Software Engineer - Data Experience

$118,000 - $158,200/Yr

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology - San Francisco, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

San Francisco, CA

About the position

The position involves full-stack application development within the Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology's Data Experience team. The role focuses on creating innovative applications that enhance user experience and optimize business processes, particularly for Hulu-supporting platforms. The team emphasizes collaboration, quality delivery, and the use of modern technologies to drive data-driven decision-making across Disney's media business.

Responsibilities

• Develop full-stack applications as part of a unified platform and user experience
• Write code that is concise, optimized, and well-tested
• Contribute to team discussions and planning sessions
• Support a broad platform of associated tooling through on-call rotation
• Deliver functional and supportable product as part of an agile development team
• Work with design and test teammates to deliver high-quality and testable features
• Write documentation for platform, functionality, or processes to augment knowledge transfer
• Review teammate's code and pull requests for overall quality, standards alignment, and test coverage

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or the foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering or comparable field of study
• 3+ years of progressive experience in a software development (SDE) occupation, including automated testing of Front End and Back End services
• Proficient in application development including NodeJS and React in JavaScript/Typescript
• 3+ years of experience with full-stack application development
• 3+ years of experience with high-test coverage delivery using unit- and front-end-test frameworks
• 1+ years of experience implementing visualization libraries (D3, for example)
• Experience with application builds in an infrastructure-as-code system (Terraform, Kubernetes, Cloud Formation, etc.)
• Experience with development in a CI/CD/CT environment
• Experience with performance tuning for large-data-set front-end/visualizations
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Organized, detail-oriented and able to deliver project tasks on time
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Being a highly motivated, self-starting individual

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with large-scale data libraries such as Druid
• Experience collaborating with shared React component library
• Experience with documentation creation/maintenance
• Experience with developing applications in cloud platforms (eg AWS)
• Experience working with Agile methodologies
• Working knowledge of web accessibility fundamentals
• Experience with Kafka, Amazon SQS, or Kinesis
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Spinnaker, and continuous integration/delivery systems
• Experience developing mocking mechanisms for tests

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Financial benefits
• Bonus and/or long-term incentive units
• Flexible working hours
• Opportunities for professional development