The Ad Platform Engineering organization within Disney Entertainment and ESPN organization is fully responsible for building, enhancing and maintaining the high-performance, distributed, microservice-based Digital Advertising Platform. The platform is charged with the qualification, delivery, and tracking of Digital Advertising campaigns (Video on Demand, Live TV, and innovative interactive ads) across all of Disney online properties, including Hulu, Disney+, and ESPN+. As part of Ad Platform Engineering, the Disney Campaign Manager team builds Disney’s self-service advertising portal. Empowering advertisers with seamless access to premium streaming inventory across Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+. It enables users to set up, launch, and optimize campaigns in real time through an intuitive dashboard that offers precise targeting, flexible budgeting, and performance analytics. As Manager of Software Engineering, you will apply your deep technical knowledge and skills to help us deliver scalable, performant, maintainable, loosely coupled, encapsulated, and testable software. On a daily basis you should bring: A willingness and desire to effectively communicate and collaborate across teams and systems on architecture, design, and implementation Demonstrated project ownership System and API design, and implementation best practices to guide and mentor, for example, micro-service encapsulation and loose coupling A passion for mentoring, learning, and adapting to a very challenging and complicated landscape A proven ability to work with product teams to translate requirements into well-defined technical implementations, as well as the ability to define technical and operational metrics to measure system health A keen eye for potential optimizations and enhancements Kindness and pragmatic optimism A deep understanding of Java and the SDLC Experience building internal and external performant web based UIs Detailed understanding of database design and usage, including ORM Your unique view and experience