Senior Software Engineer - Android

Job Title

Senior Software Engineer – Android

The Walt Disney Company

New York, NY

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Engineering and Information Technology

Entertainment Providers

Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally. The team marries technology with creativity to build world‑class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses.

We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.

Disney's Media Engineering Android team is seeking an experienced Software Engineer who is excited to build apps enjoyed by millions around the world. You will be building scalable, elegant solutions for all of Disney’s Android applications that stream video across a wide array of devices including phones, tablets, and TVs. Our highly collaborative group works in tandem with many cross‑functional teams.

We value pristine communication skills, both written and verbal, as well as a bias for action. We are incredibly invested in maintaining high code quality standards with unit tests, automated tests, modern libraries, and a Kotlin codebase. We strive to build the best Live and video‑on‑demand (VOD) applications in the world, and we look forward to hearing more about your skills and how they can help us achieve this lofty goal.

• Develop an understanding of the DE&ET software stack and specifically the Media
  
  X component.
• Maintain and update the Android variant of the Disney Media Player.
• Understand the internals of Android and how to debug and diagnose Android Device issues.
• Collaborate with application development teams, services engineering teams and product management to help understand and explain device limitations and requirements.
• Ensure that the latest audio and video standards like Dolby Vision, Dolby ATMOS, DTS:
  
  X, HDR
  10+, and more are delivered with full fidelity.
• Develop, debug, test and benchmark various components in the software stack.
• Perform online code reviews of pull requests.
• Gather additional requirements and spec missing functionality required across various functional teams.
• Create and update documentation across the entire software development lifecycle as needed.
• Maintain a strong understanding of our code to identify, research and address issues.
• Contribute to strategies that ensure the quality and stability of our deployments, including testing strategies and telemetry approaches.
• Help to develop our project’s build system and continuous integration system as needed.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of production experience with Kotlin and the Android SDK.
• Proficiency with Reactive Programming and Dependency Injection.
• Well‑versed in different architectural patterns (MVI/MVVM or equivalent).
• Pristine communication skills who can collaborate well across teams.
• You write phenomenal code, tests, and documentation.
• Experience resolving production issues ideally on a large scale.

• Comfortable using common Android libraries such as Dagger 2 / Hilt, RxJava2, Groupie.
• Familiarity with Android TV / Amazon Fire TV development.
• Experience with streaming video, codecs, and DRM.
• Knowledgeable about maintaining a large, modularized codebase.
• Experience using performance evaluation tools such as Android Profiler.

$148,700 – $199,400 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and 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.