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.
A few reasons why we think you'd love working for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology

• Building the future of Disney's media business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney's media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
• Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day - from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.
• Innovation: We develop and execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.

This role is on our DEET Messaging Platform Engineering team. Our mission is to empower personalized experiences and data that drive engagement, revenue, growth, customer delight and brand trust for all of The Walt Disney Company. Our product, the Unified Messaging Platform, helps us keep our guests informed and engaged with content, experiences and brands as diverse as Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar, ABC, ESPN, and NatGeo.
We are making major enhancements to our multi-region, multi-tenant core messaging platform to enable other Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology engineering teams to build solutions that send messages via email, push notification, SMS and in-app experiences. You can be involved in building a unified messaging platform that will encapsulate the very best of TWDC.
What You Will Do

• Assist in the implementation of tier-1 microservices in JVM languages
• Implement core, backend software components for the Unified Messaging Platform
• Work on tech design for various initiatives and projects as per business needs
• Participate in code and architecture reviews for team members
• Code using primarily Java
• Collaborate with other teams and individuals in a multi-functional environment to realize business requirements, incorporate others' innovations and propagate our best practices
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability and stability of various system resources
• Work with cloud native stack, built on AWS
• Actively participate in Agile methodology and contribute to SCRUM processes such as Sprint Planning, Backlog grooming, Daily Standups, and Retrospectives with the team
• Provide on-call support for critical services on a rotational basis
• Deliver code end-to-end with high quality and a robust architecture
• Ramp up on new domains and technologies

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of 3+ years related work experience
• 3+ years of experience building internet-scale web or services applications
• Experience in a Java and/or alternative JVM application development environments (Scala/Kotlin)
• Familiarity with the AWS environment (awareness of ECS (Docker), S3, EC2, Lambda, CloudWatch)
• Understanding of software development fundamentals
• Familiarity with writing unit, integration and functional tests
• Familiarity with standard CI/CD procedures & tools like Jenkins, Github Actions, Spinnaker
• Familiarity with service APIs and/or SDKs
• Understanding of agile processes, software version control & project management tools (e.g. Github, SVN, Jira, Basecamp)

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge or certification with AWS services, including S3, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, Lambda, CloudWatch
• Familiarity with big data technologies & tools like Spark, Databricks, EMR
• Experience with Relational and NoSQL Databases like Postgres, MySql, DynamoDB, Cassandra
• Familiarity with Terraform or other infrastructure as code tooling
• Experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, high-uptime systems
• Creative and inventive problem solving
• Desire and initiative to mentor other developers

Bonus Skills

• Experience with SES or Salesforce Marketing Cloud
• Familiarity with Serverless technologies
• Experience in Scala, Python

The hiring range for this position in Washington is $118,000 - $158,200 per year and in California is $112,600 - $151,000 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's 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.