Technical Lead Software Engineer

Description:

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