Lead Software Engineer (Full-Stack), Ad Platforms

About Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology (DEEP&T)

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The Ad platform engineering organization within the Disney Entertainment / ESPN Product & Technology organization is fully responsible for building, enhancing, and maintaining the high-performance, distributed, microservice-based, cutting-edge digital advertising platform. The platform enables the configuration, qualification, delivery, and tracking of digital advertisements globally across Disney video-on-demand and Live TV properties, including Hulu, Disney+, ESPN, and more.

As part of ad platform engineering, the programmatic teams build and maintain Disney's programmatic advertising suite of products and services that comprise Disney's Real-time Ad Exchange (DRAX). DRAX is an award-winning, in-house SSP that enables the configuration of programmatic deals and integrates programmatic demand from multiple third-party sources into the Disney ad server in real time.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will apply your deep technical knowledge and skills to help us deliver scalable, performant, maintainable, loosely coupled, encapsulated, and testable software.

Daily, you should bring :

A willingness and desire to effectively communicate and collaborate across teams and systems

Demonstrated project ownership

A deep understanding of full stack development and the Software Development Lifecycle

System and API design, and implementation best practices to guide and mentor, for example, micro-service encapsulation and loose coupling

A proven ability to work with product teams to translate requirements into well-defined technical implementations, as well as the ability to define technical and operational metrics to measure system health

A keen eye for potential optimizations and enhancements

Kindness and pragmatic optimism

A passion for mentoring, learning, and adapting to a very dynamic and fast-paced environment

Responsibilities :

Holistic understanding of the team's domain and serving as a point of contact for stakeholders

Leading by example, supporting their peers, and striving to improve code and design towards more scalable, clean, and decoupled implementations

Facilitate discussions and drive resolution, making sure outcomes are clear and well-communicated

Designing, implementing, and testing solutions to various engineering problems in a high-throughput, low-latency microservices environment

Understanding and use of automated tools (AI) while adhering to company policy

Reading and understanding product user stories, translating them into actionable tasks, and leading the team through their execution

Enhancing systems' observability with proper metrics, monitors, and alerts

Available for On-Call rotations based on the team's escalation policy and support schedule

Basic Qualifications :

7+ years of software engineering experience

Advanced proficiency with Java

Proficiency with Typescript

Demonstrable analytical / problem-solving skills

Great communication, collaboration skills, and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical audiences

Experience with :

SpringBoot and related Spring projects

Non-relational database technologies like DynamoDB

Proficiency with Javascript frameworks(React, node.js)

Caching datastores such as Redis, ValKey, or MemCache

Data Streaming Mechanisms such as Apache Kafka and / or Kinesis

Cloud platforms such as AWS

Modern DevOps tools such as Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes

Microservice architecture

Preferred Qualifications :

• Domain knowledge in the Ad Tech industry

Required Education :

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The hiring range for this position in Glendale, California is $152,200 to $204,100 per year and Santa Monica, California is $152,200 to $204,100 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's 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 ID : 10123897

Location : Glendale,California

Job Posting Company : Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

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