Technical Lead Software Engineer
Aplicar ahora Aplique más tarde Job ID 10083256 Ubicación Gran Mánchester, Reino Unido Business Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology Fecha de publicación 02/04/2024Detalles del empleo:
At The Walt Disney Company we’re responsible for building what aims to be the largest media streaming platform in the world, serving not just Disney+, but ESPN+, Star+, and Hulu. We foster innovation, we challenge each other, and we put our users before all else: connecting them with the stories they love.
We’re looking for people who want to challenge themselves, to grow; people who understand scale and care deeply about reliability. You will be surrounded by colleagues eager to help you succeed and be part of an ambitious, high-performing, rewarding culture. If this sounds like something for you, read on!
Job Summary
Work within one of Disney’s service engineering teams, supporting a variety of backend API services that directly support the Disney+ platform as part of the Growth and Commerce organisation. Contribute to dynamic, autonomous and self-motivated software teams that own the full development, delivery and operational support responsibilities of critical global services.
Our engineering teams are advocates of functional programming, so you can expect to join a team that’s applying principles from FP to build these services: using Scala, Cats, ZIO, http4s, FS2, and Cats Effect.
The Opportunity & Responsibilities:
- Be part of an Agile team building the world's fastest growing media streaming platform
- Contribute to an inclusive culture that values learning & development, close collaboration between team members, and strives for excellence
- Leverage, learn and apply cutting edge technologies on challenging and varied business domains
- Develop your technical understanding to support and build your career
- Have the opportunity to contribute to our open source or blog communities
- Apply principled engineering practices including unit testing, integration testing, and continuous integration
- Lead a significant part of the implementation, design, testing, and deployment of services within your team
- Act as a mentor and an example to others in your team and across the organisation
The Experience We Require From You:
- 7+ years engineering experience
- Demonstrable understanding of high-quality coding, testing, and development practices
- Experience working in a “Devops” environment
- Experience or interest in functional programming and its real-world applications particularly Scala stacks such as Scalaz, Cats Effect and ZIO
- Experience of designing, building & operating distributed systems with multi-level failover & fallback strategies
- Experience with Cloud Infrastructure, preferably with AWS
- Experience building micro/web services - including REST and GraphQL
- Monitoring and optimising applications, especially those written for the JVM
- Relational and NoSQL databases, particularly PostgreSQL, Aurora, & DynamoDB with experience modelling & optimising query performance
- Kinesis or any other streaming data
- Excellent communication skills, specifically in understanding, framing and simplifying both technical & business requirements
- Comfort with ambiguity and leading conversations where discordant views are present
- Experience mentoring and coaching more junior engineers on both technical and soft skills
- Contributions to the technical community, either through blogs, internal workshops, meetups or conferences
The Perks:
25 days annual leave
Private medical insurance & dental care
Free Park Entry: You will have the opportunity to enter any of our parks with your family and friends for free
Disney Discounts: you are entitled to discounts on designated Disney products, resort F&B and ticketing
Disney+ Subscription
Excellent parental and guardian leave
Employee Resource Groups – WOMEN @ Disney, Disney DIVERSITY, Disney PRIDE, our new disability & neurodiversity focused group - ENABLED, and our Mental Health & Wellbeing Group, TRUST.
The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, and where all can thrive and belong. We are committed to building a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.
Acerca de Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology:
Disney Entertainment y ESPN Technology (DE&E Technology) proporcionan la columna vertebral tecnológica y el desarrollo de productos para las dos unidades de negocio de medios de Disney, a la vez que ayudan a mantener a la compañía a la vanguardia de la innovación, lo que le permite aprovechar continuamente la tecnología para mejorar la narrativa y la creatividad, a la vez que ofrece escalabilidad, flexibilidad y eficiencia para sus negocios.
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 The Walt Disney Company Limited , que forma parte de una empresa comercial que denominamos Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology.
The Walt Disney Company Limited es un empleador que ofrece igualdad de oportunidades. Los solicitantes recibirán la consideración de empleo sin distinción de edad, raza, color, religión o creencia, sexo, nacionalidad, origen étnico o nacional, orientación sexual, reasignación de género, estado civil o de pareja civil, discapacidad, embarazo o maternidad. Disney fomenta una cultura 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 que cambia rápidamente.