Job Description

Job Summary:

On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also transforming Disney’s media business for the future. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to maximize flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

A few reasons why we think you’d love working for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology

Building the future of Disney’s media business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney’s media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day – from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.

Innovation: We develop and execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.

This opening is for a USA based employee, and must sit onsite in our offices in Seattle, WA, New York, NY, or Los Angeles, CA.

Job Summary:

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Android Platform SDK team. This is an opportunity to help build SDKs and libraries for the Android platform to be used in industry leading apps while getting to work closely with some of the greatest minds in the streaming media technology industry. You’ll be working on libraries that drive high profile features in apps like Disney+, Star+, Hulu, NHL and ESPN+. 

We offer a unique opportunity for any technologist:

Working together with the best in the industry - an amazing team of developers in different languages, platforms and technologies. From server side teams, to media delivery, DRM and streaming techs.
Growing yourself as a developer.
A working environment that values equality and diversity, knowledge-sharing and personal/professional development.

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

5+ years of experience building highly scalable and performant production level applications.
Strong experience in Kotlin development.
Proven architectural skills and ability to communicate about software processes, architectures and design patterns.
Experience collaborating with team members.
Experience mentoring junior level team members.
Experience with source control.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with networking technologies such as HTTP and WebSockets and the ability to use web debugging tools such as Charles.
Experience with RxJava.
Understanding of dependency injection frameworks.
Solid debugging and optimization skills.
Excellent communication and collaborative skills, be a team player.
Experience designing APIs and architecting systems used by multiple clients
Experience developing user-facing applications across Android devices and platforms
Experience developing libraries used across Android devices and platforms
Experience with video playback, specifically using ExoPlayer from Media3 
Experience with Dagger
Experience with Kotlin Coroutines
Understanding of concurrency and asynchronous architecture

Required Education  

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science