Lead Product Software Engineer
About The Position
Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization focused on building and advancing the technological backbone for Disney’s media business. The team combines technology with creativity to develop world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive innovation and scalability. Content Platforms & Operations is specifically responsible for the development and advancement of technical and operational functions that drive the worldwide distribution and monetization of Disney’s linear networks and theatrical content. This includes managing Disney’s media supply chain, storage, network and theatrical distribution operations, media localization, and network transmission and origination. The team also serves as a key collaboration point between Product & Technology and Disney’s regional business teams in EMEA, APAC, and LATAM. This role is crucial for creating a more unified and scalable content acquisition and distribution pipeline across Media Services, Ordering & Fulfillment, and direct-to-consumer platforms. As Content Platforms streamlines workflows, this position will act as a technical leader, working across team boundaries to design integrations and deliver new product capabilities. These capabilities will support modern media workflows and growth in both direct-to-consumer (DTC) and transactional business lines. The ideal candidate is a strong individual contributor with deep technical expertise, capable of independently driving solutions from concept to delivery. This role involves ownership of release management practices to ensure reliable and efficient service delivery, and leveraging AI to accelerate innovation in production systems and enhance developer productivity.
Requirements
- Proven expertise with architecture and delivery of high volume, cached, fault tolerant, multi-threaded scalable systems.
- Deep understanding of async programming models (events, callbacks, etc).
- Expertise designing APIs and building RESTful services.
- Mastery in Java and experience with multiple open-source technologies like; Spring, Tomcat, Nginx, Elastic Search, MongoDB, GraphQL, etc.
- Highly knowledgeable in cloud-based technologies such as AWS EC2, SQS, S3, Lambdas, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Cloudformation/Terraform, etc.
- Expertise with full lifecycle of application development, including best practices of unit testing, code reviews, documentation, etc.
- Experience with build and deployment technologies such as Jenkins and Docker.
- Motivated self-starter with the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies.
- Can effectively articulate complex ideas and influence others through well-reasoned explanations.
- Enjoy working on a team setting with engineers of varying experience.
- Strong communication skills and attention to detail.
- 7+ years relevant industry experience.
- BS Computer Science or related technical discipline or its equivalent.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical guidance and evangelize best practices.
- Maintain a deep understanding of our core media systems and how they interact with upstream and downstream dependencies.
- Contribute and review code, set standards, and work with engineers to ensure product and design specifications are met.
- Responsible for fundamental platform performance, scalability, and resiliency.
- Partner with stakeholders to refine requirements, and propose solutions to problems that span multiple teams.
- Influence and contribute to department technical strategy and planning.
- Provide mentoring to engineers on advanced technical issues.
- Research, learn, and evangelize widespread adoption of new technologies and architecture patterns.
- Lead cross-functional troubleshooting of complex issues as needed.
- Strategic planning and vision focused on experimenting with and deploying new technologies.
- Any other duties needed to help achieve Business Objectives.
Benefits
- 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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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
