Senior Software Engineer

About the Role & Team

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 redefining our for the future. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to increase 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 globally.

This is a hybrid role based in the Amsterdam office.

A few reasons why we think you’d love working for the team:

• Building the future of our 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.

What You Will Do

Disney's Android team is seeking an experienced Software Engineer who is excited to build apps enjoyed by millions around the world. You will be building scalable, sophisticated solutions for the Disney+ Android application across a wide array of devices including phones, tablets, and TVs. Our highly collaborative group works in tandem with many multi-functional teams. We value pristine communication skills, both written and verbal, as well as a bias for action. We are incredibly invested in maintaining high code quality standards with unit tests, automated tests, modern libraries, and a Kotlin codebase. We strive to build the best Live and video-on-demand (VOD) applications in the world, and we look forward to hearing more about your skills and how they can help us achieve this lofty goal.

As a Senior Android Engineer at Disney, you are confident in your knowledge of the Android ecosystem. You are a passionate team member who is well-versed in many core technologies such as Kotlin, RxJava2, Coroutines, Dagger2, Gradle, Fragments, and the Android Lifecycle. You demonstrate engineering excellence by developing performant solutions accompanied by quality documentation and tests. You contribute to architectural decisions that do not just fulfill the requirements but also provide scalability and flexibility. You have phenomenal communication skills, enabling you to collaborate with other engineers and teams expertly and efficiently. You have a desire to support and mentor other team members to enable them to become more knowledgeable and achieve their career goals.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• 5+ years of production experience with Kotlin and the Android SDK

• Proficiency with Reactive Programming and Dependency Injection

• Well-versed in different architectural patterns (MVI/MVVM or equivalent)

• You write high-quality code, tests, and documentation

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related technical field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Comfortable using common Android libraries such as Dagger 2 / Hilt, RxJava2 or Groupie as well as common Android jetpack libraries.

• Advanced Gradle understanding (Custom build tasks, convention plugins).

• Comfortable reviewing and working on CI/CD (Jenkins and GitHub Actions).

• App performance tooling experience (Benchmarking, Tracing, Threading, Perfetto, Android Profiler)

• A deep understanding of many aspects of the Android SDK such as Activity and Fragment lifecycles, thread management, custom views, animations and architectural patterns (View Architecture, Modularization)

• Annotation processing (KAPT/KSP)

• Knowledgeable about maintaining a large modularized codebase

• Supporting multiple form factors (Mobile, Tablet, TV) and familiarity with Android TV / Amazon Fire TV development

• Experience with streaming video, codecs, and DRM

The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, and where all can thrive and belong. Disney is committed to forming a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.