Senior Software Engineer I

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

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

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Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:

1.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.

2.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.

3.Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Product Engineering

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.

Job Summary:

Data Experience is a tightly knit team working within the Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology’s (DE&E Tech) Data department. We focus on building cutting-edge applications, reducing redundancy, and providing end-to-end solutions that optimize our business processes. While focused on full-stack application development, we often foray into platform connectivity, BI tools, and big-data visualizations.

As the business place moves toward more data-driven decision making, the ability to access data easily becomes very important. In turn, we work closely with Data Science, Marketing, and Personalization teams to create one-of-a-kind applications that enable the Disney Company to reach new heights of customer outreach and conversion. While we use known technologies to speed our development process, we also contribute to and push enterprise design and productivity through our innovative partnerships.

Using your skills and experience in full-stack development, you will join a fun team of technically capable individuals that pride themselves on delivering the highest quality product. Most of our applications are written in a NodeJS/Typescript/React stack, but we cover many languages and frameworks with our breadth of experience. In this role, you will focus on pulling disparate business tools into a consistent and coherent platform. As such, you will be called on to reimagine known and functional processes or user experiences into new forms to create a more seamless experience.

We often work as a fast response team to groups across the organization to provide recommendations and assistance to teams from design through delivery of new interfaces. As such, the front-end aspect of our full-stack team can’t be an afterthought for someone in this role. The ability to change idioms and codebases is essential to the role’s responsibilities. Our work is fun and challenging, and we are often asked to break new ground in terms of user experience and application functionality.

Join our small-but-mighty team in DE&E Tech and be a part of the magic!

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Full-stack application development using NodeJS/Express/React Typescript stack - Creation, maintenance, and support of a Near-Real-Time reporting and visualization platform from API-layer outward
• Planning discussions, team interactions, creating feature proposals
• Broader platform team discussions and interactions

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

As a member of our team, you will strive to accomplish the following goals:

• Contribute to the successful implementation of solutions facing our platform and occasionally the broader DE&E teams
• Contribute to the development of frameworks, environments, build systems, and tooling for our platform

•Contribute to the platform-level support of various visualization tools for reporting across the enterprise through APIs and embedded reporting •Contribute to the platform-level unification of numerous tools into a consistent and coherent application

• Support the strategic analysis of existing technologies, future projects, and execution options
• Contribute to the definition of project / platform architecture and its proliferation Contribute to a clean-code environment utilizing shared-code best practices Become a core member of our team, building a platform of excellence that strives for optimized processes, maintainability, and accountability

Responsibilities:

• Develop full-stack applications as part of a unified platform and user experience
• Write code that is concise, optimized, and well-tested
• Contribute to team discussions and planning sessions
• Support a broad platform of associated tooling through on-call rotation
• Deliver functional and supportable product as part of an agile development team
• Work with design and test teammates to deliver high-quality and testable features
• Write documentation for platform, functionality, or processes to augment knowledge transfer
• Review teammate’s code and pull requests for overall quality, standards alignment, and test coverage

Required Education and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or the foreign equivalent in Computer Science or a closely related field with 5+ years of progressive experience in a software development (SDE) occupation, including automated testing of front end and backend services
• Proficient in application development including NodeJS and React in JavaScript / Typescript
• 5+ years of experience with full-stack application development
• 5+ years of experience with high-test coverage delivery using unit- and front-end-test frameworks
• 3+ years of experience building cross-functional and broadly scoped platforms
• Experience with application builds in an infrastructure-as-code system (Terraform, Kubernetes, Cloud Formation, etc.)
• Experience with development in a CI/CD/CT environment
• Experience with performance tuning for large-data-set front-end / visualizations
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Organized, detail-oriented and able to deliver project tasks on time
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Being a highly motivated, self-starting individual
  

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with large-scale data libraries such as Druid

• Experience collaborating with shared React component library
• Experience with documentation creation / maintenance
• Experience with developing applications in cloud platforms (e.g. AWS)
• Experience working with Agile methodologies
• Working knowledge of web accessibility fundamentals
• Experience with Kafka, Amazon SQS, or Kinesis
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Spinnaker, and continuous integration/delivery systems
• Experience developing mocking mechanisms for tests

This position is with Disney (India) Private Limited, which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology.

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