Lead Software Engineer

About the position

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology is focused on creating magical viewing experiences and transforming the media business for the future. The organization is involved in evolving streaming and digital products, powering advertising and distribution, and delivering unmatched entertainment and sports content. The Media Engineering team aims to provide the best video playback experience and streamline technology across various business channels. The Tooling Ecosystem team manages critical applications that ensure data accuracy and user experience for streaming metadata.

Responsibilities

• Design and build robust software applications, utilizing software engineering to deliver high performance solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product and engineering, to identify opportunities, business impact, and technical requirements.
• Act in people supervisory capacity and serve as a technical leader, setting best practices and leading architectural discussions within the team.
• Mentor, empower, and provide career growth opportunities for team members.
• Prioritize tasks within a project to deliver high value initiatives, while anticipating and mitigating potential risk wherever possible.
• Manage AWS infrastructure supporting the tooling ecosystems.
• Work on improving overall performance of the Content Portal and CoCo applications.
• Contribute to a culture of collaboration and innovation.
• Build quality products.
• Provide on-call rotational support as needed.

Requirements

• BA/BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience required.
• 7+ years of web development experience required.
• Experience building consumer-facing single-page applications in JavaScript.
• Experience developing rich, interactive and well-performing user interfaces using frameworks like React, Angular, Vue.
• Experience building services using REST and GraphQL.

Nice-to-haves

• Previous work in a Scrum development environment.
• Experience writing unit tests / implementing test driven development processes.
• Experience writing Cypress test for visual automation.
• Domain knowledge software deployments.
• Experience with A/B Testing.

Benefits

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