Hybrid Senior Manager, Software Engineering – Streaming Backend Quality

at The Walt Disney Company

• Job title: Senior Manager, Software Engineering – Streaming Backend Quality
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $184,300 - $247,100 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, SDLC
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Santa Monica, United States

About the role

• Senior Manager overseeing software engineering quality for Disney's streaming services. Managing agile teams to develop automation and quality processes for backend APIs and systems.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple agile globally distributed teams of full-time and contracted engineers.
• Set and manage team expectations and OKRs.
• Report on project and team progress to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Collaborate with product, program, engineering, and operations on the quality delivery of supported products.
• Drive the planning, design and implementation of both short-term and long-term projects.
• Support budget and resource planning needs.
• Successfully analyze and resolve complex problems, leading and coordinating across both internal and external teams & stakeholders.
• Mentor and guide managers, leaders and senior engineers.
• Guide and direct a cohesive technical direction for the teams, supporting and performing code and architecture reviews when needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer and/or Electrical Engineering, or comparable field of study and/or equivalent years of work experience
• 10+ years of progressive experience in software development or automated testing.
• 3+ years of management or people leadership experience.
• Expertise in at least one of the following programming languages: Node/JavaScript, Java, Python.
• Experience with system and unit testing frameworks, SDLC tools such as Jira and Confluence, version control systems (e.g. Git), and CI/CD tools and pipelines.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Highly skilled in project management practices, leading quality teams, mentoring people and technology leaders, and setting technical direction.
• Organized, detail-oriented and able to deliver project tasks on time.
• Highly motivated, self-starting individual with strong verbal and written communication skills who can successfully communicate up, down, and across.

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.