Lead Product Software Engineer

The Walt Disney Company • Seattle, WA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology is reimagining how to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also transforming Disney’s media business for the future. This involves evolving streaming and digital products, powering worldwide advertising and distribution, and delivering unmatched entertainment and sports content. The Product & Data Engineering team is responsible for end-to-end development for Disney’s world-class consumer-facing products, including streaming platforms Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+, and digital products & experiences across ESPN, Marvel, Disney Studios, NatGeo, and ABC News. The team drives innovation at scale for millions of consumers around the world across Apple, Android, Smart TVs, game consoles, and the web, with our platforms powering core experiences like personalization, search, messaging and data. The Android Browse team specifically builds the experiences that guide users to their favorite content on Hulu and Disney+. This highly collaborative team includes members from quality assurance, program management, product management, UX, and engineering, and is responsible for apps used by millions of subscribers daily. They strive to build and maintain the best Live and Video on Demand (VOD) applications on a broad set of Android devices, from Android 7 to the latest developer preview. The team continuously analyzes data to improve their apps, processes, and collaboration.

Requirements

• Minimum of 7+ years of experience with Kotlin and Android development
• A deep understanding of the Android SDK, Activity and Fragment lifecycles, thread management, custom views, compose and animations
• Deep knowledge of Android app architecture patterns (MVVM, MVI, etc.) and design principles.
• Experience integrating with backend systems, web services, and third-party software
• Proven understanding and experience using reactive frameworks such as RxJava or Flow
• Be an excellent communicator who collaborates well across teams.
• Successfully lead a project from start to finish
• You build high-quality code by always writing tests and using performance evaluation tools like Android Profiler
• Experience with test automation, dependency injection frameworks, and continuous integration
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot), to improve software design, engineering productivity and system capabilities.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.

Nice To Haves

• Familiar with Scrum and Agile methodologies
• Experience building UI with Compose
• A growth mindset towards learning, experience mentoring others, and a desire to give and receive feedback.
• Familiarity with Android TV / Amazon Fire TV development
• Experience with streaming video (DASH or HLS protocol), codecs, and DRM

Responsibilities

• Work closely with UX designers, product managers, and engineering leadership to craft best-of-class, delightful TV-watching experiences
• Work closely with other client and backend engineers, to architect and implement solutions that are built to last.
• Demonstrate engineering excellence by developing test infrastructures, writing documentation, and following an agile development methodology.
• Assist with critical components including our release process and remote configuration management.
• Manage production issues and solve novel problems.
• Mentor associate and mid-level team members and support peers through code review and pair programming.
• Identify areas for growth within the team processes and develop new systems for collaboration.

Benefits

• A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
• the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level