Jr. Software Engineer

BUILD SOMETHING BIGGER THAN YOURSELF 
 

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise with the following business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, Disney Parks, and Experiences and Products. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

How you will contribute to our magical experience?

As a Jr. Software Engineer, ou will play a key role in developing and maintaining high-impact systems and services. You’ll thrive in our lean, agile, and automation-driven culture, collaborating closely with frontend and product teams to champion code quality, and to build optimized experiences for our end-users.

This role sits within a shared services flex-engineering team, supporting other distribution platforms product and technology teams to launch high impact products. The scope of the team’s work spans a broad scope - from building backend APIs and workflows to prototyping and testing new AI/ML systems that analyze media assets, and everything in between.

The Jr. Software Engineer will be responsible for:

• Be supported by your team to learn and grow as a professional software engineer.
• Collaborate with local and remote technology teams across the globe.
• Build and support robust, secure, scalable, and efficient API-based services for media supply chain integration.
• Primarily focus on backend engineering systems.
• Work closely with US-based and UK-based engineering peers, as well as product and project managers, within agile workflows (sprint planning, sizing, and retrospectives)
• Rapidly gain expertise in new technologies and apply that knowledge effectively.
• Ensure that services are sustainable, well-documented, and adequately tested for operational readiness.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of development practices and processes.
• Analyze and resolve complex engineering challenges alongside your team.
• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of our core systems and their interactions with upstream and downstream dependencies.
• Write high quality, testable code in collaboration with your team to ensure product and design specifications are met in a timely fashion.
• Take ownership of the quality of your code, ensuring it is fit for purpose by following best practices.
• Actively participate in stakeholder discussions to refine requirements and work with the team to propose effective solutions.
• Contribute to cross-functional troubleshooting of complex issues as needed.
• Any other duties needed to help achieve business objectives.

What we need from you to be part of this story:

• Up to 1 year of experience in a similar role.
• Bachelor’s degree or currently pursuing in Computer Science or a related field.
• Basic knowledge of programming, preferably in a JVM-based language (Java or Kotlin) is required. 
• Advanced level of English (required)
• Willingness to learn other languages and frameworks (e.g., Python, Javascript).
• Motivated, self-starter with a passion for learning new technologies.
• Enjoys working in a collaborative team environment.
• Good understanding of software engineering fundamentals.
• Strong interest in AI and machine learning.

Additional Information:

At Disney, we believe it takes great people to create the memorable experiences, products and services our consumers know and love. We are a team of storytellers and hire under equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, disability and gender identity. We foster a corporate culture of belonging and inclusiveness, which empowers our staff and company to thrive. At Disney, everyone has the opportunity to speak up and participate, grow and share ideas.

“You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.” Walt Disney