Technical Lead, Software Engineering - Multi Media

Job Description

The Technical Lead reports to the Director of Software Engineering and is responsible for providing technical leadership for an engineering team to ensure the successful delivery of software services and its engineering excellence. The role provides technical expertise in building software services to acquire, manage, process and distribute media.

Responsibilities:
• Lead a software engineering team to design, build, deliver and operate software services to acquire, manage, process and distribute Disney's media catalog
• Build collaboratively with the team you lead and neighboring engineering teams
• Contribute to the code base by writing and reviewing software
• Lead technical feasibility, implementation approach, deployment strategies, and QA efforts
• Establish engineering best practices and standards within the team to drive quality and excellence
• Contribute to a culture of quality, innovation and experimentation
• Mentor or coach team members on best practices, technical concepts and principles of software development
• Recruit and help hire talented software engineer

Basic Qualifications:
• Experience with Scala
• BA or BS or equivalent experience demonstrating an expert level understanding of software development and infrastructure
• Minimum 5 years' experience building complex distributed software services
• Highly skilled in the software development life cycle, software architecture and writing software
• Practical and personable, with a succinct communication style
• Experience building multiple concurrent projects of high technical complexity
• Ability to work in a dynamic, fast paced environment, and provide on-call support as needed

Required Education
• BA or BS or equivalent experience demonstrating an expert level understanding of software development and infrastructure

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rv40mw-3-144-93-73-42 in your application.