Software Engineer II - Java Backend
Aplicar ahora Aplique más tarde Job ID 10133694 Ubicación Bristol, Connecticut, Estados Unidos Business Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Fecha de publicación 08/10/2025Detalles del empleo:
Disney Entertainment & 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.
Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity.
Job Summary:
As a Software Engineer II , you will work on services that sit at the heart of our fan engagement platform, ensuring low-latency, high-reliability data delivery at scale. These systems are used to drive highly personalized and rewarding user experiences across a broad spectrum of Disney products including ESPN, ESPN Direct to Consumer, ESPN Fantasy, Hulu, Disney+, Marvel, ABC News and National Geographic.
You will collaborate closely with product, infrastructure, and platform teams to enhance system performance, build resilient APIs, and enable a seamless fan experience across millions of users. This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about building systems that scale.
Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:
Collaborate with other teams to develop estimates, roadmaps, and workflow processes to achieve strategic company objectives
Execution, design, implementation, and maintenance of technical projects that anticipate the needs of the business for years to come
Solve unique and complex problems that have a broad impact on the business
Write efficient, reliable, and testable code
Review, analyze, and optimize code for readability, reliability, and performance
Design and implement automated code and system tests
Instrument, monitor, and support live operations of systems your team owns
Troubleshoot and resolve issues, problems, and errors encountered across company platforms
Manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment
Work autonomously with minimal technical supervision
Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:
Basic Qualifications
3 years of relevant professional experience
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Motivated self-starter with the desire to learn and adapt to new technologies
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences
Expert understanding of Java programming language, Spring framework, and Maven dependency management
Expert understanding of API design and distributed web service architecture
Experience designing and implementing SQL and NoSQL databases
Experience designing and implementing event streaming services
Preferred Qualifications
Master’s Degree in Computer Science
Experience designing and implementing custom application metrics and monitoring dashboards
Experience with containerized cloud hosting
Experience leveraging cloud platform services
Experience with many of the following:
Amazon Web Services ecosystem
Optimized Cassandra database implementations
Optimized Kafka implementations
Unit, integration, and load test frameworks
Analysis of application performance inside a JVM
Experience with React UI framework
Acerca de Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology:
En Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology, fusionamos imaginación e innovación para reinventar las formas en las que las personas disfrutan e interactúan con los cuentos y los productos más queridos del mundo. Nuestro trabajo tiene un gran alcance y es sumamente sofisticado. Brindamos experiencias increíbles, transformamos el futuro de los medios de comunicación y creamos productos y plataformas que permiten la conexión entre las personas de cualquier lugar del mundo y los cuentos y los deportes que más les gustan.
Disney tiene la capacidad de combinar tecnología de primer nivel con una creatividad inigualable, y eso nos hace únicos. Es la esencia de nuestro pasado, presente y futuro. Somos narradores e innovadores. Creadores y constructores. Artistas e ingenieros.
Acerca de The Walt Disney Company:
The Walt Disney Company, junto con sus subsidiarias y afiliadas, es una empresa internacional diversificada líder en entretenimiento familiar y medios de comunicación que incluye tres segmentos comerciales principales: Disney Entertainment, ESPN y Disney Experiences. Desde sus humildes comienzos como estudio de dibujos animados en la década de 1920 hasta su reconocido nombre en la industria del entretenimiento en la actualidad, Disney continúa con orgullo su legado de crear historias y experiencias de clase mundial para toda la familia. Las historias, los personajes y las experiencias de Disney llegan a consumidores e invitados de todos los rincones del mundo. Con operaciones en más de 40 países, nuestros empleados y miembros del elenco trabajan juntos para crear experiencias de entretenimiento que sean apreciadas a nivel local y global.
Este puesto es en Disney Streaming Technology LLC , que forma parte de una empresa comercial que denominamos Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology.
Disney Streaming Technology LLC es un empleador que ofrece igualdad de oportunidades. Los solicitantes recibirán consideración para el empleo independientemente de su raza, religión, color, sexo, orientación sexual, género, identidad de género, expresión de género, nacionalidad, ascendencia, edad, estado civil, condición de militar o veterano, afección médica, información genética o discapacidad, o cualquier otro fundamento prohibido por la ley federal, estatal o local. Disney defiende un entorno empresarial donde las ideas y decisiones de todas las personas nos ayudan a crecer, innovar, crear las mejores historias y ser relevantes en un mundo en constante evolución.