Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology
Location
Bristol, CT | United States
Job description
About the Role & Team
The Walt Disney Company has a rich tradition of creating innovative products and magical experiences for millions of people around the world. Software Engineers are at the heart of that innovation and magic, building platforms, services, tools, and infrastructure for an unmatched collection of content and brands such as ESPN, Disney, and ABC.
As a member of a diverse and talented organization, the software engineer crafts elegant and extensible solutions, at scale, using modern frameworks and technologies to deliver the foundation that powers the products our guests and fans use every day.
If you...
Demonstrate determination in finding solutions to complex puzzles
Have the curiosity to research and learn new technologies
Employ positive thinking and are able to work constructively in a diverse team setting
Are passionate about software development
Value learning and being exposed to new experiences
Love working in a startup culture
... then working at Disney is unlike anything else. We have the latest technology, game-changing ideas, and world-class talent. Come be a part of our team and help us find new ways to interact with users, however and wherever they connect with our brands!
What You Will Do
As a member of the Sports Core Data team, you will help build and support the applications behind the live processing of our sports platform, the content integrations that deliver the great ESPN storytelling content to all of our products, the taxonomy systems used to classify all of our data and content, as well as the backend systems in support of our content and data tools, all of which have a direct impact and exposure through many products like the ESPN app, ESPN.com, ESPN Studio shows, among many others. As a software engineer you and your team will be responsible for extensible solutions, at scale, and advancing our platform onto modern frameworks and technologies. You will:
Be involved in the requirements' gathering, analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of systems that support or enhance other applications within our environment.
Improve, support, or add functionality to existing systems that handle critical data flows or traffic for our products.
Collaborate & troubleshoot with the rest of the team in the analysis and resolution of hard engineering problems involving the ingest of sports data from many different providers in a multitude of data delivery technologies, including taking part of the on-call rotation.
Research and learn new technologies
Required Qualifications & Skills
Understanding of high volume, cached, fault tolerant, multi-threaded scalable systems
Has worked with Java and open-source technologies like Spring, Tomcat, MySQL, Kafka, Elastic Search, etc.
Exposure to cloud-based technologies such as AWS EC2, ECS, SQS, S3, Lambda, CloudFormation, etc.
Exposure to full lifecycle of application development, including best practices of unit testing, code reviews, documentation, etc.
Motivated self-starter with the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies
Strong analytical skills as well as proven capabilities for debugging and troubleshooting.
Good communication skills and attention to detail
Preferred Qualifications
Familiarity with relational databases
Education
BS Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
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