Technical Lead Software Engineer
Postuler maintenant Postuler ultérieurement Job ID 10083256 Emplacement Grand Manchester, Royaume-Uni Entreprise Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology Date de publication 02/04/2024Résumé du poste:
At The Walt Disney Company we’re responsible for building what aims to be the largest media streaming platform in the world, serving not just Disney+, but ESPN+, Star+, and Hulu. We foster innovation, we challenge each other, and we put our users before all else: connecting them with the stories they love.
We’re looking for people who want to challenge themselves, to grow; people who understand scale and care deeply about reliability. You will be surrounded by colleagues eager to help you succeed and be part of an ambitious, high-performing, rewarding culture. If this sounds like something for you, read on!
Job Summary
Work within one of Disney’s service engineering teams, supporting a variety of backend API services that directly support the Disney+ platform as part of the Growth and Commerce organisation. Contribute to dynamic, autonomous and self-motivated software teams that own the full development, delivery and operational support responsibilities of critical global services.
Our engineering teams are advocates of functional programming, so you can expect to join a team that’s applying principles from FP to build these services: using Scala, Cats, ZIO, http4s, FS2, and Cats Effect.
The Opportunity & Responsibilities:
- Be part of an Agile team building the world's fastest growing media streaming platform
- Contribute to an inclusive culture that values learning & development, close collaboration between team members, and strives for excellence
- Leverage, learn and apply cutting edge technologies on challenging and varied business domains
- Develop your technical understanding to support and build your career
- Have the opportunity to contribute to our open source or blog communities
- Apply principled engineering practices including unit testing, integration testing, and continuous integration
- Lead a significant part of the implementation, design, testing, and deployment of services within your team
- Act as a mentor and an example to others in your team and across the organisation
The Experience We Require From You:
- 7+ years engineering experience
- Demonstrable understanding of high-quality coding, testing, and development practices
- Experience working in a “Devops” environment
- Experience or interest in functional programming and its real-world applications particularly Scala stacks such as Scalaz, Cats Effect and ZIO
- Experience of designing, building & operating distributed systems with multi-level failover & fallback strategies
- Experience with Cloud Infrastructure, preferably with AWS
- Experience building micro/web services - including REST and GraphQL
- Monitoring and optimising applications, especially those written for the JVM
- Relational and NoSQL databases, particularly PostgreSQL, Aurora, & DynamoDB with experience modelling & optimising query performance
- Kinesis or any other streaming data
- Excellent communication skills, specifically in understanding, framing and simplifying both technical & business requirements
- Comfort with ambiguity and leading conversations where discordant views are present
- Experience mentoring and coaching more junior engineers on both technical and soft skills
- Contributions to the technical community, either through blogs, internal workshops, meetups or conferences
The Perks:
25 days annual leave
Private medical insurance & dental care
Free Park Entry: You will have the opportunity to enter any of our parks with your family and friends for free
Disney Discounts: you are entitled to discounts on designated Disney products, resort F&B and ticketing
Disney+ Subscription
Excellent parental and guardian leave
Employee Resource Groups – WOMEN @ Disney, Disney DIVERSITY, Disney PRIDE, our new disability & neurodiversity focused group - ENABLED, and our Mental Health & Wellbeing Group, TRUST.
The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, and where all can thrive and belong. We are committed to building a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.
Sur Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology:
Disney Entertainment et ESPN Technology (DE&E Technology) constituent l’ossature technologique et le développement de produits pour les deux unités commerciales de Disney dans le domaine des médias, tout en contribuant à maintenir l’entreprise à l’avant-garde de l’innovation, ce qui permet à l’entreprise de tirer continuellement parti de la technologie pour améliorer la narration et la créativité, tout en assurant l’évolutivité, la flexibilité et l’efficacité de ses activités.
Sur The Walt Disney Company:
The Walt Disney Company, ainsi que ses filiales et sociétés affiliées, forme l’une des principales entreprises internationales diversifiées de divertissement familial et de médias. Elle comprend trois secteurs d'activités essentiels : Disney Entertainment, ESPN et Disney Experiences. Depuis ses modestes débuts en tant que studio de dessins animés dans les années 1920 jusqu’à son statut de référence actuel dans le secteur du divertissement, Disney poursuit fièrement sa tradition de création d’histoires et d’expériences exceptionnelles pour tous les membres de la famille. Les histoires, les personnages et les expériences de Disney touchent les consommateurs et les visiteurs du monde entier. À travers nos activités présentes dans plus de 40 pays, nos employés et cast members collaborent pour créer des expériences de divertissement appréciées à la fois au niveau universel et local.
Le poste est rattaché à The Walt Disney Company Limited , qui fait partie d’une entreprise que nous appelons Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology.
The Walt Disney Company Limited est un employeur qui souscrit au principe d’égalité des chances à l’emploi. Les candidats seront pris en considération pour l’emploi sans tenir compte de l’âge, de la race, de la couleur de peau, de la religion ou des convictions, du sexe, de la nationalité, de l’origine ethnique ou nationale, de l’orientation sexuelle, du changement de sexe, du statut marital ou civil, du handicap, de la grossesse ou de la maternité. Disney favorise une culture commerciale où les idées et décisions de tous et toutes nous aident à grandir, innover, créer les meilleures histoires et être pertinents dans un monde en évolution rapide.