Software EngineerTechnology 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.As a Software Engineer, you will join Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology's Growth & Commerce Platform Growth Life Orchestration Team.
Disney has been investing tremendously in modernizing its platform by developing a platform layer that exposes the commerce system's capabilities to our front-end device clients (Web, mobile, living room devices) and our service partners like the customer service platform. The team's primary objective is to abstract away the core commerce domains from client teams and centralize all of the Growth & Commerce Platform capabilities into one shared layer. Another objective of the team is to decouple these core commerce systems to allow for faster feature delivery.ResponsibilitiesWork alongside the Product and Business teams to understand the business implications and user flows for sign-up and user account management.Contribute to designs and develop a future proof API layer that exposes the commerce lifecycle platform capabilities to various clients.Review and develop robust API contracts and scalable microservices for internal clients.Assist in creating technical proposals to illustrate the high-level design and system flow between clients and backend systems.Understand key dependencies such as the core subscription, billing, and payment systems and how they will affect clients.Contribute to the end-to-end software development lifecycle for our systems: conceptualize, design, build, code review, test, load test, launch, and measure performance.Collaborate with the Product team to translate requirements into well-defined technical implementation.Basic QualificationsBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experienceMinimum of 5 years of related work experienceStrong code design and architectural skillsAPI design experience (authoring and providing feedback) with stakeholdersStrong programming experience in Java server side developmentExperience working at scale and high RPS throughputFamiliarity with SQLOutstanding communication, collaboration skills, and a strong ethic of teamworkQuality-first demeanor with a focus on test automation and CI/CDStrong analytical skillsPreferred QualificationsExperience working with AI tooling such as Claude Code or CursorExperience with Spinnaker and KubernetesExperience with Spring WebFlux or Reactive programming in JavaExperience with GraphQL (implementation and integration)Experience with gRPCExperience with AWS, Terraform