Senior Backend Engineer, Media Platform

The Walt Disney Company; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology, Seattle-based, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and deliver scalable backend architectures and services supporting Disney’s media platforms. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and mentor engineers while driving reliable, high-performance systems.

Why join: work on iconic brands and cutting-edge content platforms, with opportunities to influence architecture and delivery at scale in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• BS Computer Science or related technical discipline or its equivalent.
• 5+ years related experience designing backend architectures and delivering backend applications in a production environment.
• Experience with Java, GraphQL, REST APIs, microservice architectures, async programming.
• Experience with Spring Framework.
• Experience with architecture and delivery of high volume, cached, fault tolerant, multi-threaded scalable systems.

Responsibilities

• Building scalable, maintainable, and well-tested software solutions which are flexible to meet the requirements of multiple customers and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with other software engineers and cross-functional teams.
• Work independently to design, build, test, and deploy high quality software solutions.
• Provide technical guidance and evangelize best practices.
• Maintain a deep understanding of our core systems and how they interact with upstream and downstream dependencies.
• Contribute and review code, set standards, and work with engineers to ensure product and design specifications are met.
• Responsible for fundamental platform performance, scalability, and resiliency.
• Partner with stakeholders to refine requirements, and propose solutions to problems that span multiple teams.
• Contribute to cross-functional troubleshooting of complex issues as needed.
• Troubleshoot issues and fix defects.
• Mentor junior engineers and conduct code reviews.

Skills

Java

GraphQL

REST APIs

Microservices

Spring Framework

Cloud-based technologies

Docker

Jenkins

Terraform/CloudFormation

Agile/Scrum

Team collaboration

Education

BS Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Gitlab-CI

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

MongoDB

Redis

Elasticsearch

Postgres

DynamoDB

Job description

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology, Seattle-based, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and deliver scalable backend architectures and services supporting Disney’s media platforms. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and mentor engineers while driving reliable, high-performance systems.

Why join: work on iconic brands and cutting-edge content platforms, with opportunities to influence architecture and delivery at scale in a fast-paced environment.