Software Engineer II - Ad Platform, Integrating Engineering

About the Team

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.

We marry technology with creativity to build world‑class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses.

As a Software Engineer, you will use your deep Java, scripting, Dev Ops, and data persistence skills to write and test code that delivers new features for our application portfolio. You will be an important part of a motivated team where you’ll collaborate to drive application architecture, code quality, and ensure we are building the right things for our users. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of experience designing and architecting highly scalable, secure, performant, and usable web applications using Java/Java EE, and deep skills in Java, Spring, RESTful Web Services, Docker, Kubernetes, and persistence & data streaming technologies such as MySQL, Oracle, Cassandra, Redis, and Kafka.

• Collaborate with leads and influence software architecture and design to ensure high‑quality work that aligns with the organization’s strategy.
• Design, develop, maintain, test, and operate Integration API services written primarily in Java.
• Develop secure and highly performant integration services and APIs.
• Collaborate with technical teams to deliver quality software and maintain code quality.
• Engage with product and technology leaders to translate requirement needs into executable solutions.
• Check in valuable, clean code on a daily basis that adds new features and capabilities.
• Create reference implementations for mentoring and leading junior staff when required.
• Help define engineering best practices.
• Investigate and resolve production issues from end user to service layer and prevent recurrence.
• Design and build multithreaded, distributed systems.

• Kafka – asynchronous and event‑driven architectures
• Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud – application development
• Kubernetes and Docker – container orchestration and scheduling
• AWS – core infrastructure
• Observability platforms for monitoring, alerting, logging, and metering

• Hold a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, or another technical field.
• Have 3+ years of experience in integration tools, technologies, and software using Java, Spring, Kafka, workflow orchestration, decision rules, API gateway, service mesh, event‑driven & API‑based microservices.
• Have a strong interest in integration and open‑source technologies.
• Strong knowledge of integration architectures, best practices, tools, techniques, and platforms.
• Have some previous experience leading teams across multiple locations and vendors.

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline is highly desirable.
• Experience with vibe coding and AI tools.
• Previous work experience in integration applications, products, and platforms.
• Experience working with vendor teams to deliver high‑quality results.
• Knowledge of performance testing and application profiling (Gatling, JProfiler).
• Strong curiosity about how Disney delivers the Magic and a desire to be a part of it.

The hiring range for this position in New York, NY is $120,300 – $161,300. Base pay will take into account internal equity and may vary by geographic region, knowledge, skills, and experience. A bonus and/or long‑term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to full‑range medical, financial, and other benefits.

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