Hybrid Lead Software Engineer – Back End, Java

at The Walt Disney Company

• Job title: Lead Software Engineer – Back End, Java
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $155,700 - $218,700 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Grafana, Java, Jenkins, Kotlin, Redis, Scala
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Santa Monica, United States

About the role

• Tech Lead Software Engineer collaborating on engineering solutions for Disney’s media and technology divisions. Leading projects and mentoring engineers in designing and executing backend solutions.

Responsibilities

• Actively participate in daily stand-ups and other scrum ceremonies.
• Design new solutions and drive alignment across engineering and product teams.
• Expertly break down work at the epic level, setting project milestones with reasonable deadlines.
• Prioritize work within a project to deliver on the most necessary or urgent requirements.
• Anticipate and mitigate risk on projects.
• Effectively communicate with stakeholders on project progress.
• Write code to implement new features or optimize existing services.
• Determine the most efficient means to sufficiently test new code: unit tests, integration tests, performance tests, etc.
• Set best practices for the team for on-call responsibilities such as deployments, monitoring, and investigating incidents.
• Use logs, monitoring tools, and work with developers to determine root causes across distributed components.
• Perform code reviews for members of the team, bearing a sense of responsibility for approved code.
• Coach and mentor teammates in an open, respectful, flexible, empathetic manner.
• Help onboard new team members.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
• 7+ years of related experience crafting and operating large-scale, high-availability backend services.
• Experience crafting and operating JVM services (such as Java, Scala, Kotlin).
• Proven track record of designing and driving consensus on backend architectures.
• Deep understanding of and experience using caching technologies (such as Redis, Memcached, EHcache).
• Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, databases, etc).
• Strong understanding of design patterns and principles.
• Experience with asynchronous programming.
• Experience with object-oriented programming patterns.
• Experience with functional programming patterns.
• Experience using source control systems and CI/CD pipelines (such as git, Github, Jenkins).
• Experience with AGILE/Scrum practices.
• Skilled at work breakdown and task estimation.
• 1+ years practicing operational best practices for service maintenance.
• Experience deploying and scaling within a cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with observability tools for metrics, logging, and monitoring (such as Datadog, Grafana).
• Strong communication skills and a desire to share your knowledge with team members and others across Disney Streaming.

Benefits

• 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.