Product Software Engineer II
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. Technologists in this area design and build products and platforms powering media, advertising, and distribution businesses. The Messaging Fleet specifically is responsible for the Unified Messaging Platform (UMP), a multi-channel marketing support system that provides tools for engagement, retention, and transactional messaging through segmentation, targeting, scheduling, and a decision engine for personalized messages.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
- 3+ years of experience building internet-scale web or services applications.
- Experience in Java, cloud services, and management tools (e.g. Git, SVN, Jira, Basecamp)
- Excellent understanding of software development fundamentals
- Experience with writing unit, integration and functional tests
- Experience with standard CI/CD procedures & tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Spinnaker.
- Proven ability to integrate with service APIs and/or SDKs.
- Experience working in a modern, agile software team with version control & project.
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge or certification with AWS services, including ECS (Docker), S3, EC2, Lambda, CloudWatch
- Experience with big data technologies & tools like Spark, Databricks, EMR
- Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure as code tooling
- Experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, high-uptime systems
- Creative and inventive problem solving
- Experience mentoring other developers
- Experience with UI frameworks (React/Typescript)
- Knowledge of JavaScript
Responsibilities
- Design core, backend software components for the Unified Messaging Platform and implement tier-1 microservices in Java.
- Implement asynchronous processes to run in the cloud for various data transformation operations.
- Lead the design & enhancement of critical services in UMP, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability.
- Research and integrate new technologies into the production environment to optimize core service offerings.
- Work on tech design for various initiatives and projects as per business needs.
- Provide technical guidance to junior team members, covering code quality, system design, and best practices in software development.
- Actively participate in code reviews, offering constructive feedback to improve code quality, system reliability, and performance.
- Collaborate with your squad, Product Managers, Designers, QA, Operations, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and articulate technical decisions and outcomes.
- Participate in Agile methodology and SCRUM processes such as Sprint Planning, Backlog grooming, Daily Standups, and Retrospectives with the team.
- Provide on-call support for critical services on a rotational basis.
- Own features/functionality and deliver projects end-to-end with high quality and robust architecture.
- Ramp up on new domains and technologies.
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
Mid Level
