Lead Developer

Job Posting Title:

Lead Developer - CDI - F/H/NB

Req ID:

10158786

Job Description:

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Your environment

The Digital Technology Department delivers enterprise-scale digital solutions supporting Disneyland Paris commerce, Guest experience, integrations, and operational systems. We are seeking an experienced Lead Developer who combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership. You will guide solution design, strengthen engineering practices, mentor developers, and help ensure the successful delivery and operation of strategic digital initiatives.

Your responsibilities

• Lead solution design for large-scale applications, services, and integrations.
• Provide hands-on engineering contributions for complex or high-risk components.
• Guide architecture decisions within the team and ensure alignment with enterprise standards.
• Establish and reinforce coding standards, code-review practices, and engineering guardrails.
• Partner with Product Managers, Architects, and Delivery Leads to translate objectives into executable technical plans.
• Drive estimation, sequencing, delivery quality, and technical risk management across initiatives.
• Mentor developers through design reviews, pairing, coaching, and constructive technical feedback.
• Promote secure development, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and operational readiness.
• Support incident response, root-cause analysis, performance improvement, and reliability initiatives.
• Evaluate approved technologies and AI-assisted engineering practices that can improve quality, flow, and developer productivity.
• Collaborate effectively with international teams, vendors, and business stakeholders.
• Serve as the principal technical leader for the Front-End and Digital Commerce ecosystem, defining platform strategy, modernization roadmaps, engineering standards, AI adoption, and architecture direction across multiple product teams and shared services.
• Advocate for AI-assisted and Agentic software engineering, developer productivity improvements, platform automation, and modern software delivery practices across the organization.
• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for projects ensuring alignment with business priorities, scalability requirements, platform modernization goals, and long-term sustainability.
• Define and govern engineering standards for mocking, service virtualization, contract testing, integration testing, and quality engineering best practices.
• Define standards, lifecycle management, upgrade strategies, and governance for JavaScript frameworks, shared frontend libraries, and engineering tooling.
• Lead platform modernization initiatives including Node.js, Next.js, Vitest, analytics libraries, shared services, and other strategic technical migrations.
• Establish performance engineering standards focused on Core Web Vitals, page performance, accessibility, scalability, reliability, and overall user experience.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Architecture, Quality Engineering, Security, Operations, and Business stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into scalable technical solutions.
• Mentor senior engineers and technical leads, fostering engineering excellence, knowledge sharing, architectural consistency, and continuous professional development.

Technical environment

LANGUAGES

JavaScript, , TypeScript,

FRAMEWORKS

React, Next.js

ARCHITECTURE

REST APIs, OpenAPI,

CLOUD

AWS, CDN, Terraform

ENGINEERING TOOLCHAIN

GitHub / Gitlab, CI/CD orchestrator (Harness, Gitlab CI, ..),, Nexus, Docker

OBSERVABILITY

Splunk, Grafana, AppDynamics, CloudWatch

What you bring

• At least 8 years of software engineering experience.
• At least 3 years in a technical lead, lead developer, or comparable senior engineering role.
• Experience delivering enterprise-scale applications and integrations.
• Strong knowledge of software architecture, design patterns, cloud-native development, and API design.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical decisions.
• Experience with production operations, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
• Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working with distributed or international delivery teams.
• Fluent English; working French proficiency is strongly valued.

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