Senior Software Engineer

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 here:

• Building the future of Disney’s Streaming, Sports, and Entertainment business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the backend systems, API’s and mobile applications that will power Disney’s media, advertising, and distribution businesses.
• Reach and 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 Organization

Engineering Services designs, builds, and sustains technology that powers DE&E Technology’s worldwide content production and distribution platforms. We contribute to a series of cross-functional services and technologies, including Quality Engineering, Observability, Developer Platforms, Broadcast Infrastructure and Software, and Networking. The Quality Platform Engineering team builds frameworks and infrastructure that allows QA automation teams to write and test at scale and with speed.  We see ourselves as system engineers, learning entire cross-functional feature flows and building tools and libraries that integrate across the entire Disney Streaming tech stack.

We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. The Walt Disney Company is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Job Summary:

As a member of our team, you will strive to accomplish the following goals:

• Own the development and maintenance of two or more functional areas of core frameworks, execution environments, build systems and tooling used across multiple products, using a structured programming language like Java, Python, or JavaScript.
• Contribute to the design & implementation of services and frameworks with input from other senior and lead engineers by checking-in valuable, clean code daily that adds new features and capabilities
• Become a member of the Quality Platform Engineering team, driving increasing quality through innovation, curiosity and thoughtful debate.
• Contribute to the successful implementation of solutions for complex technical problems with DE&ET engineering teams and driving the deployment of Disney backend and guest-facing products at Disney Quality.
• Providing strategic input on future initiatives with stakeholders and other engineers
• Contributing to and collecting data to inform Key Performance Indicators used for defining project statuses and effectiveness 

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Independently break large stories until into smaller tasks based on stakeholder requirements
• Developing and supporting test automation frameworks, execution environments, build systems, and reporting tools
• Designs solutions to and develop architecture for a new project feature, with occasional guidance from more senior engineers
• Maintaining documentation meant for end user consumption as well as project contributor documentation
• Support and mentor developers and automation engineers through code reviews, knowledge-sharing, and technical leadership
• Investigating and resolving any framework, tool or execution of environmental issues affecting our services
• Contribute to and maintain Java 11 libraries and services that are used by client, backend, and automation testing teams
• Contribute to and maintain core services running Java 11 in an AWS EKS environment

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

• Bachelor’s degree or the foreign equivalent in Computer Science or a closely related field
• 5+ years of progressive experience in a software development (SDE) occupation, including automated testing of front end or backend services using a structured programming language.
• 3+ years of experience
• Proficient in object-oriented design and expertise with one of the following programming languages: Node/JavaScript, Java, Python
• Experience with test automation and unit testing frameworks
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Excellent collaboration skills and ability to use standard software development lifecycle (SDLC) tools such as Jira and Confluence, and version control systems.
• Experience leading one to two teams in technical solutioning
• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Highly motivated, self-starting individual

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Java and Springboot based applications development
• Experience in mobile and/or web application development and testing
• Experience with developing applications in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS)
• Understanding of async programming models (events, callbacks, promises, async/await) and threading/concurrency
• Experience working with Agile methodologies
• Working knowledge of web accessibility fundamentals
• Experience with Kafka, Amazon SQS, and Kinesis
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Spinnaker, and continuous integration/delivery systems
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-code languages (such as Terraform)
• Experience developing advanced mocking mechanisms (e.g., rule-based proxies and dummy-services)

The hiring range for this position in New York, NY is $145,400 to $195,000 per year. 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.