Senior Analyst, Software Engineer

BUILD SOMETHING BIGGER THAN YOURSELF 
 

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: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, Disney Parks, and Experiences and Products. 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.

How you will contribute to our magical experience?

As a Senior Analyst Software Engineer, you will focus on creating and maintaining high impact systems and services. You will be an important part of a lean agile and automation culture where we’ll be looking for you to collaborate with engineering and product teams to build high quality solutions that meet business requirements.

The Senior Analyst Software Engineer will be responsible for:

• Be part of a flexible engineering delivery team deployed onto key projects in the distribution platforms space.
• Collaborate with local and remote technology teams across the globe.
• Be hands-on to build and support robust, secure, scalable, and efficient API-based services to integrate with systems in the media supply chain.
• Primarily focus on backend engineering systems.
• Work with US-based and UK-based engineering peers, product and project managers in agile-based work scheduling including sprint planning, sizing and retrospectives.
• Gain deep understanding of new technologies quickly, and where appropriate educate the team in best practices for their use.
• Ensure created services are sustainable and operationally fit for purpose, with appropriate documentation and test coverage.
• Mentor junior team members to develop their technical capabilities.
• Work with the team to iteratively improve development practices and processes.
• Perform code reviews and provide technical guidance and recommendations to the team.
• Analyze and resolve complex engineering problems.
• Contribute and review code, set standards, and work with engineers to ensure product and design specifications are met.
• Provide technical guidance and evangelize best practices. 
• Maintain a deep understanding of our core systems and how they interact with upstream and downstream dependencies.
• Responsible for fundamental platform performance, scalability, and resiliency.
• Partner with stakeholders to refine requirements and propose solutions to problems that span multiple teams.
• Contribute to cross-functional troubleshooting of complex issues as needed.
• Any other duties needed to help achieve Business Objectives. 

The Senior Analyst Software Engineer will be responsible for:

• 4+ years of experience in the field of software engineering, web development or equivalent experience.
• Position to work 100% remotely from anywhere in Brazil.
• Experience working with remote and multicultural teams is highly valued
• Advanced English level.
• Intermediate Spanish level.
• Excellent software engineering skills.
• Good understanding of JVM-based platforms (e.g. Java or Kotlin), and common frameworks and libraries (e.g. Spring, Spring Boot).
• Good understanding of scalable web architecture concepts.
• Good understanding of how to write and maintain a resourceful API using concepts such as REST, and how to secure them behind authentication and authorization gates.
• Experience with developing for cloud platforms, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and understanding of cloud-native architecture.
• Experience with full software development lifecycle and common best practices like unit testing, collaborative version control flows, and continuous integration.
• Enjoys learning new technologies.
• Self-starter with an interest in industry trends and a passion for innovation and raising the bar.

After the basic requirements, below are our preferred requirements. You don’t need to meet all of these, but it would be advantageous to meet one or more:

• Experience with other programming languages (we also use Python and Javascript).
• Experience with media production or distribution (video transcoding, streaming).
• Experience with build and deployment technologies such as Jenkins, Gitlab CI.
• Experience with infrastructure as code such as CloudFormation or Terraform.
• Experience documenting and diagramming technical information.
• Experience with distributed messaging and queueing platforms such as Kafka, SNS, SQS etc.
• Experience working with development teams across multiple regions, time zones and cultures.
• Strong curiosity about how Disney delivers the Magic and a desire to be a part of it.

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