Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney's media business globally, specifically focusing on developing high-performance platforms for user foundations that are shared across streaming services like Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Understanding of message based distributed, scalable, and resilient systems
- Problem-solving skills to identify the root cause and implement the fix.
- Fluent in Java
- Experience transforming requirements into software design, documentation and software.
- Fluent in multiple programming languages and an expert in at least one of: JavaScript, Python, Java
- Expert with at least one of: AWS, Azure, GCP
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of stateful microservices and lambdas in a multi-region cloud environment.
- Promote and support Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, and Scrumban by actively participating in regular ceremonies such as stand-up, retrospectives and sprint planning.
- Mentor engineers within your squad (and beyond!) to help them improve their technical ability and build their profile within and outside of the organization.
- Collaborate with your squad, Product Managers, Designers, QA, Operations, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and articulate technical decisions and outcomes.
- Apply your knowledge and skills to help us deliver scalable, performant, maintainable, and testable software.
- Implement reliable, high-throughput services and pipelines for gathering information about our users, and delivering personalized experiences.
- Define technical and operational metrics to measure system health and to manage risk.
Other
- A willingness and desire to effectively communicate and collaborate across teams and systems.
- A sense of ownership of the projects delivered by your team and department
- A passion for mentoring, learning, and adapting to a very dynamic and fast paced environment
- Kindness and pragmatic optimism.
- Your unique view and experience
