Product Software Engineer II

The Walt Disney Company; New York (NY); In loco; USD 125.000 - 167.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

The Walt Disney Company in New York is seeking a software professional to design and implement backend components for Disney's Unified Messaging Platform. You will work on cloud-based data transformations, ensuring scalability, reliability, and high performance across services.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams in an agile environment, participate in code reviews, and mentor junior developers while delivering features end-to-end with quality and robust architecture.

Competenze

• 3+ years of experience building internet-scale web or services applications.
• Experience with Java, cloud services, and common development tools.
• Strong understanding of software development fundamentals and tests.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and modern agile teams.

Mansioni

• Design core backend components for the Unified Messaging Platform.
• Implement cloud-based asynchronous data transformations.
• Lead service design with focus on scalability and reliability.
• Collaborate with squad, PMs, designers, QA, and operations.
• Provide guidance to junior developers and participate in code reviews.
• Participate in Scrum ceremonies and on-call rotation.
• Own features end-to-end with robust architecture.
• Ramp up on new domains and technologies.

Conoscenze

Java

Cloud services

Git

SVN

Jira

Basecamp

CI/CD

Unit tests

Integration tests

Functional tests

Agile

Formazione

Bachelor's degree in CS/Info Systems/Software/Engineering

Strumenti

React

TypeScript

Terraform

AWS

Descrizione del lavoro

Disney Entertainment and 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.

Reasons to work with us

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.

Messaging Fleet

The Messaging Fleet is responsible for maintaining the Unified Messaging Platform (UMP), a multi-channel (push, email, sms) marketing support system. The platform provides marketing with the tools needed to drive engagement, retention, and legal transactional messaging requirements through segmentation, targeting, scheduling, and a sophisticated decision engine that automates and personalizes messages for every user.

Responsibilities

• Design core, backend software components for the Unified Messaging Platform and implement tier-1 microservices in Java.
• Implement asynchronous processes to run in the cloud for various data transformation operations.
• Lead the design & enhancement of critical services in UMP, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability. Research and integrate new technologies into the production environment to optimize core service offerings.
• Work on tech design for various initiatives and projects as per business needs.
• Provide technical guidance to junior team members, covering code quality, system design, and best practices in software development. Actively participate in code reviews, offering constructive feedback to improve code quality, system reliability, and performance.
• Collaborate with your squad, Product Managers, Designers, QA, Operations, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and articulate technical decisions and outcomes.
• Participate in Agile methodology and SCRUM processes such as Sprint Planning, Backlog grooming, Daily Standups, and Retrospectives with the team.
• Provide on-call support for critical services on a rotational basis.
• Own features/functionality and deliver projects end-to-end with high quality and robust architecture.
• Ramp up on new domains and technologies.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
• 3+ years of experience building internet-scale web or services applications.
• Experience in Java, cloud services, and management tools (e.g. Git, SVN, Jira, Basecamp)
• Excellent understanding of software development fundamentals
• Experience with writing unit, integration and functional tests
• Experience with standard CI/CD procedures & tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Spinnaker.
• Proven ability to integrate with service APIs and/or SDKs.
• Experience working in a modern, agile software team with version control & project.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge or certification with AWS services, including ECS (Docker), S3, EC2, Lambda, CloudWatch
• Experience with big data technologies & tools like Spark, Databricks, EMR
• Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure as code tooling
• Experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, high-uptime systems
• Creative and inventive problem solving
• Experience mentoring other developers
• Experience with UI frameworks (React/Typescript)
• Knowledge of JavaScript

Salary & Benefits

The hiring range for this position in New York, NY is $124,900 to $167,400 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.

Disclaimer

This position is with Disney Entertainment & Sports LLC, which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology.

Disney Entertainment & Sports LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.

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