Lead Software Engineer

04 Jul 2024

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The Content Catalog Engineering team at Disney Streaming is hiring a Tech Lead to help build and support the authoritative metadata distribution platform for Disney+, Hulu, Star+, and other streaming services. Our systems are part of the pipeline responsible for bringing metadata and artwork for Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, Nat Geo, and Fox content onto our Streaming platform. Our metadata drives nearly every aspect of the user experience in Disney Streaming products.

We have an engineer-driven culture where teams are able to make their own technology choices based on the task at hand, and team members are encouraged to spend some time on professional development taking online courses, learning new technologies, working on open source or side projects, or writing blog posts. Some of the technologies currently used within Content Catalog Engineering include Java, Scala, Kotlin, Python, Javascript, Typescript, SQL, Spring Boot, Docker, and a wide array of AWS services (Lambda, ECS, S3, SQS, Kinesis, etc.).

Responsibilities :
  • Work with a team of engineers building software in a collaborative development proces
  • Build high-performance, stable, scalable systems to be deployed in an enterprise setting
  • Lead high-level architecture discussions and planning sessions
  • Participate in the code review process by providing feedback on pull requests
  • Participate in on-call rotation, supporting systems and services during production incident
  • Provide mentoring and advice for other engineers
  • Collaborate efficiently with product management, technical program management, operations, and other engineering teams to capture requirements, drive implementation, and provide transparency.

Basic Qualifications :
  • 7+ years of experience
  • Proficient in Java and at least one other OOP language such as Kotlin, Scala, Python, Go, JavaScript or TypeScript
  • Experience building RESTful, RPC, or GraphQL services.
  • Understanding of async programming models (events, callbacks, promises, async/await)
  • Experience using source control systems and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Self-learner, independent, excellent problem-solving skills
  • A broad perspective on problem-solving, with the ability to work both independently and collaboratively.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience with Datadog, New Relic or similar application monitoring software
  • Experience deploying and scaling within a cloud infrastructure.
  • Experience directly managing and mentoring a team.
  • Exposure to build and deployment technologies such as Jenkins and Docker

Required Education :
  • BA/BS degree in Computer Science (or related field) or equivalent technical experience

Additional Information :

Location:
  • New York, NY or Remote if willing to work East Coast hours
#DisneyTech

  • ID: #43818325
  • State: New York New york city 10001 New york city USA
  • City: New york city
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2022-07-04
  • Deadline: 2022-09-01
  • Category: Et cetera