Senior Product Software Engineer

Senior Product Software Engineer

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.

The Disney Media Player Engineering team mission is to design video streaming playback solutions in collaboration with encoding, packaging, and delivery teams to optimize the Disney streaming technology stack for the best streaming experience possible on all platforms. Our team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to create a feature-rich standard streaming media playback library on Apple devices, spanning all Disney direct-to-consumer brands like Disney+, ESPN, ABC News, and Hulu.

Your focus will be on collaborating with media playback teams on other platforms to ensure a consistent software architecture which delivers a best-in-class streaming experience for viewers while providing a foundation for media playback innovation at Disney.

• Design and implement solutions in collaboration with team-members for new features which integrate with various Disney media services and back-ends.
• Collaborate on API design with peer teams on API Services as well as front-end teams which depend on our libraries.
• Research and develop media playback experiences, integration, and testing.
• Participate in project estimation and resource planning.
• Collaborate in a small, productive development team as well as the larger engineering organization.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues, problems, and errors encountered across our various platforms.
• Specialize in Apple technologies such as UIKit, SwiftUI, AVKit and Store Kit to build a world-class application.

• At least 5 years of industry experience in iOS software development, 3 of which have been spent using Swift.
• At least 5 years of industry experience implementing complex user interfaces using Apple's UIKit or SwiftUI.
• At least 3 years of experience in agile processes to help the team be effective and efficient.
• Able to demonstrate experience in the full lifecycle of software development, including early stage, maintenance, and end of life.
• Understanding of the trade-offs of using different design patterns, such as MVC or MVVM.
• Knowledgeable in programming paradigms including Object Oriented and Reactive.
• Understanding of iOS/TVOS app development lifecycle.
• Experience in Object Oriented Programming.
• Write efficient, reliable, and maintainable code whether implementing improvements, user-facing features, or fixing defects – through collaboration with senior team members.
• Experience with unit test frameworks and continuous integration systems.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Motivated self-starter with the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies.

• Experience with AV Foundation and its ecosystem.
• Experience with streaming technologies including HLS, MPEG-DASH, Transport Stream, and CMAF.
• Experience developing applications in all Apple platforms including iPhone, iPad, and TVOS.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

The hiring range for this position in New York, NY is $ to $ 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 other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.