Walt Disney Animation Studios is seeking a Full-Stack Developer to bring stability, predictability, and technical excellence to their complex internal business application environment, supporting 15+ stakeholder departments and maintaining ~20 internal business applications.
Requirements
- Extensive Full-Stack Experience: 3+ years of proven experience in building, shipping, and maintaining complex, data-driven web applications in a production environment.
- Expert-Level Python & Django: Deep mastery of Python and the Django framework.
- Experience with RESTful/GraphQL APIs: Proven experience in the design, development, and maintenance of high-performance, scalable, and secure APIs.
- Strong Front-End Skills: Proficiency in a modern JavaScript-based framework, ideally React, and superset language, like Typescript.
- The 'Legacy Whisperer': You must be willing and able to read, understand, and refactor code you didn't write using all the tools at your disposal.
- Experience integrating AI features into web-based solutions to improve the experience of end users.
- Security Experience: Familiarity with securing web applications and services with modern authentication/authorization principles.
Responsibilities
- Lead Core Development: Take an ownership role in designing, building, and maintaining critical internal web applications using our React, Django, and Python stack.
- Crush the Backlog: Systematically work through our application backlog, delivering high-priority features and improvements with high-quality, tested code.
- Share Best Practices with the Team: Act as a technical leader and mentor for other developers in regards to best web and development practices.
- Tackle Legacy Systems: Fearlessly dive into our legacy applications (including PHP, Ruby, etc.) to troubleshoot, support, maintain, and strategically modernize them.
- Collaborate & Prioritize: Work directly with our 15+ stakeholder departments to understand their needs and translate them into clear technical requirements.
- Own the Architecture: Participate in architectural decisions and our 'build vs. buy' analysis for new projects, ensuring our solutions are scalable and maintainable.
- Drive Agile Practice: Be a role model for our collaborative, 2-week Agile sprint process, helping the team with accurate estimation and a focus on shipping value.
Other
- BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.
- Exceptional Communication: You are a clear, proactive communicator who can collaborate with technical peers and non-technical stakeholders alike.
- Pragmatic Problem-Solver: You have a 'get-it-done' attitude and an almost unflappable ability to context-shift and manage competing priorities without getting frustrated.
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- Visa requirements not specified
