Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is looking to hire a Lead Software Engineer to design, build, and advance the technological backbone for Disney's media business globally, focusing on user foundations for streaming services like Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+.
Requirements
- 7+ years of related experience crafting and operating large-scale, high-availability backend services.
- Experience crafting and operating JVM services (such as Java, Scala, Kotlin).
- Proven track record of designing and driving consensus on backend architectures.
- Deep understanding of and experience using caching technologies (such as Redis, Memcached, EHcache).
- Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, databases, etc).
- Strong understanding of design patterns and principles.
- Experience with asynchronous programming.
Responsibilities
- Design new solutions and drive alignment across engineering and product teams.
- Write code to implement new features or optimize existing services.
- Determine the most efficient means to sufficiently test new code: unit tests, integration tests, performance tests, etc.
- Set best practices for the team for on-call responsibilities such as deployments, monitoring, and investigating incidents
- Use logs, monitoring tools, and work with developers to determine root causes across distributed components.
- Perform code reviews for members of the team, bearing a sense of responsibility for approved code.
- Coach and mentor teammates in an open, respectful, flexible, empathetic manner.
Other
- Actively participate in daily stand-ups and other scrum ceremonies.
- Expertly break down work at the epic level, setting project milestones with reasonable deadlines.
- Prioritize work within a project to deliver on the most necessary or urgent requirements.
- Anticipate and mitigate risk on projects.
- Effectively communicate with stakeholders on project progress.
