Technical Lead Software Engineer

At The Walt Disney Company we’re responsible for building what aims to be the largest media streaming platform in the world, serving not just Disney+, but ESPN+, Star+, and Hulu. We foster innovation, we challenge each other, and we put our users before all else: connecting them with the stories they love.

We’re looking for people who want to challenge themselves, to grow; people who understand scale and care deeply about reliability. You will be surrounded by colleagues eager to help you succeed and be part of an ambitious, high-performing, rewarding culture. If this sounds like something for you, read on!

Job Summary

Work within one of Disney’s service engineering teams, supporting a variety of backend API services that directly support the Disney+ platform as part of the Growth and Commerce organisation.        Contribute to dynamic, autonomous and self-motivated software teams that own the full development, delivery and operational support responsibilities of critical global services.

Our engineering teams are advocates of functional programming, so you can expect to join a team that’s applying principles from FP to build these services: using Scala, Cats, ZIO, http4s, FS2, and Cats Effect.

The Opportunity & Responsibilities: 

• Be part of an Agile team building the world's fastest growing media streaming platform
• Contribute to an inclusive culture that values learning & development, close collaboration between team members, and strives for excellence
• Leverage, learn and apply cutting edge technologies on challenging and varied business domains
• Develop your technical understanding to support and build your career
• Have the opportunity to contribute to our open source or blog communities
• Apply principled engineering practices including unit testing, integration testing, and continuous integration
• Lead a significant part of the implementation, design, testing, and deployment of services within your team
• Act as a mentor and an example to others in your team and across the organisation

The Experience We Require From You: 

• 7+ years engineering experience
• Demonstrable understanding of high-quality coding, testing, and development practices
• Experience working in a “Devops” environment
• Experience or interest in functional programming and its real-world applications particularly Scala stacks such as Scalaz, Cats Effect and ZIO
• Experience of designing, building & operating distributed systems with multi-level failover & fallback strategies
• Experience with Cloud Infrastructure, preferably with AWS
• Experience building micro/web services - including REST and GraphQL
• Monitoring and optimising applications, especially those written for the JVM
• Relational and NoSQL databases, particularly PostgreSQL, Aurora, & DynamoDB with experience modelling & optimising query performance
• Kinesis or any other streaming data
• Excellent communication skills, specifically in understanding, framing and simplifying both technical & business requirements
• Comfort with ambiguity and leading conversations where discordant views are present
• Experience mentoring and coaching more junior engineers on both technical and soft skills
• Contributions to the technical community, either through blogs, internal workshops, meetups or conferences