Software Engineer II

Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world. 

Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:

Building the future of Disney’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.

Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally. 

Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside Product and Business teams to understand the business implications and Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN commerce user flows, E.g, sign-up, switch, cancellation, and account management.

• Work closely with the Product team to transform requirements into clearly defined technical implementations.

• Develop a future-proof presentation API that powers the commerce experiences.

• Understand key dependencies between core commerce systems, such as payments, billing, and subscriptions, and how they will affect end users.

• Be responsible for the complete software development lifecycle for our systems, encompassing conceptualization, design, implementation, code review, unit test, QA validation, load test, launch, and measure performance.

• Define technical and operational critical metrics to measure system health

• Develop code that powers our APIs and services, written in TypeScript

• Ensure quality by writing and carrying out unit, integration, and load tests

• Actively participate in code and design reviews

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or a comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience

• 3+ years of related work experience

• Proficient in server-side development

• Strong programming skills (TypeScript or related programming languages)

• Strong understanding of Node.js echo system.

• Strong design patterns and architectural skills

• API design experience (authoring and providing feedback) with stakeholders.

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills

• Excellent debugging skills

• Experience with high-scale consumer-facing applications

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The hiring range for this position in Glendale, CA is $112,600 to $151,000 per year, and in Seattle, WA and New York, NY is $118,000 to $158,200 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.