Lead Software Engineer; Back End), Ad Platforms

Position: Lead Software Engineer (Back End), Ad Platforms

Lead Software Engineer (Back End), Ad Platforms

About Disney Entertainment and ESPNിക്കുക Product & Technology (DEEP&T)

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 mines 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 শেষে 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.

Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:

• Building the future of Disney’s media:
  Our technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
• Reach, Scale & Impact:
  More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans’ connections with the company’s brands and stories:
  Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, ABC, ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally.
• Innovation: коэффици we develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

The Ad platform engineering organization within the Disney Entertainment / ESPN Product & Technology organization is fully responsible for building, enhancing, and maintaining the high‑performance, distributed, micro‑service‑based, cutting‑edge digital advertising platform. The platform enables the configuration, qualification, delivery, and tracking of digital advertisements globally across Disney video‑on‑demand and Live TV properties, including Hulu, Disney+, ESPN, and सार.

As part of ad platform engineering, the programmatic teams build and maintain Disney’s programmatic advertising suite of products and services that comprise Disney’s Real‑time Ad Exchange (DRAX).

DRAX is an award‑winning, in‑house SSP that enables the configuration of programmatic deals and integrates programmatic demand from multiple third‑party sources into ഉയ the Disney ad server in real time.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will apply your deep technical knowledge and skills to help us deliver scalable, perform‑ant, maintainable, loosely coupled, encapsulated, and testable software.

Daily, you should bring:

• A willingness and desire to effectively communicate and collaborate across teams and systems
• Demonstrated project ownership
• Guidance and mentorship on system and API design, as well as implementation best practices such as microservice encapsulation and loose coupling
• A passion for mentoring, learning, and adapting to a very dynamic and fast‑paced environment
• A proven ability to work with product teams to translate requirements into well‑defined technical implementations, and the ability to define technical and operational metrics to measure system health
• A keen eye for potential optimizations and enhancements
• Kindness and pragmatic optimism
• A deep understanding of Java and the Software Development Lifecycle

Responsibilities:

• Holistic understanding of the team’s domain and serving as a point of contact for stakeholders
• Leading by example, supporting peers, and striving to improve code and design toward more scalable, clean, and dec.shader implementations
• Facilitating discussions and driving resolution, making sure outcomes are clear and well‑communicated
• Designing, implementing, and testing solutions to various engineering problems in a high‑throughput, low‑latency microservices environment
• Understanding and use of automated tools (AI) while adhering to company policy
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• Reading and understanding product user stories , translating them into actionable tasks, and leading the team through their…