Sr Software Engineer

Walt Disney • Burbank, CA

186d • $138,900 - $203,900

About The Position

Disney Entertainment & ESPN 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. We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer who will be an outstanding addition to our Apple team. The right person for this role is highly motivated, collaborative, and technical, with the ability to coordinate across teams and empower both themselves and others in striving for and achieving excellence. Everything we do directly affects millions of global consumers, their experience with our service, and impacts our business.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in front-end application development with proficiency in writing optimized Swift/SwiftUI solutions with a low memory footprint.
• Leadership, the ability to identify problems and drive towards solutions, and an eagerness to learn and teach new technologies & solve novel problems.
• Experience building consumer-facing interactive experiences.
• A deep understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, etc.).
• Experience developing solutions using the Apple development ecosystem.
• Experience developing sophisticated user interfaces.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building consumer-facing interactive experiences, ideally in a video playback context.
• Experience tackling the challenges of developing renderer technologies.
• Experience with our common development tools such as: GitHub, Confluence, JIRA, MS Teams.
• Experience building applications backed by web-services is a plus.
• Launched or worked on an international product.
• Strong experience with Scrum methodology.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the specification and design of Disney Markup Language (DML) in collaboration with other engineers.
• Design, implement, and test features that expand the capabilities of the Renderer based on the DML specification.
• Support the integration of your platform's Renderer component with Client engineers across Disney's streaming brands.

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
• Industry: Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees