Job Summary:

The Messaging Platform at Disney Streaming powers all communications to users across Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+, and Star+. With the volume of users across these streaming applications, our team is uniquely positioned to design, build, and maintain a feature-rich robust platform that scales for high volumes of traffic. Our platform consists of various Java systems fully deployed in AWS across multiple regions, leveraging modern tools and design principles.

Emails, push notifications, in-app messages, and SMS texts originate without our platform to support critical user flows, standard business operations, and marketing/promotional campaigns. At the highest level, our Messaging domain includes message template creation/management, hydrating messages with static and dynamic content per recipient, the delivery of messages, and exposing the lifecycle of each message so that other teams can understand the effectiveness of the communications they trigger through our platform. 

The Messaging East Coast team is looking for an enthusiastic team player to fill our lead engineer role where you will design, build, and maintain systems with other experienced engineers while also mentoring less seasoned engineers on the team. We are a collaborative group that meets challenges with fervor, striving for engineering excellence in a supportive and fun environment. 

Responsibilities

• Leverage your breadth of experience & knowledge to design, document, build, deploy, and maintain stable backend platform features efficiently with little guidance

• Impactful contributions to design discussions, code reviews, and establishing best practices for all stages of the software development life cycle

• Precise and concise communication of technical concepts and designs

• Nurture the technical development of teammates with guidance, design discussions, and pair programming

• Foster a supportive and collaborative environment both within and across teams

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of experience as a software engineer developing various web services backends

• Solid grasp of backend concepts (Synchronous and Event-Driven Architectures, Databases & Caching, High Performance & Scalability, Test Pyramid, CI/CD)

• Strong Java and Object-Oriented programming skills

• Solid grasp of Computer Science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, etc.)

• Ability to own and carry out a project from requirements gathering to design, implementation, and delivery with little guidance

• A drive to collaborate with other engineers: coming to conversations with your own ideas and an openness to input and suggestions

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with a variety of AWS offerings including serverless technologies such as Lambda, DynamoDB, Kinesis, S3, Athena, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, Fargate

• Experience building event-driven systems