Senior Software Engineer

Overview:

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.

The Product & Data Engineering team is responsible for end-to-end development for Disney’s world-class consumer-facing products, including streaming platforms Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+, and digital products & experiences across ESPN, Marvel, Disney Studios, NatGeo, and ABC News. The team drives innovation at scale for millions of consumers around the world across Apple, Android, Smart TVs, game consoles, and the web, with our platforms powering core experiences like personalization, search, messaging and data.

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.

Job Summary:

The Sports Interactive team builds systems that power content across a multitude of ESPN products and scales to millions of individual users. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be part of a diverse and talented organization focused on building and maintaining complex web applications for ESPN.  You will be a member of a team creating the world’s #1 sports products working with modern server-side and web technologies such as JavaScript, Node and React to deliver scalable and elegant solutions for new product features and core site architecture.

We’re looking for a passionate, impactful, technical leader who wants to come here to do their very best work and make their mark, add their chapter to the long and storied history of The Walt Disney Company. Someone who holds themselves and their teammates accountable in a professional, collaborative manner. A collaborative technologist who seeks to bring the best out in themselves and those around them. Someone who can provide a fresh perspective and innovative insight to our initiatives.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Build components and modules that are used by millions of fans around the world

• Bring our UI to life by connecting components to live APIs

• Partner with other engineering teams to solve complex problems while considering performance, scalability, caching, resiliency, and flexibility for expanding product requirements

• Test code through various means: unit tests, integration tests, performance tests etc

• Maintain a deep understanding of our core systems and how they interact with upstream and downstream dependencies.

• Responsible for fundamental platform performance, scalability, and resiliency

• Partner with stakeholders to refine requirements, and propose solutions to problems that span multiple teams

• Contribute to cross-functional troubleshooting of complex issues as needed

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of 5+ years of related work experience

• Extensive experience with JavaScript and JS Frameworks, such as React and NodeJS.

• Experience with full stack programming, including JavaScript/TypeScript/NodeJS, shell scripting and other similar technologies.

• Expertise with full lifecycle of application development, including best practices of unit testing, code reviews, documentation, etc.

• Motivated self-starter with the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies. Can effectively articulate complex ideas and influence others through well-reasoned explanations

• Enjoy working within a team setting of engineers of varying experience

• Excellent written and verbal communication skill with both technical and non-technical audiences

Education

• BS Computer Science or related technical discipline or its equivalent

Additional Desired Qualifications

• Previous work experience in media & entertainment distribution

• Experience working with vendor teams to deliver high quality results

• Experience leveraging cloud platform services, preferably within AWS

• Experience with build and deployment tools

• Experience instrumenting and monitoring applications via metrics, logs, and dashboards

• Strong curiosity about how Disney delivers the Magic and a desire to be a part of it