Lead Software Engineer

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise with the following business segments: media networks, parks and resorts, studio entertainment, consumer products and interactive media. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished

About Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology

At Disney Corporate you can see how the businesses behind the Company’s powerful brands come together to create the most innovative, far-reaching and admired entertainment company in the world. As a member of a corporate team, you’ll work with world-class leaders driving the strategies that keep The Walt Disney Company at the leading edge of entertainment. See and be seen by other innovative thinkers as you enable the greatest storytellers in the world to create memories for millions of families around the globe.

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology is looking for a Lead Software Engineer, Tech Lead to join the API Fraud Services team within the Engineering Services organization.

The API Fraud Services team is responsible for high throughput services that analyze API traffic in real time with the dual mandate of allowing legitimate customers to access and use the services they have paid for, while protecting users and the company from various types of fraud.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Collaborate with engineering teams to implement a scalable and high-performing full-stack quality solution.

• Design and develop test automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and reporting tools to support the flagship streaming mobile apps D+ and Hulu. Lead development efforts, either independently or by mentoring and guiding a team of junior engineers.

• Continuously identify and pursue opportunities to enhance systems, products, or services with each iteration.

• Manage and coordinate complex tasks, scheduling, status updates, and communication with internal team members and external stakeholders.

• Lead and mentor a small team of engineers, providing in-depth code reviews and technical analysis.

• Technical responsibility for the codebase to ensure consistency and correctness. Ensure code contributions from the team are of sufficient quality and functionally accurate.

• Investigate and resolve framework or environmental issues impacting our services.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent training or work experience.

• 7+ years of experience in a technical field.

• You have experience mentoring and coaching more junior engineers on both technical and soft skills.

• You are comfortable leading interview processes for all levels of software development.

• You work diligently with stakeholders such as project and product management to identify requirements, and provide technical solutions and direction.

• You lead with empathy, work to create a strong engineering culture, and you are mindful of the importance of diversity and inclusion.

• You are comfortable with ambiguity and leading conversations where discordant views are present.

• Responsible for the Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery of the applications, ensuring sufficient code-quality, testing and zero downtime deployment.

• Ensure that an application is highly available and scaled to support the required traffic levels and SLAs.

• Provide technical review and expert advice on new application development within the API Fraud Services ecosystem

• Technologies include Scala, Python, Apache Flink, Spark, Databricks and AWS (ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, WAF, among others).  Experience in these areas is preferred but not required.

• ML experience, or experience working with ML teams, is highly preferred, but not required.

• Excellent understanding of software development fundamentals and architecture.

• Knowledge/experience with web technologies and web systems architecture.

• Technical responsibility for the codebase to ensure consistency and correctness. Ensure code contributions from the team are of sufficient quality and functionally accurate. Provide reviews of code submitted into the application.

The hiring range for this position in New York or Seattle is $159,500 to $213,900 per year, in San Francisco from $166,800 to $223,600, and in Los Angeles is $152,200 to $204,100. 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.