Lead Software Engineer - Back End/Java

The Walt Disney Company•Santa Monica, CA

59d•$155,700 - $228,600

About The Position

As a Tech Lead Software Engineer, you will collaborate closely with engineers, project managers, and product managers to find the best solution for our viewers. You will drive projects end-to-end: designing the initial solution; finding alignment with partner teams; execution of the necessary code; and overseeing the deployment of code to production. Members of the team look to your code and documentation as examples of excellence. You value good-faith collaboration, driving best practices, and promoting excellence on your team. If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you!

Requirements

Bachelor ’ s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
7+ years of related experience crafting and operating large-scale, high-availability backend services.
Experience crafting and operating JVM services ( such as Java, Scala, Kotlin ).
Proven track record of designing and driving consensus on backend architectures.
Deep understanding of and experience using caching technologies ( such as Redis, Memcached, EHcache ).
Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, databases, etc).
Strong understanding of design patterns and principles.
Experience with asynchronous programming.
Experience with object-oriented programming patterns.
Experience with functional programming patterns.
Experience using source control systems and CI/CD pipelines ( such as git, Github, Jenkins ).
Experience with AGILE/Scrum practices.
Skilled at work breakdown and task estimation.
1+ years practicing operational best practices for service maintenance.
Experience deploying and scaling within a cloud infrastructure.
Experience with observability tools for metrics, logging, and monitoring (such as Datadog, Grafana).
Strong communication skills and a desire to share your knowledge with team members and others across Disney Streaming

Responsibilities

Actively participate in daily stand-ups and other scrum ceremonies.
Design new solutions and drive alignment across engineering and product teams.
Expertly break down work at the epic level, setting project milestones with reasonable deadlines.
Prioritize work within a project to deliver on the most necessary or urgent requirements.
Anticipate and mitigate risk on projects.
Effectively communicate with stakeholders on project progress.
Write code to implement new features or optimize existing services.
Determine the most efficient means to sufficiently test new code: unit tests, integration tests, performance tests, etc.
Set best practices for the team for on-call responsibilities such as deployments, monitoring, and investigating incidents
Use logs, monitoring tools, and work with developers to determine root causes across distributed components.
Perform code reviews for members of the team, bearing a sense of responsibility for approved code.
Coach and mentor teammates in an open, respectful, flexible, empathetic manner.
Help onboard new team members.