Software Engineer - Data Experience

Job ID 10100937 Location Seattle, Washington, United States / Santa Monica, California, United States / San Francisco, California, United States / New York, New York, United States Business Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology Date posted Nov. 19, 2024

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Job Summary:

On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also transforming Disney’s media business for the future. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to maximize flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

A few reasons why we think you’d love working for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology

Building the future of Disney’s media business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney’s media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day – from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.
Innovation: We develop and execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.

About The Team

Data Experience is a tightly-knit team working within the Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology’s (DE&E Tech) Data department. We focus on building cutting-edge applications, reducing redundancy, and providing end-to-end solutions that optimize our business processes. While focused on full-stack application development, we often foray into platform connectivity, BI tools, and big-data visualizations.

As the business place moves toward more data-driven decision making, the ability to access data easily becomes very important. In turn, we work closely with Data Science, Marketing, and Personalization teams to create one-of-a-kind applications that enable the Disney Company to reach new heights of customer outreach and conversion. While we use known technologies to speed our development process, we also contribute to and push enterprise design and productivity through our innovative partnerships.

Using your skills and experience in full-stack development, you will join a fun team of technically capable individuals that pride themselves on delivering the highest quality product. Most of our applications are written in a NodeJS/Typescript/React stack, but we can cover many languages and frameworks with our breadth of experience. In this role, you will focus on our overall platform with a focus on the pieces that are Hulu-supporting: Near Real Time visualization system, event glossary and mechanisms, and reporting metadata repository/front-end. The work is fun and challenging, and we are often asked to break new ground in terms of user experience and application functionality.

Join our small-but-mighty team in DE&E Tech and be a part of the magic!

Responsibilities

Develop full-stack applications as part of a unified platform and user experience
Write code that is concise, optimized, and well-tested
Contribute to team discussions and planning sessions
Support a broad platform of associated tooling through on-call rotation
Deliver functional and supportable product as part of an agile development team
Work with design and test teammates to deliver high-quality and testable features
Write documentation for platform, functionality, or processes to augment knowledge transfer
Review teammate’s code and pull requests for overall quality, standards alignment, and test coverage

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or the foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering or comparable field of study, with 3+ years of progressive experience in a software development (SDE) occupation, including automated testing of front end and backend services
Proficient in application development including NodeJS and React in JavaScript / Typescript
3+ years of experience with full-stack application development
3+ years of experience with high-test coverage delivery using unit- and front-end-test frameworks
1+ years of experience implementing visualization libraries (D3, for example)
Experience with application builds in an infrastructure-as-code system (Terraform, Kubernetes, Cloud Formation, etc.)
Experience with development in a CI/CD/CT environment
Experience with performance tuning for large-data-set front-end / visualizations
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
Organized, detail-oriented and able to deliver project tasks on time
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Being a highly motivated, self-starting individual

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with large-scale data libraries such as Druid
Experience collaborating with shared React component library
Experience with documentation creation / maintenance
Experience with developing applications in cloud platforms (e.g. AWS)
Experience working with Agile methodologies
Working knowledge of web accessibility fundamentals
Experience with Kafka, Amazon SQS, or Kinesis
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Spinnaker, and continuous integration/delivery systems
Experience developing mocking mechanisms for tests

Additional Information

#DISNEYTECH

The hiring range for this position in Seattle, WA or New York, NY is between $120,300 – $161,300, Los Angeles, CA is between $114,900 – $154,100year, in San Francisco is between $125,800 – $168,700. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

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About Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Technology (DE&E Technology) provides the technological backbone and product development for Disney’s two media business units, while helping to keep the company at the vanguard of innovation – enabling the Company to continuously leverage technology to enhance storytelling and creativity, while delivering scalability, flexibility, and efficiency for its businesses.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

This position is with Hulu, LLC, which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology.

Hulu, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.

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