Sr Software Engineer – Ad Platform
| Company | The Walt Disney Company |
|---|---|
| Location | Seattle, WA, USA, San Francisco, CA, USA, Glendale, CA, USA |
| Salary | $138900 – $203900 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, or another technical field
- Have 5+ years of experience in web application development or software engineering in a large enterprise environment using Java, including familiarity with modern frameworks and platforms (e.g., Spring, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka)
- Be able to demonstrate significant experience working with relational databases, SQL and newer NoSQL data stores as well as event streaming platforms
- Have a strong interest in open source technology
- Possess good communication skills and enjoy mentoring and helping others to succeed as a team
- Care about your craft and have opinions about the “right” way to do things with technology
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with leads and influence software architectures which are robust, fault-tolerant, and cloud-native
- Possess AWS managed service solution design and implementation experience
- Reason logically and creatively, identifying problems, drawing valid conclusions from the data available, and develop effective solutions while applying creative thinking in the design and development of high performing web applications
- Collaborate with fellow senior engineers to keep the team’s technology radar and architecture principles aligned to the industry and needs of our users
- Lead code reviews and provide leadership and direction to junior engineers
- Deliver multiple projects utilizing an Agile methodology
- Take a high ownership, self-sufficient, hands-on position on the team to lead and drive quality, maintain application stability
- Write complex programs, analyze code changes and suggest improvements
- Check-in valuable, clean code on a daily basis that adds new features and capabilities
- Create reference implementations for the purpose of mentoring and leading more junior staff (when required)
- Help define engineering standards and provide technical mentorship to the team
- Investigate and resolve any production issues from end user (UI) to persistence layer and work to prevent them
- Work with product managers and managers to ensure that all project deliverables are on time and high quality
- Work collaboratively with other service teams
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related technical discipline is highly desirable
- Previous work experience in advertising or creative, design workflow applications
- Experience working with vendor teams to deliver high quality results
- Knowledge of performance testing and application profiling
- Strong curiosity about how Disney delivers the Magic and a desire to be a part of it