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

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

This role involves a range of responsibilities related to software development within the Content Metadata domain.

• Build and maintain scalable web applications and services across the full stack, from the database to the user interface.
• Launch features across the full stack including responsive and intuitive user interfaces, and APIs that are built in a complex microservice architecture.
• Use (or learn fast) technologies like React, Python, Java/SpringBoot, MySQL, Postgres, AWS native resources (Lambda, Kinesis, DynamoDB, S3, SNS, SQS, etc), Terraform, and GraphQL.
• Write clean, robust, maintainable, and well-documented code, following team's best practices in software development, including unit testing and continuous integration.
• Collaborate proactively with team's members to solve problems by performing on-call duties to root cause, fix, and resolve issues on time.
• Dive deep in the details to monitor application performance and implement continuous improvements to ensure high availability, scalability, and low latency.
• Work closely with designers, product managers, and other engineers to gather requirements, design solutions, and deliver features that meet business needs.
• Take ambiguous or conflicting requirements and bring clarity by proposing different solutions and communicating concrete and concise trade-offs.
• Engage actively in team meetings, discussions, and decision-making processes, contributing your insights and experience to drive project success.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a closely related field.
• 3+ years of software development experience.
• Proficiency in: 
  • Python & Java
  • React, Javascript, HTML, CSS
  • Relational databases (MySQL, Postgres), and NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, DocumentDB, etc.)
  • Event or pub/sub driven architecture (Kafka, Kinesis)
• Experience with AWS (Lambda, Kinesis, SQS/SNS, etc.).
• Deep understanding of core CS fundamentals, including OOP, data structures, and algorithms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Terraform
• GraphQL
• Graph Databases (Neo4j)

The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, CA is $114,900.00 to $154,100.00 per year, in San Francisco, CA is $125,800.00 to $168,700.00 per year, and in New York, NY and Seattle, WA is $120,300.00 to $161,300.00 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.