Senior Software Engineer-Media Streaming

Company: The Walt Disney Company (Germany) GmbH
Location: Bristol
Posted on: April 1, 2025

Job Description:

Senior Software Engineer-Media StreamingTechnology 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.Job Summary:As a Senior Software Engineer, you will use your skills in coding, DevOps, and data technologies to design, implement, and test scalable solutions that enhance our diverse suite of products and services. You will be an important member of a motivated team that collaborates in a fast-paced environment to drive application architecture, code quality, and ensure we are building the right solutions for our users. You will help build and innovate a world-class content platform to support content delivery for brands such as Disney+, ESPN+, Hulu, ABC, Marvel and National Geographic.While The Walt Disney Company is a large enterprise, the ideal candidate has a proven ability to perform multiple roles and adapt to changing priorities quickly. As a valued technical member of this agile team, you will work closely with other Software Engineers, Systems Engineers, Product Owners, Project Management, and other technical and business stakeholders to plan, design, prototype, develop, test, deploy, and support existing and new workflows geared toward a lean, fast-paced media supply chain. You will collaborate across the DEET organization to create POCs (Proof of Concept), drive automation, and create a service-based architecture in the pursuit of reimagining and pushing the traditional boundaries of media services, asset transport, and modern asset management. This is a unique opportunity for a self-motivated software developer with quality organizational and communication skills, who finds fulfillment in seeing their applications and workflows implemented and utilized by end users, integration partners, and coworkers.Responsibilities:

• Develop, test, & deploy high quality application code
• Provide technical guidance and evangelize best practices
• 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 to problems that span multiple teams
• Maintain a deep understanding of our core systems and how they interact with upstream and downstream dependencies.
• Mentor junior engineers on the teamBasic Qualifications
  • 5 years software engineering experience
  • Motivated self-starter with the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies. Can effectively articulate complex ideas and influence others through well-reasoned explanations
  • Enjoy working within a team setting of engineers of varying experience
  • Strong communication skills and attention to detail
  • Comfortable working in a geographically distributed teamExperience with:
    • Java
    • Spring
    • Common backend technologies (REST APIs, Microservice architectures, async programming)
    • Build and deployment technologies (Docker, Gitlab-CI, Cloudformation)Required Education
      • Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experiencePreferred Qualifications
        • Expertise with full lifecycle of application development, including best practices of unit testing, code reviews, documentation, etc...
        • Expertise with implementing and supporting high volume web systems or large transaction systems in a highly distributed environment
        • Knowledge of performance testing and application profiling
        • Digital and media asset management background
        • Strong curiosity about how Disney delivers the Magic and a desire to be a part of it
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