Software Engineer I
Software Engineer I
The Walt Disney Company
Santa Monica, CA
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About The Role & Team
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.
Join us at Metadata Authority Engineering, a driving force within the Media Engineering organization, where we fuel the magic of Disney Entertainment and ESPN Technology. Our team is dedicated to crafting, refining, and disseminating content metadata across our platforms with unparalleled precision. Imagine being part of a mission to ensure that every piece of content is not just showcased, but gloriously represented, enhancing the viewer experience across Disney Streaming platforms and beyond. We're not just revolutionizing streaming video; we're reshaping it entirely. We’re changing the world of streaming video and looking for a dedicated Software Engineer to be a key contributor to the team while driving the technical design, implementation, and improvement of services.
What You Will Do
You should be invested in iterative improvement on the software systems, domain stack, and data organization to empower agile and continuous development while maintaining high system availability and reliability. You would use technologies like Springboot/Java, MySQL, Postgres, AWS native resources (Kinesis, DynamoDB, S3, SNS, SQS, etc), and Kafka for backend development and React/Javascript for frontend engineering.
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.
Join us at Metadata Authority Engineering, a driving force within the Media Engineering organization, where we fuel the magic of Disney Entertainment and ESPN Technology. Our team is dedicated to crafting, refining, and disseminating content metadata across our platforms with unparalleled precision. Imagine being part of a mission to ensure that every piece of content is not just showcased, but gloriously represented, enhancing the viewer experience across Disney Streaming platforms and beyond. We're not just revolutionizing streaming video; we're reshaping it entirely. We’re changing the world of streaming video and looking for a dedicated Software Engineer to be a key contributor to the team while driving the technical design, implementation, and improvement of services.
What You Will Do
You should be invested in iterative improvement on the software systems, domain stack, and data organization to empower agile and continuous development while maintaining high system availability and reliability. You would use technologies like Springboot/Java, MySQL, Postgres, AWS native resources (Kinesis, DynamoDB, S3, SNS, SQS, etc), and Kafka for backend development and React/Javascript for frontend engineering.
- Develop, test and launch working features across the full stack including APIs written in Java that are built in a complex microservice architecture.
- Write Python scripts to resolve inconsistent data in our project’s data store by retrieving information from various data sources and utilizing APIs to correct erroneous data entries.
- Incorporate feedback from others on the team to improve code to be more scalable and easy to maintain.
- Gather requirements from engineering managers, product managers, and technical project managers to turn high level requirements into actionable technical plans.
- Independently develop features, seeking assistance when needed to overcome obstacles.
- Own engineering efforts for specific components of the team’s flagship web service.
- Collaborate with other engineers by proposing new approaches to solving problems.
- Experience and proficiency in Java
- Understanding of computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented programming, data structures, and algorithms (hashing, trees, graphs, search, etc.)
- Experience working with relational (SQL-based) and non-relational database (DynamoDB, Elasticache) technologies, and messaging technologies (Kinesis, Kafka, SQS, SNS)
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
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