Lead Software Engineer - Back End

TieTalent; New York (NY); On-site; USD 156,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the media sector is looking for a Lead Software Engineer specializing in Back End development. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to design and implement innovative solutions that enhance user experience across platforms like Disney+, ESPN, and ABC. The successful candidate will leverage extensive experience in backend architectures and modern programming languages to advance the company’s tech initiatives. A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and exceptional communication skills are required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience crafting and operating backend services.
• Experience with Java, Scala, or Kotlin.
• Deep understanding of caching technologies like Redis.

Responsibilities

• Design new solutions and align with engineering and product teams.
• Write code to implement features and optimize services.
• Perform code reviews and mentor teammates.

Skills

agile

caching technologies

asynchronous programming

object-oriented programming

functional programming

communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

JVM services

Git

Grafana

Datadog

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Job Description

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.

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Job Posting Title:

Lead Software Engineer - Back End

Req ID

10122309

Job Description

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. This is an on-site position and must sit in one of our technology offices located above User Foundations The User Foundations team builds critical User Capabilities that are shared across all experiences on the streaming services: Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+ and Star+. We implement reliable, high-throughput services and pipelines for gathering information about our users,and delivering personalized experiences. We're a fast-paced, dynamic, collaborative and fun team, and are looking for someone who can slot right in and start delivering from day 1.
  
  

Job Summary

• As a Lead Software Engineer, you will collaborate closely with engineers, project managers, and product managers to find the best solution for our viewers. You will drive projects end-to-end: designing the initial solution; finding alignment with partner teams; execution of the necessary code; and overseeing the deployment of code to production. Members of the team look to your code and documentation as examples of excellence. You value good-faith collaboration, driving best practices, and promoting excellence on your team. If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you!
  
  

Responsibilities And Duties Of The Role

• Actively participate in daily stand-ups and other scrum ceremonies.
• Design new solutions and drive alignment across engineering and product teams.
• Expertly break down work at the epic level, setting project milestones with reasonable deadlines.
• Prioritize work within a project to deliver on the most necessary or urgent requirements.
• Anticipate and mitigate risk on projects.
• Effectively communicate with stakeholders on project progress.
• Write code to implement new features or optimize existing services.
• Determine the most efficient means to sufficiently test new code: unit tests, integration tests, performance tests, etc.
• Set best practices for the team for on-call responsibilities such as deployments, monitoring, and investigating incidents
• Use logs, monitoring tools, and work with developers to determine root causes across distributed components.
• Perform code reviews for members of the team, bearing a sense of responsibility for approved code.
• Coach and mentor teammates in an open, respectful, flexible, empathetic manner. Help onboard new team members.
  
  

Basic Qualifications

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
• 7+ years of related experience crafting and operating large-scale, high-availability backend services.
• Experience crafting and operating JVM services (such as Java, Scala, Kotlin).
• Proven track record of designing and driving consensus on backend architectures.
• Deep understanding of and experience using caching technologies (such as Redis, Memcached, EHcache).
• Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, databases, etc).
• Strong understanding of design patterns and principles.
• Experience with asynchronous programming.
• Experience with object-oriented programming patterns.
• Experience with functional programming patterns.
• Experience using source control systems and CI/CD pipelines (such as git, Github, Jenkins).
• Experience with AGILE/Scrum practices.
• Skilled at work breakdown and task estimation.
• 1+ years practicing operational best practices for service maintenance.
• Experience deploying and scaling within a cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with observability tools for metrics, logging, and monitoring (such as Datadog, Grafana).
• Strong communication skills and a desire to share your knowledge with team members and others across Disney Streaming.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience collaborating to drive organizational change.
  
  

The hiring range for this position in New York, NY is per year $156,300 - $209,600 per year, Seattle, WA is $156,300 - $209,600 per year, Bristol, CT is $149,300 - $200, 200 per year, and Glendale, CA is $149,300 - $200,200 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

Job Posting Segment

Product & Data Engineering

Job Posting Primary Business

PDE - Engagement Experiences & Platforms

Primary Job Posting Category

Software Engineer

Employment Type

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code

San Francisco, CA, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code

USA - CA - 3800 W Alameda Ave, USA - NY - 7 Hudson Square, USA - WA - 925 4th Ave

Date Posted

2025-06-10

Nice-to-have skills

• Java
• Scala
• Kotlin
• Redis
• Memcached
• Ehcache
• Git
• Github
• Jenkins
• Grafana
• New York, New York
  
  

Work experience

• Backend
• DevOps
• Site Reliability (SRE)
  
  

Languages

• English

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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