Software Engineer - Fullstack

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:

• 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.
• 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. 
• 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.

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product and Technology is looking for a Fullstack Engineer to join the Quality, Targeting, and Experience team inside the Media Engineering organization.

The Quality, Targeting, and Experience team is responsible for building intelligent tools for managing how media gets from our servers to the customer watching the media. This includes, CDN routing optimization, playback quality, piracy detection, and other areas critical to the success of our streaming platforms. This position, in particular, will focus on building solutions to bridge the gap between our existing tools, our external partners, and our internal stakeholders. This is a full stack position since there are user interfaces which support our internal users but is also very focused on building backend and middleware solutions to work with those interfaces.

Technologies we use include Python, JS, Go, PostgresQL, Kubernetes, Git, AWS (CloudFront, Lambda, Kinesis, Aurora, many others) and more. Experience in these areas is highly valued but not required.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop user interfaces and the apis that power them
• Translate technical project plans into well defined easy to estimate tasks 
• Serve as an active owner of team remit proactively identifying and vying for improvements
• Curate nuanced well reasoned opinions from first principles to guide team decisions ● Be an excellent partner to team members across all levels 

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of 3+ years of related work experience
• Proven experience in designing and developing user interfaces for web applications
• Experience with software development lifecycles and agile methodologies
• Experience with writing software unit tests
• Knowledge of software version control systems
• Demonstrated success operating in self-directed environments 
• Track record of using empirical evidence to make decisions
• Curious by nature with a proven passion for learning
• History of leveraging excellent communication, empathy, and reason when collaborating
• Deeply pragmatic, able to identify high-leverage solutions without being dogmatic in approach
• Experience with distributed systems preferably within a cloud environment

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.

The hiring range for this position in New York, NY and Seattle, WA is $120,300 to $161,300 per year, in Santa Monica, CA is $114,900 to $154,100 per year, and in San Francisco, CA is $125,800 to $168,700 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.