Disney Vacancies – Lead Software Engineer

Job Description:

Disney Streaming encompasses the teams leading the Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+, and Star+ streaming services within the Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution group. We sit at the intersection between entertainment, sports, and technology and seek to connect viewers with the stories they love, while driving the streaming industry forward with consumer-first innovation.

Job Requirements:

• Demonstrable experience working as part of a high performing, collaborative, agile team to deliver significant features / requirements.
• Excellent communication skills, specifically in understanding, framing and simplifying both technical & business requirements.
• Experience mentoring and coaching more junior engineers on both technical and soft skills.
• Experience or strong interest in functional programming and its real-world applications – particularly Scala stacks such as Scalaz, Cats Effect and ZIO.
• Comfort with ambiguity and leading conversations where discordant views are present.
• Broad and deep technical knowledge, throughout the full stack. Deep hands-on expertise with many disparate technologies and architectures.

Qualification & Experience:

• Monitoring and optimising applications written for the JVM.
• An appetite to learn new technologies and a drive for continual improvement.
• Kinesis or any other streaming data.
• A strong understanding of continuous integration and continuous delivery practices.
• Experience of designing, building & operating distributed systems with multi-level failover & fallback strategies.
• Understanding of statistical analysis of data.
• Experience with Cloud Infrastructure, preferably with AWS.
• Experience with or an interest in “DevOps” tooling & infrastructure as code.
• Demonstrable understanding of high-quality coding and testing practices.
• Relational and NoSQL databases, particularly PostgreSQL, Aurora, & DynamoDB with experience modelling & optimising query performance.
• Web services experience: including REST and GraphQL.

Job Details:

Company: The Walt Disney Company

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Application Deadline: N/A

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