AddressJob Summary:
About the Role & Team
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. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to improve flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.
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.
What You Will Do
As a member of the Experience Delivery – Entertainment team, you will build and support the tools, services and distribution APIs that deliver content to our websites including Disney.com, StarWars.com and over 100 domestic and international sites. We are looking for a passionate, impactful technologist who seeks to bring the best out in themselves and those around them. Someone who can provide a new perspective and innovative insight to our initiatives.
You’ll make a phenomenal fit for our team if you like to do these things:
- Collaborate with product managers and fellow engineers in the design and implementation of systems delivering high throughput experiences.
- Contribute to cross-team architecture discussions.
- Analyze and resolve complex engineering problems involving high trafficked web and mobile application services and APIs.
- Work with the team to iteratively improve development practices and processes.
- Help with full-stack development when needed.
- Research and experiment with the latest and greatest technologies to identify and apply them to current and future projects.
- Work with the team to iteratively improve development practices and processes.
- Contribute to code reviews.
You Will ...
- Be involved in the requirements gathering, analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of systems that support or enhance other applications within our environment.
- Collaborate & troubleshoot with the rest of the team in the analysis and resolution of hard engineering problems involving high trafficked web application services and API’s.
- Think of new ways to help make our data platform more scalable, resilient, and reliable and then work across our team to put your ideas into action.
- Research and learn new technologies.
Required Qualifications & Skills
- Java programming experience with a desire to learn Ruby.
- Knowledge of NoSQL and/or relational databases.
- Understanding of APIs, data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming concepts.
- Motivated self-starter with the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies.
- Strong analytical skills as well as solid capabilities for debugging and troubleshooting.
- Good communication skills and attention to detail.
Preferred Qualifications
- Exposure to cloud-based technologies such as AWS EC2, ECS, SQS, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, CloudFormation, Terraform, etc.
- Experience with the Spring, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, and/or MongoDB.
- Understanding of full-stack development with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and RESTful APIs/GraphQL.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
The hiring range for this position in Glendale, CA is $93,400 to $125,200 per year based on a 40 hour work week. The amount of hours scheduled per week may vary based on business needs. 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.
