Software Engineer II - Ad Platform, Integrating Engineering

The Walt Disney Company • New York, NY

2d • Onsite

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 part of a motivated team that values collaboration, code quality, and agile methodology, guided by lean principles to deliver high-quality work efficiently.

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).
• Comfortable performing multiple roles.
• Commitment to agile methodology and lean principles.
• Ability to hold self 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.
• 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.
• 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