Sr Software Engineer

Job Description

The Experience Management team at Disney Streaming is hiring Senior Software Engineers to help build and support the metadata and artwork platform for Disney+, ESPN+, and other streaming services. Our systems are collectively responsible for integrating with the studios to bring all the metadata and artwork for Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, Nat Geo, and Fox content onto the Disney Streaming platform for inclusion in Disney+. This includes distributed systems that handle metadata and artwork ingest, management, curation, personalization, localization, and syndication. Our metadata drives nearly every aspect of the user experience in Disney Streaming products.

We have an engineer-driven culture where teams are able to make their own technology choices based on the task at hand, and team members are encouraged to spend some time on professional development taking online courses, learning new technologies, working on open source or side projects, or writing blog posts. Some of the technologies currently used within Experience Management include Java, NodeJS, Scala, Kotlin, Python, Javascript, Typescript, Angular, SQL, Spring Boot, ElasticSearch, Docker, and a wide array of AWS services (Lambda, ECS, S3, SQS, Kinesis, Postgres, DynamoDB, etc.).

Whether you're in New York, California, Seattle, or remote, we provide opportunities to elevate your career and to transform an industry.

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 on-call rotation, supporting systems and services during production incidents
• Provide mentoring and advice for other engineers

Basic Qualifications:
• Fluent in Java programming language and proficient in at least one more
• Deep understanding of object-oriented programming
• Experience delivering full-stack applications in production environments
• Experience building RESTful services
• Understanding of async programming models (events, callbacks, promises, async/await)
• Understanding of source control concepts and exposure to Git
• Exposure to build and deployment technologies such as Jenkins and Docker
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Self-learner, independent, excellent problem-solving skills
• BA/BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical experience

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g3xkxx-3-17-6-75-42 in your application.