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Job Summary:
Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity.
This Lead Software Engineer, Personalization and Recommendations is a position within the Engagement Experiences & Platforms team of The Walt Disney Company's Entertainment and ESPN Technology group.
This role reports to Data Team Lead, Personalization and Recommendations.
This is a hands-on engineering position developing recommendation systems for personalized, data-driven experiences. In this role, you will work with a cross-functional team to conceptualize and develop world-class Disney apps. Based on your experience, you will apply technical expertise to manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables and will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.
If hired, you will play a meaningful role in the evolving experiences across consumer facing digital products, with responsibilities for the technical design and implementation of large size projects and features.
We are looking for you if you are
Highly adaptable and committed to learning
Have a track record of delivering solutions utilizing Python
Thrive in an agile and collaborative environment.
Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:
Build data pipelines required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources
Explore and experiment with the latest visualization libraries and technologies and choose the right tools to support our data visualization use cases
Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.
Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software
Participate in the design and implementation of core Platforms and Content Distribution systems
Collaborate with internal & external teams to define requirements and delivery schedules for projects
Design and deliver high quality code for small to medium size projects and make critical contributions working with others on larger projects
Work with the team to iteratively improve development practices and processes
Build strong relationships with the team while collectively finding opportunities for improvements around quality and automation
Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:
Basic Qualifications:
7+ years hands-on professional experience with back-end systems design and development
Robust programming skills and strong experience with Python
Comprehensive understanding of HTTP/S, APIs, and web services
Exposure to full lifecycle of application development, including practices like continuous integration, unit testing, code reviews, documentation, etc.
Ability to collaborate in a small, productive development team as well as the larger engineering organization
Motivated self-starter with the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies
Excellent verbal and written communication skills; can effectively articulate complex ideas and influence others through well-reasoned explanations
Write efficient, reliable, and maintainable code whether implementing architectural improvements, user-facing features, or fixing defects
Troubleshoot and resolve issues, problems, and errors encountered across our various platforms
Analyze and optimize application code for efficiency, reliability, and performance
Understand product architecture, assisting other Software Architects as necessary
Manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment
Embrace a highly collaborative team that rewards quality code and effective communication
Interest in industry trends on new technologies, best practices and solutions.
A passion for innovation and raising the bar in all development aspects.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with the following technologies is a plus: AWS, Python Asyncio, FastAPI, Kafka, Airflow, Snowflake, Postgresql, serverless computing
Experience with working on ML based products and designing data pipelines is a plus
Required Education
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
DISNEYTECH
The hiring range for this position in New York, NY & Seattle, WA is $159,500.00 - $213,900 per year and in San Francisco, CA $166,800.00 - $223,600.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.
Job ID: 10134180
Location: New York,New York
Job Posting Company: Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology
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