Product Software Engineer II

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Product Software Engineer II

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Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Technology is at the heart of Disneys 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 Disneys media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products enhance storytelling and drive velocity innovation and scalability for our are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Companys media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.

Here are a few reasons why we think youd love working here:

Building the future of Disneys media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media advertising and distribution businesses for years to come.

Reach Scale & Impact: More than ever Disneys technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans connections with the companys brands and stories. Disney. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC Newsand many more. These products and brands and the unmatched stories storytellers and events they carry matter to millions of people globally.

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

Messaging Fleet is responsible for maintaining the Unified Messaging Platform (UMP) a multi-channel (push email sms) marketing support system. The platform provides marketing with the tools needed to drive engagement retention and legal transactional messaging requirements through segmentation targeting scheduling and a sophisticated decision engine that automates and personalizes messages for every user.

Responsibilities

• Design core backend software components for the Unified Messaging Platform and implement tier-1 microservices in Java.
• Implement asynchronous processes to run in the cloud for various data transformation operations.
• Lead the design & enhancement of critical services in UMP ensuring scalability performance and reliability. Research and integrate new technologies into the production environment to optimize core service offerings.
• Work on tech design for various initiatives and projects as per business needs.
• Provide technical guidance to junior team members covering code quality system design and best practices in software development. Actively participate in code reviews offering constructive feedback to improve code quality system reliability and performance.
• Collaborate with your squad Product Managers Designers QA Operations and other stakeholders to understand requirements and articulate technical decisions and outcomes.
• Participate in Agile methodology and SCRUM processes such as Sprint Planning Backlog grooming Daily Standups and Retrospectives with the team.
• Provide on-call support for critical services on a rotational basis.
• Own features/functionality and deliver projects end-to-end with high quality and robust architecture.
• Ramp up on new domains and technologies.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Software Electrical or Electronics Engineering or comparable field of study and/or equivalent work experience.
• 3 years of experience building internet-scale web or services applications.
• Experience in Java cloud services and management tools (e.g. Git SVN Jira Basecamp)
• Excellent understanding of software development fundamentals
• Experience with writing unit integration and functional tests
• Experience with standard CI/CD procedures & tools like Jenkins GitHub Actions and Spinnaker.
• Proven ability to integrate with service APIs and/or SDKs.
• Experience working in a modern agile software team with version control & project.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge or certification with AWS services including ECS (Docker) S3 EC2 Lambda CloudWatch
• Experience with big data technologies & tools like Spark Databricks EMR
• Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure as code tooling
• Experience building scalable fault-tolerant high-uptime systems
• Creative and inventive problem solving
• Experience mentoring other developers
• Experience with UI frameworks (React/Typescript)
• Knowledge of JavaScript

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The hiring range for this position in New York NY is $123000 to $165000 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidates geographic region job-related knowledge skills and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package in addition to the full range of medical financial and/or other benefits dependent on the level and position offered.

Job Posting Segment:

PE - Streaming Backend

Job Posting Primary Business:

PE - Streaming Backend - Messaging & Audience Engineering

Primary Job Posting Category:

Product Software Engineering

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City State Region Postal Code:

New York NY USA

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