Product Software Engineer II

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Product Software Engineer II

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Job Description:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Technology is at the heart of Disneys 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 Disneys media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products enhance storytelling and drive velocity innovation and scalability for our are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Companys media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.

Here are a few reasons why we think youd love working here:

Building the future of Disneys media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media advertising and distribution businesses for years to come.

Reach Scale & Impact: More than ever Disneys technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans connections with the companys brands and stories. Disney. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC Newsand many more. These products and brands and the unmatched stories storytellers and events they carry matter to millions of people globally.

Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering media engineering quality assurance engineering behind personalization commerce lifecycle and identity.

The Fantasy Platform Engineering team builds systems that power games on ESPN including Fantasy League Manager (Fantasy Football Baseball Basketball Hockey) and Prediction Games (Tournament Challenge NFL Pick Em etc) that scales to millions of individual users. As a Product Software Engineer you will help drive the platform forward by delivering efficient back-end code on new and existing features while collaborating directly with stakeholders on the client side and other engineering teams

Were looking for a passionate impactful technical leader 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

• Write efficient reliable and testable codefrom requirements given.
• Design and implement automated code and system tests.
• Review analyze and optimize code for readability reliability and performance.
• Instrument monitor and support live operations of systems your team owns.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues problems and errors encountered across company platforms.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in computer science Information Systems Software Electrical or Electronics Engineering or comparable field of study and/or equivalent work experience.
• 3 years of relevant experience.
• Contribute and review code set standards and work with engineers to ensure product and design specifications are met.
• Test code through various means: unit tests integration tests performance tests etc.
• Maintain a deep understanding of our core systems and how they interact with upstream and downstream dependencies.
• Responsible for fundamental platform performance scalability and resiliency.
• Contribute to cross-functional troubleshooting of complex issues as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Java programming language Spring Framework and Maven dependency management.
• Understanding of API design and distributed web service architecture.
• Expertise with full lifecycle of application development including best practices of unit testing code reviews documentation etc.
• Awareness of dev-ops workflows and related technologies.
• Experience leveraging cloud platform services preferably within AWS.
• Motivated self-starter with the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies. Can effectively articulate complex ideas and influence others through well-reasoned explanations.
• Enjoy working within a team setting of engineers of varying experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skill with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience using modern AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Copilot Cursor or similar) to improve code quality accelerate development and enhance documentation.

#DISNEYTECH

The hiring range for this position in Bristol CT is $117500 to $157500 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidates 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 Engineering

Job Posting Primary Business:

PE - Sports News & Entertainment Tech Enablement

Primary Job Posting Category:

Product Software Engineering

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City State Region Postal Code:

Bristol CT USA

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Required Experience:

IC