Job Posting Title:

Lead Software Engineer

Req ID:

10106840

Job Description:

On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also transforming Disney’s media business for the future. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to maximize flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

A few reasons why we think you’d love working for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology

Building the future of Disney’s media business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney’s media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day – from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.
Innovation: We develop and execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.

The Product & Data Engineering team is responsible for end-to-end development for Disney’s world-class consumer-facing products, including streaming platforms Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+, and digital products & experiences across ESPN, Marvel, Disney Studios, NatGeo, and ABC News. The team drives innovation at scale for millions of consumers around the world across Apple, Android, Smart TVs, game consoles, and the web, with our platforms powering core experiences like personalization, search, messaging and data.

Lifecycle Messaging’s mission is to create and deliver scaled, customer centric multi-channel messaging experiences across the customer journey that drive impact in the form of engagement, revenue growth, customer delight & brand trust. Our platform, the Unified Messaging Platform helps us to inform, engage, and delight our guests.

Responsibilities

Lead the design & enhancement of the Unified Messaging Platform critical solutions and services, with an awareness of scalability, performance, and reliability benchmarks

Contribute to the source code implementation of new features in UMP critical services. Submit code change requests, unit tests, integration tests, and investigation results for review and deployment.

Build and maintain product-driven initiatives to improve and expand the messaging portal, Enhance/improve the underlying codebase to be extensible, reusable, and maintainable

Partake in collaboration and mentorship of more junior developers

Collaborate with your squad, Product Managers, Designers, QA, Operations, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and articulate technical decisions and outcomes.

Participate in on-call support, as needed

Basic Qualifications:

Minimum of 7 years of related work experience in the software engineering field, with a focus on building highly available architecture, shipping robust code and creating a positive team environment

Minimum of 1 year of experience crafting and operating large-scale, high-availability backend services

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.

Front-end web development experience working with Typescript, React, HTML5, CSS3, SASS/LESS, and vanilla JS

Experience working collaboratively across development, design, product, marketing, and more

Experience in Modern Java and/or an alternative JVM application development environment (e.g. Scala/Kotlin)

Experience with Relational and NoSQL Databases like Postgres, MySql, DynamoDB, Cassandra

Experience with asynchronous programming

Experience with object-oriented programming patterns

Experience using source control systems and CI/CD pipelines (such as git, Github, Jenkins)

Strong attention to detail, excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Experience working with localization and/or internationalization

Solid understanding of A/B experimentation

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience shipping entertainment/streaming media applications/platforms

Experience building messaging experiences, especially Email and Push

A history building internally scalable UI systems

Fluency or certification with AWS services, including S3, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, Lambda, CloudWatch

Familiarity with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tooling

Experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, high-uptime systems

Experience with performance tuning and building/maintaining software that is in critical path

Skilled at work breakdown and task estimation with creative and inventive problem solving

Strong understanding of design patterns and principles

#DISNEYTECH

The hiring range for this position in San Francisco is $166,800 to $223,600 per year, in Seattle or New York is $159,500 to $213,900 per year and in Santa Monica is $152,200 to $204,100 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. 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.

Job Posting Segment:

Product & Data Engineering

Job Posting Primary Business:

PDE - Engagement Experiences & Platforms

Primary Job Posting Category:

Software Engineer

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Santa Monica, CA, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

USA - CA - Market St, USA - WA - 925 4th Ave

Date Posted:

2024-12-11

Lead Software Engineer

The Walt Disney Company

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