Software Engineer II - Scala

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 theHOL technological foundation and consumer media touch‑points serving millions of people around the world.

• 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, Par and 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:
  We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity.

• You want to help us build a core image manipulation and delivery platform that impacts every fan of our products.

• You’re a curious and efficient engineer who wants to feel empowered to help define the direction of development and work side‑by‑side with some of the brightest minds in our organization.

• You enjoy working with other brilliant engineers in a challenging but supportive environment, learning from others and sharing your expertise with them.

• Design core, backend software components for the Image Service Platform.

• Collaborate withった other Image Service engineers and external engineering teams to evaluate and design appropriate solutions to effectively meet product requirements.

• Build and manage code in AWS using Cloud Formation or Terraform.

• Evaluate new or existing technologies and products for implementation, considering costs, usability, compatibility and scalability.

• Create technical documentation and runbooks for reference and reporting purposes.

• Use a mix of technologies including Scala, Kafka, Kinesis,
  Dynamo
  
  DB, MySQL and an array of AWS native services.

• Collaborate with other team members (including product owners, TPMs, and other stakeholders) to achieve product and business requirements.

• Conduct design and code reviews.

• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources.

• BS, BA, or advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or its equivalent.

• 3+ years of experience building Internet‑scale Scala API or services applications.

• Experience in a Scala or Kotlin application development environment.

• Familiarity with the AWS environment, including ECS (Docker), S3, EC2, Lambda, Cloud Watch.

• Familiarity with infrastructure as code such as Terraform, Cloud Formation.

• Understanding of software development fundamentals.

• Familiarity with writing unit, integration, and functional tests.

• Familiarity integrating with service APIs and/or SDKs.

• Understanding of agile processes software/{team} with version control & project management tools (e.g. Git Hub, SVN, Jira, Basecamp).

• Creative and inventive toko solving.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, and a team-focused approach towards software development.

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• Knowledge of database solutions, Dynamo
  
  DB, MySQL/Aurora, Redis Elasticache, Mongo
  
  DB, Cassandra.

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