Sr. Software Engineer

BUILD SOMETHING BIGGER THAN YOURSELF 

Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally. 

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.  

How you will contribute to our magical experience?: 

Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity. 

This team is responsible for building out the tools used by our operator teams to provide quality control (QC) to highly visible live and video-on-demand media workflows, implementing playback features, and ensuring seamless integration to operator tooling so that operators are able to ensure the highest quality experience possible for our customers. 

The Senior, Software Engineer will be responsible for: 

• Understand and implement the best engineering practices to write well constructed and easy to maintain code while collaborating with product managers to achieve business functionality. 

• Improve the content ingestion and management system APIs, publishing tools and workflows.  

• Design well architected solutions and build iteratively into systems while maintaining the best agile practices; and write defensive and robust tests.  

• Communicate status with peers and/or managers and present views and opinions patiently  

• On-board and mentor other developers on the team on standards and best practices.  

What we need from you to be part of this story:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Advanced level of English.
• 3+ years of software development experience and proficiency in Java.
• Knowledge of Python (is a plus).
• Expertise with core Computer Science fundamentals, including Object-Oriented programming, data structures and algorithms (hashing, trees, graphs, search etc.)  
• Fundamental understanding of relational, document and graph databases.  
• An enjoyment for going deep on performance tuning, and a love of owning a problem end-to-end.  
• Knowledge of technologies like SpringBoot, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, and native AWS resources such as DynamoDB, SQS, ElastiCache, Elasticsearch, etc.
• A desire to relentlessly pursue better ways on how to tackle problems and improve systems. 

Additional Information: 

At Disney, we believe it takes great people to create the memorable experiences, products and services our consumers know and love. We are a team of storytellers and hire under equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, disability and gender identity. We foster a corporate culture of belonging and inclusiveness, which empowers our staff and company to thrive. At Disney, everyone has the opportunity to speak up and participate, grow and share ideas.

“You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.” Walt Disney