Senior, Software Engineer

BUILD SOMETHING BIGGER THAN YOURSELF

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.

How will you contribute to our magical experience?

The team is responsible for all tools that provide expert views into the media and metadata processing pipelines as well as engineering development and deployment tools for specialized media workflows that serve operations teams responsible for publishing content to Disney’s Direct to Consumer services.

The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for:

• Craft web application software using REACT, with strong software development fundamentals and strong design principles (object oriented or functional).
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
• Contribute to a culture of collaboration and innovation. 
• Build quality products.
• Provide on-call rotational support as needed .
  
  
  

What we need from you to be part of this story:

• 4+ years of software engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Experience in backend and frontend development using technologies such as Python, Java, or JavaScript, with a strong focus on React.
• Advanced level of English.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, high-growth, or startup environments.
• Strong problem-solving and root cause analysis skills.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and Git version control.
• Experience with AWS/cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, Git, Jenkins, Docker, and messaging systems like Kafka, Kinesis, or SQS (is a plus)
• Familiarity with media player integration, web accessibility, web standards, modern technologies, and async/concurrent programming (is a plus)
  
  
  

Additional Information

At Disney, we believe it takes great people to create the memorable experiences, products and services our consumers know and love. We are a team of storytellers and hire under equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, disability and gender identity. We foster a corporate culture of belonging and inclusiveness, which empowers our staff and company to thrive. At Disney, everyone has the opportunity to speak up and participate, grow and share ideas.

“You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.” — Walt Disney