Job Posting Title:

Manager, Software Engineering

Req ID:

10095450

Job Description:

Department/Group Overview:

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology

On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also transforming Disney’s media business for the future. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to maximize flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

A few reasons why we think you’d love working for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology

• Building the future of Disney’s media business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney’s media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
• Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day – from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.
• Innovation: We develop and execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.

The Product & Data Engineering team is responsible for end to end development for Disney’s world-class consumer-facing products, including streaming platforms Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+, and digital products & experiences across ESPN, Marvel, Disney Studios, NatGeo, and ABC News. The team drives innovation at scale for millions of consumers around the world across Apple, Android, Smart TVs, game consoles, and the web, with our platforms powering core experiences like personalization, search, messaging and data.

Job Summary:

Data Experience is a tightly-knit team working within the Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology (DE&E Technology) Data department. We focus on building cutting-edge applications, reducing redundancy, and providing end-to-end solutions that optimize our business processes. While focused on full-stack application development, we often foray into platform connectivity, BI tools, and big-data visualizations.

As the business moves toward more data-driven decision making, the ability to access data easily becomes very important. In turn, we work closely with Data Science, Marketing, and Personalization teams to create one-of-a-kind applications that enable The Walt Disney Company to reach new heights of customer outreach and conversion. While we use known technologies to speed our development process, we also contribute to and push enterprise design and productivity through our innovative partnerships.

Using your skills and experience in full-stack development, you will join a fun team of technically capable individuals that pride themselves on delivering the highest quality product.  Most of our applications are written in a NodeJS/Typescript/React stack, but we are able to cover many languages and frameworks with our breadth of experience.  In this role, you will focus on our Near-Real-Time reporting and visualizations platform. The work is fun and challenging, and we are often asked to break new ground in terms of user experience and application functionality.

Join our small-but-mighty team in DE&E Technology and be a part of the magic!

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Full-stack application development using NodeJS/Express/React Typescript stack - Creation, maintenance, and support of a Near-Real-Time reporting and visualization platform from API-layer outward
• Planning discussions, team interactions, creating feature proposals
• Broader platform team discussions, interactions and initiatives, including supporting a broad platform of associated tooling through on-call rotation
• Collaborate on architectural designs and help plan for maintainability, observability, and future development concerns
• Ensure high operational efficiency and quality of your solutions to meet SLAs and support commitment to our customers
• Be an active participant and advocate of agile/scrum practice to ensure health and process improvements for your team
• Write code that is concise, optimized, and well-tested
• Write documentation for platform, functionality, or processes to augment knowledge transfer
• Review teammate’s code and pull requests for overall quality, standards alignment, and test coverage
• Support the strategic analysis of existing technologies, future projects, and execution options

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience with full-stack application development
• 5+ years of experience with high-test coverage delivery using unit and front-end test frameworks
• 3+ years of experience implementing visualization libraries (D3, for example)
• Proficient in application development using NodeJS, React, TypeScript, JavaScript
• Experience with application builds in an infrastructure-as-code system (Terraform, Kubernetes, Cloud Formation, etc.)
• Experience with development in a CI/CD environment
• Experience with performance tuning for large-data-set front-end/visualizations

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience programming in Java
• Experience collaborating with shared React component library, developing applications in cloud platforms (e.g. AWS), and working with Agile methodologies
• Experience building APIs
• Experience with Kafka, Amazon SQS, or Kinesis
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Spinnaker, and continuous integration/delivery systems
• Experience developing mocking mechanisms for tests
   

Required Education  

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field, or equivalent work experience

The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, California is $164,492 to $220,600 per year, in Bristol, Connecticut is $164,492 to $220,600 per year in Seattle, Washington is $172,282 to $231,110 per year, in New York City, NY is $172,282 to $231,110 per year, and in San Francisco, California is $180,154 to $241,670 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

Job Posting Segment:

Product & Data Engineering

Job Posting Primary Business:

PDE - Data Platform Engineering

Primary Job Posting Category:

Software Engineer

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Santa Monica, CA, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

USA - CA - Market St, USA - CT - ESPN North Campus - 383 Middle St, USA - NY - 1211 Avenue of the Americas, USA - WA - 925 4th Ave

Date Posted:

2024-07-29