Senior Product Software Engineer (Kotlin)

The Walt Disney Company • Glendale, NY

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Disney Media Player Engineering team is responsible for designing video streaming playback solutions in collaboration with encoding, packaging, and delivery teams to optimize the Disney streaming technology stack for the best streaming experience possible on all platforms. This role is for a Senior Product Software Engineer to create a feature-rich standard streaming media playback library on Android devices. The intention is to design and develop a layered architecture for media playback that can span all Disney direct-to-consumer brands like Disney+, ESPN, ABC News, and Hulu. The focus will be on collaborating with media playback teams on other platforms to ensure a consistent software architecture that delivers a best-in-class streaming experience for viewers while providing a foundation for media playback innovation at Disney. This is a hands-on engineering position for the Android Ecosystem using Kotlin and the Android SDK. Based on experience, the engineer will work with a cross-functional team of Product Managers, Designers, Engineers, Web Developers, and Content Creators to conceptualize and develop solutions shared across all Disney experiences. The ideal candidate enjoys working with other teams and technologies, understands their constraints, enjoys the challenges of difficult problems, and takes pride in finding solutions that balance design constraints, technical constraints, and the end user experience. They foster trust, approach problems with empathy and respect, and embrace creativity.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of industry experience using Kotlin and the Android SDK
• Proficiency with Reactive Programming and Dependency Injection
• Well-versed in different architectural patterns (MVI/MVVM or equivalent)
• Able to demonstrate experience in the full lifecycle of software development. Early stage, maintenance, and end of life.
• Knowledgeable in programming paradigms including Object Oriented and Reactive
• Write efficient, reliable, and maintainable code whether implementing improvements, user-facing features, or fixing defects – through collaboration with senior team members.
• Experience with unit test frameworks and continuous integration systems
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Motivated self-starter with the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies

Nice To Haves

• Comfortable using common Android libraries such as Dagger 2 / Hilt, RxJava2, Groupie
• A deep understanding of many aspects of the Android SDK such as Activity and Fragment lifecycles, thread management, custom views, and animations
• Experience using performance evaluation tools such as Android Profiler
• Knowledgeable about maintaining a large, modularized codebase
• Familiarity with Android TV / Amazon Fire TV development
• Experience with streaming video, codecs, and DRM
• Experience with Kotlin, Java, Android SDK, Dependency Injection, Gradle, Databases, Reactive paradigms, Coroutines, Jetpack Compose

Responsibilities

• Design and implement solutions in collaboration with team-members for new features which integrate with various Disney media services and back-ends
• Collaborative API design with peer teams on API Services as well as front-end teams which depend on our libraries
• Research and development for media playback experiences, integration, and testing
• Participate in project estimation and resource planning.
• Ability to collaborate in a small, productive development team as well as the larger engineering organization
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues, problems, and errors encountered across our various platforms
• Ability to collaborate in a small, productive development team as well as ability to work independently

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.

What This Job Offers

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