Sr Software Engineer - 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 hundreds of millions of people around the world. 

A few reasons why we think you’d love working here:

• 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. 

The Commerce, Growth & Identity (CGI) team is dedicated to three business-critical areas at Disney that will help transform its media business. They create seamless user experiences for consumers who can choose from a wide range of subscription plans, enabling more choice and flexibility. The CGI team is also focused on building innovative and cutting-edge capabilities that will drive subscriptions, engagement, and monetization across Disney’s streaming and digital products.  

As a Sr Software Engineer, you will join Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology's Growth & Commerce Platform Growth Life Orchestration Team. Disney has been investing tremendously in modernizing its platform by developing a platform layer that exposes the commerce system’s capabilities to our front-end device clients (Web, mobile, living room devices) and our service partners like the customer service platform.  

The team's primary objective is to abstract away the core commerce domains from client teams and centralize all of the Growth & Commerce Platform capabilities into one shared layer. Another objective of the team is to decouple these core commerce systems to allow for faster feature delivery. 
 

Responsibilities 

• Work alongside the Product and Business teams to understand the business implications and user flows for sign-up and user account management. 

• Contribute to designs and develop a future proof API layer that exposes the commerce lifecycle platform capabilities to various clients. 

• Review and develop robust API contracts and scalable microservices for internal clients. 

• Assist in creating technical proposals to illustrate the high-level design and system flow between clients and backend systems. 

• Understand key dependencies such as the core subscription, billing, and payment systems and how they will affect clients. 

• Contribute to the end-to-end software development lifecycle for our systems: conceptualize, design, build, code review, test, load test, launch, and measure performance. 

• Collaborate with the Product team to translate requirements into well-defined technical implementation. 

Basic Qualifications 

• Minimum of 5 years of related work experience  

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience 

• Strong code design and architectural skills 

• API design experience (authoring and providing feedback) with stakeholders 

• Strong programming experience in Java server side development 

• Experience working at scale and high RPS throughput 

• Familiarity with SQL 

• Outstanding communication, collaboration skills, and a strong ethic of teamwork 

• Quality-first demeanor with a focus on test automation and CI/CD 

• Strong analytical skills 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience with Spinnaker and Kubernetes 

• Experience with Spring WebFlux or Reactive programming in Java 

• Experience with GraphQL (implementation and integration) 

• Experience or familiarity with gRPC 

• Experience with AWS, Terraform

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