Senior Software Engineer - Java

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.

As a Software Engineer, you will join Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology's Growth & Commerce Platform Growth Life Orchestration Team. Disney has been investing tremendously in modernizing its platform by developing a platform layer that exposes the commerce system's capabilities to our front-end device clients (Web, mobile, living room devices) and our service partners like the customer service platform. The team's primary objective is to abstract away the core commerce domains from client teams and centralize all of the Growth & Commerce Platform capabilities into one shared layer.

Another objective of the team is to decouple these core commerce systems to allow for faster feature delivery.

** Responsibilities*
* Work alongside the Product and Business teams to understand the business implications and user flows for sign-up and user account management.

+ Contribute to designs and develop a future proof API layer that exposes the commerce lifecycle platform capabilities to various clients.

+ Review and develop robust API contracts and scalable microservices for internal clients.

+ Assist in creating technical proposals to illustrate the high-level design and system flow between clients and backend systems.

+ Understand key dependencies such as the core subscription, billing, and payment systems and how they will affect clients.

+ Contribute to the end-to-end software development lifecycle for our systems: conceptualize, design, build, code review, test, load test, launch, and measure performance.

+ Collaborate with the Product team to translate requirements into well-defined technical implementation.

** 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

+ Minimum of 5 years of related work experience

+ Strong code design and architectural skills

+ API design experience (authoring and providing feedback) with stakeholders

+ Strong programming experience in Java server side development

+ Experience working at scale and high RPS throughput

+ Familiarity with SQL

+ Outstanding communication, collaboration skills, and a strong ethic of teamwork

+ Quality-first demeanor with a focus on test automation and CI/CD

+ Strong analytical skills

** Preferred Qualifications*
* + Experience working with AI tooling such as Claude Code or Cursor

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Experience with Spinnaker and Kubernetes

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Experience with Spring Web Flux or Reactive programming in Java

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Experience with GraphQL (implementation and integration)

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Experience with gRPC

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Experience with AWS, Terraform

** About Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology*
* We are responsible for developing and operating The Walt Disney Company's direct-to-consumer video businesses globally, including Disney+, ESPN+, and Hulu. Our core mission is to deliver global audiences the freedom to access content on their terms across any connected device, time, or location. We serve consumers by bringing the world's most beloved characters, timeless stories, legendary athletes, and epic sporting events to global audiences through outstanding…