Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is looking for a Technical Lead Software Engineer to join the Playback Services team within the Media Engineering organization. The Playback Services team’s mission is to build highly available, high throughput services that are essential to delivering high quality content to our subscribers. The team is responsible for the backend of media playback, facilitating media selection, device customization, and antipiracy technologies.
Requirements
- 7+ years related experience designing backend architectures and delivering backend applications in a production environment
- Experience building RESTful Services in Scala
- Understanding of async programming models (events, callbacks, async/await) and thread + concurrency
- Understanding of source control concepts and exposure to Git
- Experience with build and deployment technologies such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, and Docker
- Strong grasp of data structures, algorithms, and common design patterns.
- Demonstrated knowledge in building and operating large-scale high availability backend services
Responsibilities
- Work with a team of engineers building software in a collaborative development process
- Build high-performance, stable, scalable systems to be deployed in an enterprise setting
- Lead high-level architecture discussions and planning sessions
- Participate in the code review process by providing feedback on pull requests
- Participate in the on-call rotation, supporting systems and services during production incidents
- Author and provide feedback on technical proposals and root cause analyses
- Provide mentoring and advice for other engineers
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Self-learner, independent, excellent problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated ability to analyze complex technical challenges, propose well-reasoned solutions, and articulate design choices clearly.
- The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, CA is $152,200 to $204,100 per year, and in New York, NY is $159,500 to $213,900 per year.
