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Technology is at the heart of Disneys past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disneys media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Companys media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.

Here are a few reasons why we think youd love working here:

Building the future of Disneys media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come. Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disneys technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the companys brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC Newsand many more. These products and brands and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry matter to millions of people globally. Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Ad Platforms is responsible for Disneys industry-leading ad technology and products driving advertising performance, innovation, and value in Disneys sports, news, and entertainment content, across all media platforms.

The Ad Serving Engineering organization within Disney Entertainment and the ESPN organization is fully responsible for building, enhancing and maintaining the high-performance, distributed, microservice-based Digital Advertising Platform. The platform is charged with the qualification, delivery, and tracking of Digital Advertising campaigns (Video on Demand, Live TV, and innovative interactive ads) across all of Disney online properties, including Hulu, Disney+, and ESPN+.

In addition, Ad Serving teams collaborate in the development of supporting components, such as anti-ad fatigue systems, impression counting pipelines, and ad experience flows. We also work on integrations with critical services responsible for the entitlements, correct pacing, targeting, selection of ads, and third-party systems.

As part of the Decisioning Fleet, you will get to own the services that decide what ad will fill the slot for ad breaks across Hulu, Disney+, ESPN, and others. You will directly contribute to optimizing ad qualification and selection to make sure viewers always see the right ad at the right time.

As a Lead Software Engineer (non-manager), you will apply your deep technical knowledge and skills to help us deliver scalable, performant, maintainable, loosely coupled, encapsulated, and testable software.

Daily, You Should Bring

A willingness and desire to effectively communicate and collaborate across teams and systems. Demonstrated project ownership. System and API design, and implementation best practices to guide and mentor, for example, micro-service encapsulation and loose coupling. A passion for mentoring, learning, and adapting to a very dynamic and fast-paced environment. A proven ability to work with product teams to translate requirements into well-defined technical implementations, as well as the ability to define technical and operational metrics to measure system health. A keen eye for potential optimizations and enhancements. Kindness and pragmatic optimism. A deep understanding of Java and the Software Development Lifecycle.

Responsibilities

Holistic understanding of the teams domain and serving as a point of contact for stakeholders. Leading by example, supporting their peers, and striving to improve code and design towards more scalable, clean, and decoupled implementations. Facilitate discussions and drive resolution, making sure outcomes are clear and well-communicated. Designing, implementing, and testing solutions to various engineering problems in a high-throughput, low-latency microservices environment. Understanding and use of automated tools (AI) while adhering to company policy. Reading and understanding product user stories, translating them into actionable tasks, and leading the team through their execution. Enhancing systems observability with proper metrics, monitors, and alerts. Available for On-Call rotations based on the teams escalation policy and support schedule.

Basic Qualifications

BS or MS in Computer Science / Engineering or relevant work experience. 7+ years of software engineering experience. Advanced proficiency with Java, including but not limited to understanding memory management, multi-threading, profiling, thread pools, connection pools, and HTTP protocols. Demonstrable analytical / problem-solving skills. Great communication, collaboration skills, and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical audiences. Experience with: SpringBoot and related Spring projects. Non-relational database technologies like DynamoDB. Caching datastores such as Redis, ValKey, or MemCache. Data Streaming Mechanisms such as Apache Kafka and/or Kinesis. Cloud platforms such as AWS. Modern DevOps tools such as Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes. Microservice architecture.

Preferred Qualifications

Domain knowledge in the Ad Tech industry.

Additional Information

This will be an on-site role (4 days/week)

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