Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is looking to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability. The User Foundations team specifically needs to build critical User Capabilities shared across streaming services, implementing reliable, high-throughput services and pipelines for gathering user information and delivering personalized experiences.
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.
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
- An understanding of how to define technical and operational metrics to measure system health and to manage risk.
- Kindness and pragmatic optimism.
