Job Summary:

DMED Technology creates products, platforms, and innovations for the DMED Segment and the Walt Disney Company by driving the strategic development and use of technology, building scalable systems and products to empower our businesses and engage consumers. With global scale, local presence, and deep technological excellence, DMED Technology helps DMED and The Walt Disney Company optimize technology, platforms, and resources, bring creative ideas to life and create industry-shaping approaches.
As part of the Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution’s (DMED) technology team, you’ll be joining a group of passionate, dedicated technologists solving a range of interesting problems in innovative ways in an exciting and dynamic industry. We are looking for high-performing and motivated individuals who challenge the status quo and drive software innovation!
Our team is looking for an experienced software engineering manager to lead one of our product platform teams, which are responsible for building and operating the services that power experiences across many of Disney’s most recognized brands, including ABC, Marvel, National Geographic and ESPN. This role will specifically be focused on our multi-tenant distribution platforms, which ensure that core content, presentational and personalized data are all efficiently distributed to our many product experiences using modern API technology. If you have a passion for technology and coaching engineers as they deliver major projects, this may be the role for you!

Responsibilities:

You will lead a team and help architect, build and maintain features for backend distribution services that power a diverse collection of products and implement them in partnership with our product team. You’ll be expected to deliver quickly and iteratively in an agile environment while providing mentorship and leadership to your team members as they build a world class platform supporting many of Disney’s premier brands.
You’ll make a great fit for our team if you like to do these things:
● Manage a mixed team of full time and contracted engineers working remotely
● Collaborate with product managers and fellow engineers in the design and implementation of systems delivering high throughput personalized experiences
● Drive the planning, design, and implementation of both short term projects and long term infrastructure initiatives
● Interface with a variety of stakeholders to define requirements and project timelines
● Efficiently operate mission-critical cloud-based services, with an emphasis in reliability, security, and performance
● 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
● Perform code reviews and guide the technical direction of the team
● Help with full-stack development when needed
● Research and experiment with the latest and greatest technologies to identify, evangelize, and apply them to current and future projects

Basic Qualifications:● 8+ years of relevant industry experience
● Demonstrated ability to oversee and manage the deployment/operations of complex web service tiers and persistence layers
● Can lead a small team of software engineers, providing mentorship and setting technical direction
● Excellent programming skills and strong knowledge of the Java platform and Java web applications and frameworks (Spring/Tomcat/etc)
● Deep understanding of web architecture including HTTP, caching and API delivery paradigms (REST, GraphQL)
● Strong understanding of both relational and NoSQL Persistence stores and the ability to determine which is the right tool for the job
● Experience with developing for public clouds like Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS)
● Knowledge of authentication & authorization systems such as OAuth, Token Auth or LDAP
● Experience with full software development lifecycle and common best practices like unit testing, collaborative version control flows, and continuous integration
● Proven ability to work on a diverse scope of software and database projects requiring detailed analysis and creative/practical problem solving
● Strong analytical skills and capabilities for resolving a wide range of issues in innovative ways
● Self-starter with an interest in industry trends and a passion for innovation and raising the bar
Preferred Qualifications:● Proven experience developing, monitoring, and maintaining high-volume and highly-available distributed systems
● Demonstrated ability to recruit and manage technical teams, including performance management
● Experience with real-time messaging frameworks, such as Kafka or AWS Messaging services
● Hands-on experience performing DevOps duties and developing infrastructure as code (Jenkins, TeamCity, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Kubernetes)
● Natural leader with the ability to organize, energize, and influence others
Required Education

• Degree in Computer Science or related field, and/or equivalent work experience