Senior Software Engineer - Java

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 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.

Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms, including product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, and 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. Our goal is to modernize the platform by developing a layer that exposes the commerce system’s capabilities to front‑end device clients (Web, mobile, living‑room devices) and service partners. The objective is to abstract core commerce domains from client teams and centralize all Growth & Commerce Platform capabilities into one shared layer, while decoupling these core systems for faster feature delivery.

• Work alongside Product and Business teams to understand 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: 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.

• 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.

• Experience working with AI tooling such as Claude Code or Cursor.
• Experience with Spinnaker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Spring Web Flux or Reactive programming in Java.
• Experience with GraphQL (implementation and integration).
• Experience with gRPC.
• Experience with AWS, Terraform.