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The Walt Disney Company

Senior Software Engineer

The Walt Disney Company, Bristol, Connecticut, us, 06010

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Senior Software Engineer

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 transforming Disney’s media business for the future. The Product & Data Engineering team is responsible for end-to-end development for Disney’s world-class consumer-facing products, including streaming platforms Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+, and digital products & experiences across ESPN, Marvel, Disney Studios, NatGeo, and ABC News. A few reasons why we think you’d love working for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology: 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.

Reach & Scale: 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.

Innovation: We develop and execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.

The Sports Interactive team builds systems that power content across a multitude of ESPN products and scales to millions of individual users. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be part of a diverse and talented organization focused on building and maintaining complex web applications for ESPN. Responsibilities and Duties of the Role: Build components and modules that are used by millions of fans around the world

Bring our UI to life by connecting components to live APIs

Partner with other engineering teams to solve complex problems while considering performance, scalability, caching, resiliency, and flexibility for expanding product requirements

Test code through various means: unit tests, integration tests, performance tests etc

Maintain a deep understanding of our core systems and how they interact with upstream and downstream dependencies.

Responsible for fundamental platform performance, scalability, and resiliency

Partner with stakeholders to refine requirements, and propose solutions to problems that span multiple teams

Contribute to cross-functional troubleshooting of complex issues as needed

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training: Basic Qualifications Minimum of 5+ years of related work experience

Extensive experience with JavaScript and JS Frameworks, such as React and NodeJS.

Experience with full stack programming, including JavaScript/TypeScript/NodeJS, shell scripting and other similar technologies.

Expertise with full lifecycle of application development, including best practices of unit testing, code reviews, documentation, etc.

Motivated self-starter with the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies. Can effectively articulate complex ideas and influence others through well-reasoned explanations

Enjoy working within a team setting of engineers of varying experience

Excellent written and verbal communication skill with both technical and non-technical audiences

Education BS Computer Science or related technical discipline or its equivalent

Additional Desired Qualifications Previous work experience in media & entertainment distribution

Experience working with vendor teams to deliver high quality results

Experience leveraging cloud platform services, preferably within AWS

Experience with build and deployment tools

Experience instrumenting and monitoring applications via metrics, logs, and dashboards

Strong curiosity about how Disney delivers the Magic and a desire to be a part of it

Disney Streaming Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law.

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