Lead Product Software Engineer

Overview

Location:

Bristol, Connecticut, United States

Department/Group Overview:
Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

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.

Why you’d love working here: building the future of Disney’s media; reach, scale, impact; innovation.

• Provide technical guidance and evangelize best practices.
• Maintain a deep understanding of core media systems and their interactions with upstream and downstream dependencies.
• Contribute and review code, set standards, and work with engineers to ensure product and design specifications are met.
• Responsible for fundamental platform performance, scalability, and resiliency.
• Partner with stakeholders to refine requirements and propose solutions that span multiple teams.
• Influence and contribute to department technical strategy and planning.
• Provide mentoring to engineers on advanced technical issues.
• Research, learn, and evangelize widespread adoption of new technologies and architecture patterns.
• Lead cross-functional troubleshooting of complex issues as needed.
• Strategic planning and vision focused on experimenting with and deploying new technologies.
• Any other duties needed to help achieve business objectives.

• Proven expertise with architecture and delivery of high‑volume, cached, fault‑tolerant, multi‑threaded scalable systems.
• Deep understanding of async programming models (events, callbacks, etc.).
• Expertise designing APIs and building RESTful services.
• Mastery in Java and experience with multiple open‑source technologies (e.g., Spring, Tomcat, Nginx, Elastic Search, Mongo
  
  DB, Graph
  
  QL).
• Highly knowledgeable in cloud technologies such as AWS EC2, SQS, S3, Lambdas, Dynamo
  
  DB, Elasticsearch, Cloud Formation/Terraform.
• Experience with full lifecycle of application development, including unit testing, code reviews, and documentation.
• Experience with build and deployment technologies such as Jenkins and Docker.
• Motivated self‑starter with the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies; effective at articulating complex ideas and influencing others.
• Strong collaboration in a team setting with engineers of varying experience.
• Strong communication skills and attention to detail.
• 7+ years of relevant industry experience.

• BS Computer Science or related technical discipline or equivalent.

The hiring range for this position in Bristol, CT is $155,700 - $208,700 per year. The base pay offered may vary based on internal equity, geographic region, knowledge, skills, and experience. A bonus and/or long‑term incentive units may be provided, in addition to medical, financial, and other benefits, depending on level and position offered.