Mgr, Software Engineering

Job Posting Title:

Mgr, Software Engineering

Req ID:

10152876

Job Description:

Job Summary:

At Disney, we’re storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. Walt’s passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world—a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from theme parks, resorts and a cruise line to sports, news, movies and a variety of other businesses. Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences — and we’re constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences.

Disney Experiences is seeking an engineering manager who has passion for leading the delivery and execution of various projects in the roadmap of advancing our core commerce platform. We are looking for someone that will lead engineers, project and product managers and collaborate with other business and tech teams to develop, deliver and maintain mission critical applications.

You will:

• Lead and mentor world class delivery teams consisting of full stack software engineers, web developers, application architects, product managers and scrum masters. 
• Own application development and delivery for multiple large projects.
• Collaborate with other tech teams, businesses across sites for project deliverables, develop platform vision and roadmap.
• Develop and present project statuses, project concepts and platform roadmaps to senior leaders.
• Be responsible for technical analysis, effort estimation, product, and system design, evaluating architectural fit and compliance, resource schedules, delivery milestones and overall product quality.
• Display technical leadership and oversight of implementation and deployment planning, system integration, process improvements, quality assurance, delivery, operations, and sustainability of technical solutions.
• Resolve conflicts by demonstrating leadership and appropriate decision-making competencies.
• Enforce and grow a culture focused on quality and experience improvements.
• Ensure multiple concurrent ongoing projects and team objectives are resourced effectively to accomplish goals.
• Meet with stakeholders, vendor partners and customers on a recurring basis to review team priorities, execution and pertinent business/delivery updates. 
• Effectively manage project/solution timeline and financials including budget, cost, invoices and contracts.
• Support on-call response to critical operational issues; be able to work beyond normal hours and support implementation transition activities and hyper-care shifts as needed.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 8+ years of development experience, preferably full stack.
• Additional 5+ years managing engineering and technology delivery teams.
• Demonstrated knowledge and working experience with highly-scalable architectures, patterns, and technologies, specifically Java, GraphQL, NoSQL and Event-Driven Architecture.
• Experience creating architecture designs that incorporate resiliency and performance.
• Experience managing a globally distributed delivery team utilizing Agile methodologies.
• Good troubleshooting skills for triaging problems in production and test environments
• Experience in a large media, technology or internet company.
• Success at achieving sophisticated technology goals on-time and on-budget.
• A comfort level with complex, matrixed organizations containing a certain amount of ambiguity.
• Excellent written and verbal communications, proven ability to develop and deliver presentations geared for Executive Management.
• Proven experience managing software development lifecycle platforms and tools.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience in the commerce space and products / pricing / inventory domains
• Experience in travel and hospitality/hotel industries

Qualifications and Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s in computer science, engineering, information systems, or related field/work experience.

Job Posting Segment:

DX Technology

Job Posting Primary Business:

Commerce

Primary Job Posting Category:

Software Engineer

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Bangalore, India

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2026-06-12