Senior Full-Stack Engineer - Ad Decisioning & Platform

ESPN; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 158,000 - 212,000; Full time

Job summary

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to design, implement, and optimize a high-performance ad serving platform that supports Disney's streaming and media properties.

You will own microservices, collaborate across teams, and help integrate AI-assisted development, with on-call rotations and a focus on observability, scalability, and reliability.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science/Engineering or relevant work experience.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proficiency with Java.
• Experience with ReactJS or similar frontend frameworks.
• Demonstrable analytical / problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and test solutions for high-throughput, low-latency microservices.
• Enhance observability with metrics, monitoring, and alerting.
• Translate product requirements into actionable engineering tasks.
• Take ownership of one or more of the team's domain areas.
• Integrate AI-assisted development practices into daily workflows.
• Participate in On-Call rotations per team escalation policy.

Skills

Java

ReactJS

Analytical skills

Communication

Teamwork

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science / Engineering

Tools

SpringBoot

DynamoDB

Redis

Kafka

Kinesis

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to design, implement, and optimize a high-performance ad serving platform that supports Disney's streaming and media properties.

You will own microservices, collaborate across teams, and help integrate AI-assisted development, with on-call rotations and a focus on observability, scalability, and reliability.