Software Engineer II - Ad Platform, Integrating Engineering
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 create world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive innovation and scalability. Ad Platforms specifically is responsible for Disney’s industry-leading ad technology and products, focusing on advertising performance, innovation, and value across Disney’s sports, news, and entertainment content on all media platforms. This role is for a Software Engineer who will contribute to the Ad Platforms team, utilizing Java, scripting, DevOps, and data persistence skills to develop new features. The position emphasizes collaboration, application architecture, code quality, and agile methodology, guided by lean principles. The ideal candidate is a passionate and impactful engineer who wants to make a significant contribution to The Walt Disney Company.
Requirements
- Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, or another technical field.
- 3+ years of experience in Integration tools and technologies and software using Java, Spring, Kafka, workflow orchestration, decision rules, API gateway, service mesh, event driven & API based microservices.
- Strong interest in integration and open source technologies.
- Strong knowledge of integration architectures, best practices, tools, techniques and platforms.
- Some previous experience in leading teams across multiple locations and vendors.
- Deep Java, scripting, DevOps, and data persistence skills.
- Experience in designing and architecting highly scalable, secure, performant, and usable web applications using Java/Java EE.
- Deep skills in server side technology (Java, Spring, RESTful Web Services).
- Expertise with orchestration and containerization platforms (Docker and Kubernetes).
- Hands-on persistence and data streaming technology experience (MySQL, Oracle, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka).
- Comfort performing multiple roles.
- Commitment to agile methodology.
- Ability to hold oneself and teammates accountable in a professional, collaborative manner.
- Ability to provide a fresh perspective and innovative insight.
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related technical discipline is highly desirable.
- Experience in vibe coding and AI tools.
- Previous work experience in integration applications, products and platforms.
- Experience working with vendor teams to deliver high quality results.
- Knowledge of performance testing and application profiling (Gatling, JProfiler).
- Strong curiosity about how Disney delivers the Magic and a desire to be a part of it.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with leads and influence software architecture and design to ensure high-quality work aligned with engineering strategy.
- Collaborate on the design, development, maintenance, testing strategy, and operations of Integration API services written primarily in Java.
- Develop secure and highly performant integration services and APIs.
- Collaborate with and influence technical teams to deliver quality software and ensure maintainability and quality of code.
- Engage with product and technology leaders to understand and translate requirement needs into executable solutions.
- Check-in valuable, clean code daily that adds new features and capabilities.
- Create reference implementations for mentoring and leading junior staff when required.
- Help define engineering best practices.
- Investigate and resolve production issues from end-user to service layer and work to prevent them.
- Design and build multithreaded, distributed systems.
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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
