Software Engineer II

As a Software Engineer, you will join Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology's Growth & Commerce Platform Growth Life Orchestration Team. Disney has been investing tremendously in modernizing its platform by developing a platform layer that exposes the commerce system’s capabilities to our front-end device clients (Web, mobile, living room devices) and our service partners like the customer service platform.  

The team's primary objective is to abstract away the core commerce domains from client teams and centralize all of the Growth & Commerce Platform capabilities into one shared layer. Another objective of the team is to decouple these core commerce systems to allow for faster feature delivery. 

Responsibilities 

• Work alongside the Product and Business teams to understand the business implications and user flows for sign-up and user account management. 

• Contribute to designs and develop a future proof API layer that exposes the commerce lifecycle platform capabilities to various clients. 

• Review and develop robust API contracts and scalable microservices for internal clients. 

• Assist in creating technical proposals to illustrate the high-level design and system flow between clients and backend systems. 

• Understand key dependencies such as the core subscription, billing, and payment systems and how they will affect clients. 

• Contribute to the end-to-end software development lifecycle for our systems: conceptualize, design, build, code review, test, load test, launch, and measure performance. 

• Collaborate with the Product team to translate requirements into well-defined 
  technical implementation. 

Basic Qualifications 

• Minimum of 3 years of related work experience

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

• Strong code design and architectural skills 

• API design experience (authoring and providing feedback) with 
  stakeholders 

• Strong programming experience in Java 

• Familiarity with SQL 

• Outstanding communication, collaboration skills, and a strong ethic of teamwork 

• Quality-first demeanor with a focus on test automation and CI/CD 

• The ability to jump into a project and contribute immediately to both architecture and implementation 

• Strong analytical skills

​Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience with Spinnaker and Kubernetes 

• Experience with Spring WebFlux or Reactive programming in Java 

• Experience with GraphQL (implementation and integration) 

• Experience or familiarity with gRPC 

• Experience with AWS, Terraform 

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