Lead Software Engineer

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a Technical Lead Software Engineer to join the Playback Services team. The team builds highly available, high throughput services that deliver high quality content to subscribers. As a Tech Lead, you'll influence performance, reliability, and scalability of core applications, guide architectural decisions, and shape the technical roadmap.

Requirements

• 7+ years related experience designing backend architectures and delivering backend applications in a production environment
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
• Experience building RESTful Services in Scala
• Understanding of async programming models (events, callbacks, async/await) and thread + concurrency
• Understanding of source control concepts and exposure to Git
• Experience with build and deployment technologies such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, and Docker
• Strong grasp of data structures, algorithms, and common design patterns.
• Demonstrated knowledge in building and operating large-scale high availability backend services
• Knowledge of caching technologies
• Proficiency in Cloud Platforms and DevOps Practices
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Self-learner, independent, excellent problem-solving skills

Benefits

• Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
• Bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package