Software Engineer II

The Walt Disney Company•Santa Monica, CA

About The Position

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally. The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We 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. Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here: Building the future of Disney’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come. Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally. Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems. Commerce, Data & Identity provides the core product management functions for areas crucial to Disney’s media businesses. These include initiatives and products that power digital commerce, identity, and growth, as well as those that reach uniquely across The Walt Disney Company enterprise, such as messaging and privacy, among others. Additionally, it is responsible for the data engineering, science, and products for Disney Entertainment & ESPN, along with their interconnection with other parts of The Walt Disney Company. Job Summary: Describe what the person will do in the role - how he/she will impact the organization. Data Experience is a tightly-knit team working within the Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology’s (DEEPT) Data department. We focus on building cutting-edge applications, reducing redundancy, and providing end-to-end solutions that optimize our business processes. While focused on full-stack application development, we often foray into platform connectivity, BI tools, and big-data visualizations. As the business place moves toward more data-driven decision making, the ability to access data easily becomes very important. In turn, we work closely with Data Science, Marketing, and Personalization teams to create one-of-a-kind applications that enable the Disney Company to reach new heights of customer outreach and conversion. While we use known technologies to speed our development process, we also contribute to and push enterprise design and productivity through our innovative partnerships. Using your skills and experience in full-stack development, you will join a fun team of technically capable individuals that pride themselves on delivering the highest quality product. Most of our applications are written in a NodeJS/Typescript/React stack, but we can cover many languages and frameworks with our breadth of experience. In this role, you will focus on our overall platform with a focus on the pieces that are Hulu-supporting: Near Real Time visualization system, event glossary and mechanisms, and reporting metadata repository/front-end. The work is fun and challenging, and we are often asked to break new ground in terms of user experience and application functionality. Join our small-but-mighty team in DEEPT and be a part of the magic!

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or the foreign equivalent in Computer Science or a closely related field with 3+ years of progressive experience in a software development (SDE) occupation, including automated testing of front end and backend services
Proficient in application development including NodeJS and React in JavaScript / Typescript
3+ years of experience with full-stack application development
3+ years of experience with high-test coverage delivery using unit- and front-end-test frameworks
1+ years of experience implementing visualization libraries (D3, for example)
Experience with application builds in an infrastructure-as-code system (Terraform, Kubernetes, Cloud Formation, etc.)
Experience with development in a CI/CD/CT environment
Experience with performance tuning for large-data-set front-end / visualizations
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
Organized, detail-oriented and able to deliver project tasks on time
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Being a highly motivated, self-starting individual

Nice To Haves

Experience with large-scale data libraries such as Druid
Experience collaborating with shared React component library
Experience with documentation creation / maintenance
Experience with developing applications in cloud platforms (e.g. AWS)
Experience working with Agile methodologies
Working knowledge of web accessibility fundamentals
Experience with Kafka, Amazon SQS, or Kinesis
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Spinnaker, and continuous integration/delivery systems
Experience developing mocking mechanisms for tests

Responsibilities

Develop full-stack applications as part of a unified platform and user experience
Write code that is concise, optimized, and well-tested
Contribute to team discussions and planning sessions
Support a broad platform of associated tooling through on-call rotation
Deliver functional and supportable product as part of an agile development team
Work with design and test teammates to deliver high-quality and testable features
Write documentation for platform, functionality, or processes to augment knowledge transfer
Review teammate’s code and pull requests for overall quality, standards alignment, and test coverage

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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