About the Role & Team
At The Walt Disney Company we’re responsible for building what aims to be the largest media streaming platform in the world, serving not just Disney+, but ESPN+, Star+, and Hulu. We foster innovation, we challenge each other, and we put our users before all else: connecting them with the stories they love.
We’re looking for people who want to challenge themselves, to grow; people who understand scale and care deeply about reliability. You will be surrounded by colleagues eager to help you succeed and be part of an ambitious, rewarding culture.
This new position sits within one of Disney’s Service Engineering teams, supporting a variety of backend API services that directly support the Disney+ platform as part of the Growth and Commerce organisation. Contribute to dynamic, autonomous and self-motivated software teams that own the full development, delivery and operational support responsibilities of critical global services.
Our Engineering Teams are advocates of functional programming, so you can expect to join a team that’s applying principles from FP to build these services: using Scala, Cats, ZIO, FS2, and Cats Effect.
What You Will Do
- Be part of an Agile team building the world's fastest growing media streaming platform
- Contribute to an inclusive culture that values learning & development, close collaboration between team members, and strives for excellence
- Leverage, learn and apply cutting edge technologies on challenging and varied business domains
- Develop your technical understanding to support and build your career
- Have the opportunity to contribute to our open source or blog communities
- Apply principled engineering practices including unit testing, integration testing, and continuous integration
- Lead a significant part of the implementation, design, testing, and deployment of services within your team
- Act as a mentor and an example to others in your team and across the organisation
Required Qualifications & Skills
- Demonstrable understanding of high-quality coding, testing, and development practices
- Experience working in a “Devops” environment
- Experience or interest in functional programming and its real-world applications particularly Scala stacks such as Scalaz, Cats Effect and ZIO
- Experience of designing, building & operating distributed systems with multi-level failover & fallback strategies
- Relational and NoSQL databases, particularly PostgreSQL, Aurora, & DynamoDB with experience modelling & optimising query performance
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience mentoring and coaching more junior engineers on both technical and soft skills
- Experience with Cloud Infrastructure, preferably with AWS
- Experience building micro/web services - including REST and GraphQL
- Kinesis or any other streaming data
The Perks
- 25 days annual leave
- Private medical insurance & dental care
- Free Park Entry: You will have the opportunity to enter any of our parks with your family and friends for free
- Disney Discounts: you are entitled to discounts on designated Disney products, resort F&B and ticketing
- Excellent parental and guardian leave
- Employee Resource Groups – WOMEN @ Disney, Disney DIVERSITY, Disney PRIDE, ENABLED, and our Mental Health & Wellbeing Group, TRUST.
The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, and where all can thrive and belong. Disney is committed to forming a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.
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