Software Development Engineer I

Software Engineer I

About the Role & Team

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. 

Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:

1. Building the future of Disney’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.

2. Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally. 

3. Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

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.

What You Will Do

As a member of our team, you will strive to accomplish the following goals:

• Contributing to the successful implementation of solutions for complex technical problems with engineering teams

• Owning the development and maintenance of one or more functional areas of core frameworks, execution environments, build systems and tooling used across multiple products

• Leading the successful design & implementation of one or more project features with input from senior engineers

• Providing strategic input on future initiatives with stakeholders and other engineers

• Contributing to and collecting data to inform Key Performance Indicators used for defining project statuses and effectiveness 

• Check-in valuable, clean code daily that adds new features and capabilities

• Becoming a core member of our Quality Engineering team, helping others increase productivity through innovation, and championing the core value of Disney Quality

• Developing and supporting test automation frameworks, execution environments, build systems, and reporting tools

• Work with product and development teams to implement a full stack quality solution

• Investigating and resolving any framework, tool or execution of environmental issues affecting our services

• Becoming a core member of our Productivity Engineering team, helping others increase productivity through innovation, and championing the core value of Disney Quality

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Proficient in object-oriented design and expertise with one of the following programming languages: Node/JavaScript, Java, Python

• Experience with test automation and unit testing frameworks

• Excellent problem-solving skills.

• Excellent collaboration skills and ability to use standard software development lifecycle (SDLC) tools such as Jira and Confluence, and version control systems.

• Organized, detail-oriented and able to deliver project tasks on time.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Highly motivated, self-starting individual

Preferred Qualifications & Skills

• Progressive experience in a software development (SDE) occupation, including automated testing of front end and backend services

• Experience shipping a production React or Node.js application

• Experience in mobile application development and testing

• Experience with developing applications in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS)

• Experience working with Agile methodologies

• Working knowledge of web accessibility fundamentals

• Experience with Kafka, Amazon SQS, and Kinesis

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Spinnaker, and continuous integration/delivery systems

• Experience writing Gherkin Syntax to facilitate the development of automated test scenarios

• Experience developing advanced mocking mechanisms (e.g., rule-based proxies and dummy-services)

• Experience with test suite/case/run management tools (e.g., JIRA Xray, etc.)

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or a comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience