Lead Software Engineer

Overview

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 our 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 enhance 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 here:

• Building the future of Disney’s media: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power our 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 implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology is looking for a Lead Software Engineer, Tech Lead to join the API Fraud Services team within the Engineering Services organization.

The API Fraud Services team is responsible for high throughput services that analyze API traffic in real time with the dual mandate of allowing legitimate customers to access and use the services they have paid for, while protecting users and the company from various types of fraud.

Qualifications

• You have experience mentoring and coaching more junior engineers on both technical and soft skills.

• You are comfortable leading interview processes for all levels of software development.

• You work diligently with stakeholders such as project and product management to identify requirements, and provide technical solutions and direction.

• You lead with empathy, work to create a strong engineering culture, and you are mindful of the importance of diversity and inclusion.

• You are comfortable with ambiguity and leading conversations where discordant views are present.

• Responsible for the Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery of the applications, ensuring sufficient code-quality, testing and zero downtime deployment.

• Ensure that an application is highly available and scaled to support the required traffic levels and SLAs.

• Provide technical review and expert advice on new application development within the API Fraud Services ecosystem

• Technologies include Scala, Python, Apache Flink, Spark, Databricks and AWS (ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, WAF, among others). Experience in these areas is preferred but not required.

• ML experience, or experience working with ML teams, is highly preferred, but not required.

• Excellent understanding of software development fundamentals and architecture

• Knowledge/experience with web technologies and web systems architecture

• Technical responsibility for the codebase to ensure consistency and correctness. Ensure code contributions from the team are of sufficient quality and functionally accurate. Provide reviews of code submitted into the application.

Required Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer Science or related field, or equivalent training or work experience

• 7+ years of experience in a technical field.

The hiring range for this position in California or New York is $149,300 to $200,200 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.