Position Details

Salary $148K – $199K USD / year

Type Full-Time

Experience senior

Exp. Years 5+ years

Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.

Category Software Engineering

About this role

Senior Software Engineer on Disney's Unified Messaging Platform team, building and evolving a multi-region, multi-tenant messaging platform that delivers emails, push notifications, SMS, and in-app messages for Disney streaming apps.

Key Responsibilities

Build and maintain product-driven initiatives to improve and expand the Unified Messaging Platform
Lead the design & enhancement of critical services in UMP; ensure scalability, performance, reliability
Collaborate with squad, Product Managers, Designers, QA, Operations to understand requirements and articulate decisions
Promote team support activities; participate in Agile ceremonies; provide technical guidance to juniors
Scheduled on-call duty

Technical Overview

Java/JVM-based services deployed on Amazon Web Services across regions; CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, Github Actions, Spinnaker); relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, Cassandra); strong emphasis on APIs/SDKs and testing.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior software engineer with 5+ years of experience building internet-scale applications, strong Java/JVM expertise, and hands-on AWS/cloud experience. The candidate should be proficient in CI/CD, multi-region/multi-tenant architectures, and capable of mentoring junior engineers.

Must-Have Skills

5+ years of experience building internet-scale web or services applicationsExperience in a Java and/or JVM languages (Scala/Kotlin)Familiarity with the AWS environment (ECSS3EC2LambdaCloudWatch)Solid understanding of software development fundamentalsProficiency with unitintegration and functional testsExperience with Relational and NoSQL Databases (PostgreSQLMySQLDynamoDBCassandra)Proficiency with CI/CD procedures & tools (JenkinsGithub ActionsSpinnaker)Familiarity with service APIs and/or SDKsUnderstanding of agile processesversion control (GithubSVNJiraBasecamp)

Nice-to-Have Skills

Experience or certification with AWS services (S3SQSSNSKinesisLambdaCloudWatch)Familiarity with big data tools (SparkDatabricksEMR)Terraform or other infrastructure as code toolingExperience building scalablefault-toleranthigh-uptime systemsMentoring othersServerless solutionsPython

Tools & Platforms

JenkinsGithub ActionsSpinnakerJiraBasecamp

Required Skills

5+ years of experience building internet-scale web or services applications; Java/JVM languages (Scala/Kotlin); AWS (ECSS3EC2LambdaCloudWatch); Relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQLMySQLDynamoDBCassandra); CI/CD with JenkinsGithub ActionsSpinnaker; APIs/SDKs; Agile processes; Git/Jira/Basecamp

Hard Skills

JavaJVMAWSAmazon Web ServicesS3EC2LambdaPostgreSQLMySQLDynamoDBCassandraJenkinsGithub ActionsSpinnakerCI/CDAPIsSDKsAgileJiraTerraformMessaging platformon-call

Soft Skills

communicationleadershipmentoringteam collaborationproblem-solvingtime managementstakeholder managementadaptability

Certifications

Preferred

AWS Certification

Industry & Role

Industry Media

Job Function Design, build, and maintain the Unified Messaging Platform for Disney Streaming's messaging across multiple regions

Role Subtype Senior Software Engineer

Tech Domains Java, Amazon Web Services, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Jenkins, Spinnaker, CI/CD, APIs, SDKs, Terraform

Keywords for Your Resume

Sr Software Engineersenior software engineerJavaJVMAmazon Web ServicesAWSS3EC2LambdaPostgreSQLMySQLDynamoDBCassandraJenkinsGithub ActionsSpinnakerCI/CDAPIsSDKsAgileJiraTerraformmessaging platformon-callmulti-region

Deal Breakers

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required, 5+ years of experience with internet-scale applications, Must have Java/JVM experience

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