Senior Software Engineer - Android

Job Title : Sr Software Engineer

About the Business

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.

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 :

Disney's Media Engineering Android team is seeking an experienced Software Engineer who is excited to build apps enjoyed by millions around the world. You will be building scalable, elegant solutions for all of Disney's Android applications that stream video across a wide array of devices including phones, tablets, and TVs. Our highly collaborative group works in tandem with many cross-functional teams. We value pristine communication skills, both written and verbal, as well as a bias for action. We are incredibly invested in maintaining high code quality standards with unit tests, automated tests, modern libraries, and a Kotlin codebase. We strive to build the best Live and video-on-demand (VOD) applications in the world, and we look forward to hearing more about your skills and how they can help us achieve this lofty goal.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role :

As a Senior Android Engineer at Disney, you are ready and willing to be responsible for a wide array of technical aspects. You assist with critical components including our release process, remote configuration management, and live production issues. You have and will lead entire projects from start to finish. While familiar with the high-level aspects of our project as a whole, you are also focused on and monitoring the health of the team. You not only seek out leadership opportunities to improve processes, but you do it with finesse and a positive attitude. You are comfortable facilitating career growth amongst team members and are invested in the long-term success of the company.

Responsibilities

Develop an understanding of the DE&ET software stack and specifically the MediaX component

Maintain and update the Android variant of the Disney Media Player

Understand the internals of android and how to debug and diagnose Android Device issues.

Collaborate with application development teams, services engineering teams and product management to help understand and explain device limitations and requirements

Ensure that the latest audio and video standards like Dolby Vision, Dolby ATMOS, DTS : X, HDR10+, and more are delivered with full fidelity.

Develop, Debug, Test and Benchmark various components in the software stack

Perform online code reviews of pull requests

Gather additional requirements and spec missing functionality required across various functional teams

Create and update documentation across the entire software development lifecycle as needed

Maintain a strong understanding of our code to identify, research and address issues

Contribute to strategies that ensure the quality and stability of our deployments, including testing strategies and telemetry approaches

Help to develop our project's build system and continuous integration system as needed

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and / or equivalent work experience

5+ years of production experience with Kotlin and the Android SDK

Proficiency with Reactive Programming and Dependency Injection

Well-versed in different architectural patterns (MVI / MVVM or equivalent)

Pristine communication skills who can collaborate well across teams

You write phenomenal code, tests, and documentation

Experience resolving production issues ideally on a large scale

Preferred Qualifications

Comfortable using common Android libraries such as Dagger 2 / Hilt, RxJava2, Groupie

Familiarity with Android TV / Amazon Fire TV development

Experience with streaming video, codecs, and DRM

Knowledgeable about maintaining a large, modularized codebase

Experience using performance evaluation tools such as Android Profiler

The hiring range for this position in New York, NY is $148,700 - $199,400. 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 : 10125649

Location : New York,New York

Job Posting Company : Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

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