Software Engineer

The Walt Disney Company • Vista, FL

14d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Software Engineer (Android) you will have an opportunity to work on innovative Food and Beverage features for Walt Disney Parks & Resorts. You will be working in an Agile environment, delivering maintainable code, learning best practices, mentoring junior developers and would be given plenty of opportunities to innovate. In this role, you are expected to be able to act autonomously for day-to-day activities. The ideal candidate is passionate about Java/Kotlin, Android, technology, apps, and machine learning.

Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years of experience in developing Android applications.
• Expert level knowledge: Object Oriented Programming
• Expert understanding of Computer Science Fundamentals.
• Strong Android development skills with a proven record of creating commercial quality software.
• Strong knowledge of unit testing and behavioral testing
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Strong problem solving and analysis skills.
• Understanding of importance of maintainable / sustainable product solutions
• Experience with developing mobile applications that interface with RESTful services
• Experience with developing applications that run on multiple mobile devices with different form factors
• Understanding of mobile application accessibility
• Experience with Git & GitHub
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
• Experience reviewing and updating requirements and/or user stories
• Experience writing technical documentation

Nice To Haves

• Experience with analytics and/or crash reporting tools (NewRelic, Crashlytics etc)
• Experience implementing custom views, animations etc
• Experience with Machine Learning/AI
• Experience with Android build management and provisioning
• Experience with Bluetooth, NFC, location APIs
• Experience with embedded local storage solutions such as SQLite, Realm etc
• iOS development experience
• Back-end development experience

Responsibilities

• Develop commercial native Android applications
• Write efficient, reliable, and maintainable code, whether implementing architectural improvements, user-facing features, or fixing defects
• Analyzing user stories and participating in sprint planning, scrums, demos and retrospectives
• Integrating mobile application code with back-end services
• Understanding the need for optimized / customized mobile service responses / payloads
• Negotiating and adjusting requirements by collaborating with internal business partners
• Learning new technologies when required
• Performing peer code reviews for immediate and related teams
• Understanding of continuous integration / continuous delivery concepts and the ability to troubleshoot related issues
• Participate in conceiving and setting the architectural direction

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level