Job Posting Title:

Senior Software Engineer I

Req ID:

10145485

Job Description:

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.

Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems. Ad Platforms is responsible for Disney’s industry-leading ad technology and products – driving advertising performance, innovation, and value in Disney’s sports, news, and entertainment content, across all media platforms.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a hands-on Senior Software Engineer I with deep expertise in Java, Spring and REST APIs to join our high-performing engineering team. In this role, you will design, development, and delivery of scalable, high-performance web applications and backend services that power critical business functions. While the focus is on backend engineering, we are looking for someone with working knowledge of front-end technologies like JavaScript and ReactJS to effectively troubleshoot and collaborate across the full stack.

You will play a key role in driving engineering excellence, implementing best practices, and ensuring that the solutions we build are robust, maintainable, and aligned with long-term business goals.

Collaborating closely with product managers, UI developers, QA engineers, and DevOps, you will help translating business requirements into elegant technical solutions. You will be responsible for resolving full-stack issues, especially those requiring backend insight but touching frontend components. You will actively support production systems and help maintain system health through logging, monitoring, and optimization.

As a technical leader, you will mentor engineers, set direction on architecture and code quality, and foster a supportive and high-performing team culture. You’ll also help modernize our platforms using containerization, event streaming, and Kubernetes-based deployments.

Looking for a self-motivated engineer who always keep up with latest technology advancements, continuously learn and mentor others.

Having experience with hybrid cloud deployments, observability platforms such as Splunk or Datadog, and legacy system modernization is a strong plus. Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Gitlab and CD/CD Pipelines will help you integrate seamlessly into our engineering workflow. Prior experience working with microservices, private link networking, and Kubernetes will be advantageous.

You’ll play a critical part in driving our technology vision forward and ensuring that we execute across multiple initiatives.

We’re looking for a passionate, impactful, technical engineer who wants to come here to do their very best work and make their mark, add their chapter to the long and storied history of The Walt Disney Company. Someone who holds themselves and their teammates accountable in a professional, collaborative manner. A collaborative technologist who seeks to bring the best out in themselves and those around them. Someone who can provide a fresh perspective and innovative insight to our initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Possess extensive AWS managed services solution design and implementation experience

• Reason logically and creatively, identifying problems, drawing valid conclusions from the data available, and develop effective solutions while applying creative thinking in the design and development of high performing web applications

• Collaborate with fellow senior engineers and QA Engineers to keep the team’s technology radar and architecture principles aligned to the industry and needs of our users

• Deliver multiple projects utilizing an Agile Scrum methodology

• Take ownership, self-sufficient, hands-on position on the team to drive quality, maintain application stability

• Write complex programs, analyze code changes and suggest improvements

• Check-in valuable, clean code on a daily basis that adds new features and capabilities

• Investigate and resolve any production issues from end user (UI) to persistence layer and work to prevent them • Work with product managers and project managers to ensure that all project deliverables are on time and high quality

• Work collaboratively with other service teams

Basic Qualifications:

• Have 5+ years of experience in web application development or software engineering in a large enterprise environment using Java tech stack, including familiarity with modern frameworks and platforms (e.g., Java, Spring, Docker, Kubernetes)

• Be able to demonstrate significant experience working with relational databases, MySQL and newer NoSQL data stores as well as event streaming platforms such as Kafka

• Familiarity with cloud native storage technologies such as AWS S3 storage

• Have a strong interest in open source technology

• Possess good communication skills and enjoy mentoring and helping others to succeed as a team '

• Care about your craft and have opinions about the “right” way to do things with technology

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous work experience in Ad tech applications

• Experience working with vendor teams to deliver high quality results

• Knowledge of performance testing and application profiling

• Strong curiosity about how Disney delivers the Magic and a desire to be a part of it Experience with: • Technology stack includes Java, Spring and REST APIs.

• Data persistence utilizing a mix of relational and NoSQL databases including MySQL, Oracle, and Redis

• Data streaming stack that includes Kafka.

• AWS cloud and cloud native stack such as K8s, Parameter Store, S3 Storage

• Object Oriented Programming fundamentals and in depth understanding of Dependency Injection

• Docker containers orchestrated via EKS

• AWS Lambda

• Performance Testing tools Gatling and JProfiler

• Observably stack that includes Splunk, Datadog and Grafana

Required Education:

• Minimum a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, or another technical field

• Prefer Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related technical discipline is highly desirable

Job Posting Segment:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Job Posting Primary Business:

Ad Platforms

Primary Job Posting Category:

Software Engineer

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Bangalore, India

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2026-03-17