, and support varying platforms. This is an ever-evolving position.

Responsibilities:

In this role, you will design, develop high-volume software systems and APIs that support guest- and cast-facing products across Disney Experiences. You will work with minimal guidance, act as a resource for less experienced engineers, and lead small projects that require strong problem-solving skills, clear communication, and the ability to explain difficult concepts to diverse stakeholders.

• Conceive, design, develop, test, and implement software components, fixes, improvements, and new systems and applications across cloud-based and internet-related platforms.
• Design and implement reliable, high-throughput, low-latency, scalable, and well-documented code, including complex algorithms and distributed web services.
• Develop and optimize microservices, RESTful APIs, and event-driven architectures to support our platforms.
• Collaborate with product owners, architects, quality engineers, and business stakeholders to gather requirements, refine user stories, and deliver solutions that meet business needs and follow best engineering practices.
• Work independently to analyze and solve issues, troubleshoot production and lower-environment problems, and proactively improve application performance and reliability.
• Participate in and lead regular code reviews, maintain coding standards, and contribute to documentation, procedures, and work instructions for development and operations teams.
• Leverage CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools, and DevOps practices (, Splunk, Swagger, AppDynamics, New Relic, Harness, Rundeck) to ensure secure, high-quality, and observable software delivery.
• Manage ownership and maintain of our team’s internal authentication AuthZ service and Keystone Service used for validating access to internal projects when required.
• Stay current with new emerging technologies and help identify where and when these can be used within Disney Experiences.
• Identify systems and continual review of systems for potential improvements and solutions.
• Documentation of systems and submission of patents when identified.
• Mentor and support less experienced developers, providing technical guidance, reviewing deliverables, and helping the team adopt best practices and emerging technologies such as AI-assisted development tools

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience in designing, building, and maintaining production-grade systems.
• Experienced full stack developer, both web and mobile.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript, Dart, Swift, Python and object-oriented programming, frameworks centered around Nodejs, NestJS, NextJS, Vue, Svelte, React and Angular.
• Experience designing, developing, and implementing highly scalable, high-volume software systems, web applications, and distributed services.
• Proficiency with microservices architectures, RESTful web services, and APIs, including API design and integration with existing frameworks.
• Strong LLM API experience for OpenAI, Google and Anthropic models and MCP servers, agentic systems.
• Strong Agile Development environment experience.
• Experience developing cloud-native applications using AWS or similar cloud platforms, including containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, database design, and writing complex queries for high-performance applications.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools and practices, source control, and build/deploy pipelines for modern software delivery.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and performance optimization using tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics, New Relic, or similar solutions.
• Effective problem-solving skills, with the ability to work independently, act as a mentor to colleagues, and communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging technologies such as Kafka, JMS, RabbitMQ, or Pub/Sub.
• Knowledge of Oauth, AuthZ and Keystone authentication system implementations.
• Experience with IOS, Android development, frameworks such as flutter a plus
• Experience in specific database systems Postgres, Redis, DynamoDB
• Familiarity with Java, C/C++ would be beneficial

Disclaimer

PAY TRANSPARENCY

This position is with Walt Disney Attractions Technology LLC, which is part of a business we call Disney Experiences.

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