Software Engineer II - Ad Platform, Integrating Engineering

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. The team marries technology with creativity to build world‑class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. 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 Software Engineer, you will use your deep Java, scripting, DevOps, and data persistence skills to write and test code that delivers new features for our application portfolio. You will help drive application architecture, code quality, and ensure we are building the right things for our users. We seek an engineer with 3+ years of experience designing and architecting highly scalable, secure, and performant web applications using Java/JavaEE, server‑side technology (Java, Spring, RESTful Web Services), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and persistence/data streaming technologies (MySQL, Oracle, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka). Responsibilities and Duties of the Role Collaborate with leads and influence software architecture and design to ensure high quality work that aligns with engineering strategy. Collaborate on the design, development, maintenance, testing strategy, and operations of integration API services written primarily in Java. Develop secure and highly performant integration services and APIs. Collaborate with and influence technical teams to deliver quality software and ensure maintainability and code quality. Engage with product and technology leaders to understand and translate requirement needs into executable solutions. Check‑in valuable, clean code daily that adds new features and capabilities. Create reference implementations for mentoring and leading junior staff when required. Help define engineering best practices. Investigate and resolve production issues from end user (UI) to service layer and work to prevent them. Strong experience in designing and building multithreaded, distributed systems. Tools and Technologies Kafka for asynchronous and event‑driven architectures. Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud for application development. Kubernetes and Docker for scheduling and running services. AWS for most infrastructure. Observability platforms for monitoring, alerting, logging, and metering. Multiple physical datacenter sites to connect to third‑party systems. Required Education, Experience, & Skills Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, or another technical field. Have 3+ years of experience in integration tools and technologies using Java, Spring, Kafka, workflow orchestration, decision rules, API gateway, service mesh, event‑driven and API‑based microservices. Have a strong interest in integration and open‑source technologies. Strong knowledge of integration architectures, best practices, tools, techniques, and platforms. Have some previous experience leading teams across multiple locations and vendors. Preferred Experience, Education, & Skills Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline. Experience in Vibe coding and AI tools. Previous work experience in integration applications, products, and platforms. Experience working with vendor teams to deliver high‑quality results. Knowledge of performance testing and application profiling (Gatling, JProfiler). Strong curiosity about how Disney delivers the Magic and a desire to be a part of it. Benefits Hiring range in NewYork, NY: $120,300 – $161,300. Base pay is influenced by internal equity and may vary by geography, knowledge, skills, and experience. Bonuses, long‑term incentive units, and a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits are potentially offered. Location: NewYork, NY, USA. #J-18808-Ljbffr