Senior Software Engineer - Android

The Walt Disney Company; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 138,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading entertainment company as a Senior Software Engineer focused on Android development. Work with a dynamic team to create innovative media solutions that enhance user experiences. Your expertise will directly impact millions of consumers globally. Collaborate in a creative environment to build cutting-edge products that shape the future of entertainment. If you are passionate about technology and storytelling, this role offers a unique opportunity to make a difference.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in front-end application development with Kotlin.
• Experience building consumer-facing interactive experiences.
• Deep understanding of computer science fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and test features for the Renderer component.
• Collaborate on the specification and design of Disney Markup Language.
• Support integration with Client engineers across Disney’s brands.

Skills

Leadership

Problem Solving

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

GitHub

JIRA

MS Teams

Job description

Senior Software Engineer - Android

Apply Now Apply Later Job ID 10120990 Location New York, New York, United States / Bristol, Connecticut, United States / Santa Monica, California, United States / Burbank, California, United States / Glendale, California, United States / Seattle, Washington, United States Business Disney Entertainment Date posted5月. 13, 2025

Job Summary:

Disney Entertainment & ESPN 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.

A few reasons why we think you’d love working for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology:

• Building the future of Disney’s media business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney’s media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.

• Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day – from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.

• Innovation: We develop and execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.

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.

Job Summary:

We’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer who will be an outstanding addition to our Android team. The right person for this role is highly motivated, collaborative, and technical, with the ability to coordinate across teams and empower both themselves and others in striving for and achieving excellence. Everything we do directly affects millions of global consumers, their experience with our service, and impacts our business.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

The Disney eXperience Composer is a bespoke solution for serving interactive experiences to users by allowing Designers to specify designs and behaviors for ingestion into a system where they are served using a custom protocol called Disney Markup Language to a Renderer embedded in the application. The DXC team is responsible for authoring and maintaining the Renderer component of the solution. The successful candidate will:

• Participate in the specification and design of Disney Markup Language (DML) in collaboration with other engineers.

• Design, implement, and test features that expand the capabilities of the Renderer based on the DML specification.

• Support the integration of your platform’s Renderer component with Client engineers across Disney’s streaming brands.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in front-end application development with proficiency in writing optimized Kotlin solutions with a low memory footprint.

• Leadership, the ability to identify problems and drive towards solutions, and an eagerness to learn and teach new technologies & solve novel problems.

• Experience building consumer-facing interactive experiences.

• A deep understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, etc.).

• Extensive experience with the Android development ecosystem.

• Experience developing sophisticated user interfaces.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building consumer-facing interactive experiences, ideally in a video playback context.

• Experience tackling the challenges of developing renderer technologies.

• Experience with our common development tools such as: GitHub, Confluence, JIRA, MS Teams.

• Experience building applications backed by web-services is a plus.

• Launched or worked on an international product.

• Strong experience with Scrum methodology.

Required Education:

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent job experience.

The hiring range for this position in Los Angeles is $138,900 to $186,200 per year, in San Francisco is $152,100 to $203,900 per year, and in New York/Seattle is $145,400 to $195,000 and in Seattle 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.

About Disney Entertainment:

At Disney Corporate you can see how the businesses behind the Company’s powerful brands come together to create the most innovative, far-reaching and admired entertainment company in the world. As a member of a corporate team, you’ll work with world-class leaders driving the strategies that keep The Walt Disney Company at the leading edge of entertainment. See and be seen by other innovative thinkers as you enable the greatest storytellers in the world to create memories for millions of families around the globe.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

This position is with Disney Streaming Technology LLC , which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment .

Disney Streaming Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. 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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