The Walt Disney Company Nordic & Baltic
Lead Software Engineer
The Walt Disney Company Nordic & Baltic, Morrisville, North Carolina, United States, 27560
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The Walt Disney Company Nordic & Baltic . 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 businesses. We 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 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 News and 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. Media Engineering: Builds software and systems that prepare media content and metadata for the Disney Streaming platform, providing the best possible playback experience to viewers. The team handles audio, video, and metadata content from ingest through publish, supporting a scalable workflow. We build logic across players and back-end services to measure, control, and optimize playback across our stack. Product Engineering: A unified team responsible for engineering Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms, including product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity. We build platform-agnostic tools to test video on devices including smart TVs, Chromecast, browsers, Roku, iOS and Android, Playstation, Xbox, and set top boxes. Our team is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to help deliver excellent streaming experiences for Hulu and Disney+ as a developer of our client player. You will lead the design and implementation of our cross-platform player that runs Disney+ and Hulu on multiple devices. You will work with other technical teams in the application layer and backend video services to deliver features, own large features, set architectural direction, and mentor other engineers. Responsibilities Architect technical solutions for video player development and testing. Build tools for testing video playback on JavaScript-based devices. Lead programming, testing and debugging of applications or fixes to existing applications. Interact and coordinate deliverables with other technical groups in the organization. Coneive and set the architectural direction for development projects. Rapidly prototype and implement scalable, reliable, and maintainable media applications using TypeScript, JavaScript, and other web development technologies. Lead team members in problem analysis and issue resolution. Basic Qualifications 7+ years of software engineering experience with proficiency in writing optimized JavaScript (ES5 & ES6) and TypeScript with a low memory footprint. Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience. The ability to jump into a project and contribute immediately to both architecture and implementation. Outstanding communication, collaboration skills, and a strong ethic of teamwork. API design experience (authoring and providing feedback) with stakeholders. Quality-first demeanor with a focus on test automation and CI/CD. Strong code design and architectural skill. Strong analytical skills. Preferred Qualifications Experience with common development tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, Vite, AWS, Confluence, JIRA. Leadership, the ability to identify problems and drive towards solutions, and an eagerness to learn and teach new technologies & solve novel problems. Two to four years of project lead experience. Employment information: Full-time role with seniority level Mid-Senior level. #J-18808-Ljbffr
Lead Software Engineer
role at
The Walt Disney Company Nordic & Baltic . 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 businesses. We 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 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 News and 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. Media Engineering: Builds software and systems that prepare media content and metadata for the Disney Streaming platform, providing the best possible playback experience to viewers. The team handles audio, video, and metadata content from ingest through publish, supporting a scalable workflow. We build logic across players and back-end services to measure, control, and optimize playback across our stack. Product Engineering: A unified team responsible for engineering Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms, including product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity. We build platform-agnostic tools to test video on devices including smart TVs, Chromecast, browsers, Roku, iOS and Android, Playstation, Xbox, and set top boxes. Our team is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to help deliver excellent streaming experiences for Hulu and Disney+ as a developer of our client player. You will lead the design and implementation of our cross-platform player that runs Disney+ and Hulu on multiple devices. You will work with other technical teams in the application layer and backend video services to deliver features, own large features, set architectural direction, and mentor other engineers. Responsibilities Architect technical solutions for video player development and testing. Build tools for testing video playback on JavaScript-based devices. Lead programming, testing and debugging of applications or fixes to existing applications. Interact and coordinate deliverables with other technical groups in the organization. Coneive and set the architectural direction for development projects. Rapidly prototype and implement scalable, reliable, and maintainable media applications using TypeScript, JavaScript, and other web development technologies. Lead team members in problem analysis and issue resolution. Basic Qualifications 7+ years of software engineering experience with proficiency in writing optimized JavaScript (ES5 & ES6) and TypeScript with a low memory footprint. Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience. The ability to jump into a project and contribute immediately to both architecture and implementation. Outstanding communication, collaboration skills, and a strong ethic of teamwork. API design experience (authoring and providing feedback) with stakeholders. Quality-first demeanor with a focus on test automation and CI/CD. Strong code design and architectural skill. Strong analytical skills. Preferred Qualifications Experience with common development tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, Vite, AWS, Confluence, JIRA. Leadership, the ability to identify problems and drive towards solutions, and an eagerness to learn and teach new technologies & solve novel problems. Two to four years of project lead experience. Employment information: Full-time role with seniority level Mid-Senior level. #J-18808-Ljbffr