Software Engineer - Data Experience at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology

On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also transforming Disney’s media business for the future. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to maximize flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

A few reasons why we think you’d love working for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology

• Building the future of Disney’s media business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney’s media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.

• Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day – from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.

• Innovation: We develop and execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.

About The Team

Data Experience is a tightly-knit team working within the Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology’s (DE&E Tech) 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 DE&E Tech and be a part of the magic!

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

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or the foreign equivalent in  Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering or comparable field of study, 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Additional Information

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The hiring range for this position in Seattle, WA or New York, NY is between $118,000 – $158,200, Los Angeles, CA is between $112,600 – $151,000 year, in San Francisco is between $123,400 – $165,400. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. 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.