Lead Software Engineer - Ad Platforms

About the position

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology (DEEP&T) is focused on reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences while transforming Disney’s media business. The Lead Software Engineer will be part of the Ad Serving Engineering organization, responsible for building and maintaining a high-performance, distributed, microservice-based Digital Advertising Platform. This platform manages the qualification, delivery, and tracking of Digital Advertising campaigns across all Disney online properties, including Hulu and ESPN+. The role involves collaborating on supporting components and integrating with critical services for ad pacing, targeting, and selection.

Responsibilities

• Writing and reviewing a lot of code and tests
• Available for a weekly-rotating On-Call support schedule
• Reading requirements documentation from Product and translating into implementation tickets, and leading the team through execution
• Defining, reviewing, and documenting software and system designs in a high throughput, low latency microservices environment
• Enhancing systems’ observability with proper metrics, monitors and alerts
• Delegating tasks to team members, when needed

Requirements

• BS or MS in Computer Science / Engineering or relevant work experience
• 7+ years of software engineering experience
• Advanced proficiency with Java, including understanding heap, multi-threading, profiling
• Demonstrable analytical / problem solving skills
• Great communication, collaboration skills and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical audiences

Nice-to-haves

• Comprehensive experience with SpringBoot and related Spring projects
• Non-relational database technologies e.g. DynamoDB, Redis and/or MemCache
• Apache Kafka and/or Kinesis
• AWS or other cloud platform
• Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience in the Ad Tech industry

Benefits

• Medical, financial, and/or other benefits
• Bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package