Sr Software Engineer - Business Operations

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

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 thinkyou’dlove 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 industrynorms, andsolve complex and distinctive technical problems.

The Business Operations team helps guide and articulate technology strategy and research, andis responsible for driving the day-to-day operation of the Product & Technology organization, including: project and portfolio management and tracking; organization-level capital, space, and resource management and allocation;process management; technical incident management; and our administrative and workplace experience support team.

Job Summary:

Join our Business Operations engineering team as a Senior Software Engineer and become a core driver of organizational efficiency. You will play a key role in the development, maintenance, and enhancement of our critical application portfolio.

In this role, you will leverage your deep technical expertise to deliver immediate impact, owning the end-to-end development of complex, medium-to-large-scale features and resolving high-priority system defects. You will act as a go-to technical authority, actively mentoring peers, defining and championing engineering best practices, and contributing to architectural decision-making.

Success in this role requires clear communication and strong technical leadership to collaborate effectively with cross-functional roles like Product Management, QA, and Infrastructure Engineering, ensuring cross team alignment and high-quality, efficient software solutions.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

Technical Leadership & Expertise

• Own the design, development, and successful deployment of medium-to-large size software solutions, ensuring performance, quality, scalability, and security.

• Drive software engineering best practices, including design, code quality, security and testability within the team.

• Exhibit deep and broad technical expertise, with hands-on proficiency in key functional/specialty areas.

• Serve as a primary technical resource for the team, offering guidance on technical issues and new feature development.

Execution & Impact

• Solve complex technical problems with an innovative and experimental can-do attitude grounded by advanced technical skill and technique.

• Conduct thorough code reviews, focusing on requirements, design and coding standards, readability, testability, and optimization.

• Mentor and guide the work of less experienced engineers to develop solutions.

• Identify opportunities and recommend the development or implementation of solutions to improve products or processes with each iteration.

• Document technical details for assigned features, fixes, and projects.

Autonomy & Influence

• Work independently with minimal guidance, applying judgment in selecting methods and techniques to…