Senior Software Engineer - Scala

About Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology

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 with the following business segments: media networks, parks and resorts, studio entertainment, consumer products and interactive media. 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.

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology  is looking for a Sr Software Engineer to join the API Services team within the Engineering Services organization. The API Services team’s mission is to build highly available, high throughput services that are critical to delivering high quality content to our subscribers.

If you enjoy streaming media, are interested in live sports and entertainment, or just want to join a fast-growing team that plays an integral part of the revenue producing arm of a company, then our team is for you.

Technologies include Scala, Python, Apache Flink, Spark, Databricks, and AWS (ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, WAF, among others).  Experience in these areas is preferred but not required.

Qualifications:

• You collaborate with team members and project management to identify requirements, and provide technical solutions and direction.

• You are comfortable with ambiguity and being part of conversations where discordant views are present.

• You have an excellent understanding of software development fundamentals and architecture, and you aren't dogmatic about technology choices.

• You have experience with writing unit and integration tests, and can create a robust testing strategy.

• You have significant knowledge/experience with web technologies and web systems architecture.

• You have significant working knowledge of Java, Scala, and associated technologies.

• You have significant experience building and maintaining highly automated systems that leverage tools such as Jenkins, Cloud Formation, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Spinnaker.

• You preferably have knowledge/experience with AWS products and services (EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, CloudFront, etc.) or other cloud providers.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Collaborate with senior internal team members and external stakeholders to gather requirements and drive the implementation of solutions that support our business goals.   

• Design and develop test automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and reporting tools to support the flagship streaming mobile apps D+ and Hulu.

• Continuously identify and pursue opportunities to enhance systems, products, or services with each iteration.

• Advocate engineering best practices, including the use of design patterns, code review, and automated unit/functional testing. 

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent training or work experience.

• Typically has 5+ years of experience in a software engineering field.

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