Lead Software Engineer

Job ID 10106840 Location Santa Monica, California, United States / San Francisco, California, United States / Seattle, Washington, United States Business Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology Date posted Dec. 11, 2024

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Job Summary:

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

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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.

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About Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Technology (DE&E Technology) provides the technological backbone and product development for Disney’s two media business units, while helping to keep the company at the vanguard of innovation – enabling the Company to continuously leverage technology to enhance storytelling and creativity, while delivering scalability, flexibility, and efficiency for its businesses.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

This position is with Disney Streaming Technology LLC, which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology.

Disney Streaming Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.

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