Software Engineer II - Ad Platform, Integrating Engineering

The Walt Disney Company • New York, NY

6d • $120,300 - $161,300 • Onsite

About The Position

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, and data scientists building and advancing the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally. The team combines technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. They work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.

Ad Platforms is responsible for Disney’s industry-leading ad technology and products – driving advertising performance, innovation, and value in Disney’s sports, news, and entertainment content, across all media platforms.

Requirements

• Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, or another technical field.
• Have 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.
• Have a strong interest in integration and open source technologies.
• Strong knowledge of integration architectures, best practices, tools, techniques and platforms.
• Have some previous experience in leading teams across multiple locations and vendors.

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 that you are delivering high quality work that aligns with Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology 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 the 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 on a daily basis that adds new features and capabilities.
• Create reference implementations for the purpose of mentoring and leading more junior staff (when required).
• Help define engineering best practices.
• Investigate and resolve any production issues from end user (UI) to service layer and work to prevent them.
• Strong experience in designing and building multithreaded, distributed systems.

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: Mid Level