About the position
On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we're reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world's most beloved stories while also redefining Disney's media business for the future. Whether that's evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to improve flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney's unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Building the future of Disney's media business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney's media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come. The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day - from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more. We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news. This role is part of the Tools and Operations Engineering Team within the DE&E Business Operations organization. Our group is passionate about creatively building the best solutions to solve complex business problems. Individuals interested in joining our organization should be highly motivated and committed to lifelong learning and improving, both in and out of the office. We strive to be flexible and adaptable to change, whether in the execution of projects or in the technologies we use to deliver our solutions. Members of this highly collaborative team rely on transparency, valuing the trust and relationships that evolve organically because of honesty and openness from both management and your peers. Success is not measured by individual accomplishments, but by the creation of innovative solutions delivered as a result of effective partnerships.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design of solutions within the team to deliver on business and user requirements.
- Contribute to code writing, development, and testing while providing leadership towards the completion of solutions.
- Mentor and coach more junior members of the team helping to improve their skills, knowledge and productivity.
- Work with Applications and data in Service Management, Financial Management, and Service Portfolio areas.
- Be the Security Champion, ensuring application and data security is at the center of all solutioning.
- Design, write, test and deploy code to develop and support solutions.
- Operate in a dynamic, quickly changing business environment, typically with little direct guidance.
- Contribute towards the end-to-end lifecycle of solutions by engaging in activities such as ideation, prototyping, building proofs of concept, research, design, architecture, planning, development, deployment, testing, documenting, maintaining, monitoring, fixing, upgrading, migrating, deprecating, and retiring systems or features.
- Conduct research, discovery, prototyping, proof of concept implementation, and design concepts.
- Participate in the technical evaluation and understanding of business needs to help gather requirements.
- Review code for correctness, and its impact on software and data architecture.
- Maintain and sustain data solutions by identifying and fixing defects or quality gaps.
- Leverage Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment disciplines to streamline the deployment of code.
- Participate, if required, in regular sustainment rotations within the team.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Science, or a relevant field.
- 5+ years of experience in a Software Engineering discipline.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking.
- Ability to write clean, maintainable, and scalable code.
- Ability to mentor junior developers and conduct code reviews.
- Strong proficiency in React.js and its ecosystem (Hooks, Context API, React Router, etc.).
- Experience with state management libraries (Redux etc).
- Knowledge of TypeScript for better type safety and scalability.
- Understanding of modern UI/UX principles and component-driven development.
- Strong experience with Node.js, Express.js, or NestJS for building APIs.
- Proficiency in RESTful APIs and GraphQL development.
- Knowledge of authentication & authorization (JWT, OAuth, OpenID).
- Experience with microservices architecture and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
- Understanding of testing frameworks (Jest, Mocha, Cypress, JUnit).
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with Java (Spring Boot) for enterprise-level applications.
- Experience with WebSockets for real-time applications.
- Knowledge of event-driven architectures (AWS SNS/SQS, Kafka, RabbitMQ).
- Understanding of serverless functions (AWS Lambda, Firebase Functions).
- Exposure to AI/ML integration in web applications.
Benefits
- Medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
- Bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package.
