[Work From Home] Software Engineer I

We're searching for a qualified Software Engineer I! Our Remote office provides a state-of-the-art and comfortable workspace. This position requires a strong and diverse skillset in relevant areas to drive success. We believe in rewarding talent. The total rewards package for this role includes a competitive salary.

 

 

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. The Product & Data Engineering team is responsible for end to end development for Disney's world-class consumer-facing products, including streaming platforms Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+, and digital products & experiences across ESPN, Marvel, Disney Studios, NatGeo, and ABC News. The team drives innovation at scale for millions of consumers around the world across Apple, Android, Smart TVs, game consoles, and the web, with our platforms powering core experiences like personalization, search, messaging and data. What You Will Do As a member of the Experience Delivery - Sports Distribution Team, you will build and support the tools, services and distribution APIs that deliver sports data and content to all our products including the ESPN app, ESPN.com, ESPN Studio shows, among many others. We are looking for a passionate, impactful 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. You'll make a phenomenal addition to our team if you like to do these things: • Collaborate with product managers and fellow engineers in the design and implementation of systems delivering high throughput experiences • Contribute to cross-team architecture discussions • Analyze and resolve complex engineering problems involving high trafficked web and mobile application services and APIs • Work with the team to iteratively improve development practices and processes • Help with full-stack development when needed • Research and experiment with the latest and greatest technologies to identify and apply them to current and future projects • Work with the team to iteratively improve development practices and processes • Contribute to code reviews • Be involved in the requirements' gathering, analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of systems that support or enhance other applications within our environment. • Improve, support, or add functionality to existing systems that handle critical data flows or traffic for our products. • Collaborate & troubleshoot with the rest of the team in the analysis and resolution of hard engineering problems involving high trafficked web application services and API's, including taking part of the on-call rotation. • Think of new ways to help make our data platform more scalable, resilient and reliable and then work across our team to put your ideas into action. Research and learn new technologies • Research and learn new technologies Required Qualifications & Skills • Some experience or knowledge in developing high volume, cached, fault tolerant, multi-threaded scalable systems • Experience with Java and open-source technologies like Spring, Tomcat, MySQL, Kafka, Elastic Search, etc. • Exposure to cloud-based technologies such as AWS EC2, ECS, SQS, S3, Lambda, CloudFormation, etc. • Exposure or knowledge of full lifecycle of application development, including best practices of unit testing, code reviews, documentation, etc. • Strong analytical skills as well as solid capabilities for debugging and troubleshooting. • Good communication skills and attention to detail Education • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience Apply Job!

 

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