Lead Software Engineer - Ad Platforms

About the position

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology (DEEP&T) is focused on creating magical viewing experiences and transforming Disney's media business. The Ad Serving Engineering organization is responsible for building and maintaining a high-performance, distributed, microservice-based Digital Advertising Platform that manages digital advertising campaigns across Disney's online properties. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will help deliver scalable and maintainable software while collaborating with various teams to enhance the advertising experience.

Responsibilities

• Writing and reviewing a lot of code and tests
• Available for a weekly-rotating On-Call support schedule
• Reading requirements documentation from Product and translating into implementation tickets, and leading the team through execution
• Defining, reviewing, and documenting software and system designs in a high throughput, low latency microservices environment
• Enhancing systems' observability with proper metrics, monitors and alerts
• Delegating tasks to team members, when needed

Requirements

• BS or MS in Computer Science / Engineering or relevant work experience
• 7+ years of software engineering experience
• Advanced proficiency with Java, such as understanding heap, multi-threading, profiling
• Demonstrable analytical / problem solving skills
• Great communication, collaboration skills and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical audiences

Nice-to-haves

• Comprehensive experience with SpringBoot and related Spring projects
• Non-relational database technologies e.g. DynamoDB
• Redis and/or MemCache
• Apache Kafka and/or Kinesis
• AWS or other cloud platform
• Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes
• Ad Tech industry

Benefits

• Medical, financial, and/or other benefits
• Bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package