Lead Software Engineer - ETL

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology's Metadata Ingest team is seeking a Lead Software Developer who is sharp, motivated and will help build the technology backbone for our current and future products. The team is responsible for the end-to-end technology needs to acquire live and linear content from over 1000 channels and deliver the highest quality streaming services to tens of millions of users. As a part of this team, you would use technologies like SpringBoot, Postgres, Redis, Kafka and native AWS resources such as DynamoDB, SQS, Elasticache, Elasticsearch etc.

Responsibilities:

• Champion engineering best practices to write well constructed and easy to maintain code while collaborating with product managers and other team leads to deliver business functionality.
• Propose robust solutions for the content management platform services and interfaces.
• Design well-architected solutions and build iteratively into systems while maintaining the best agile practices; and write defensive and robust tests.
• Communicate status with peers and/or managers and present views and opinions patiently.
• Partner with project management to release and launch production quality software, lead a project from vision to completion.
• Mentor other developers on the team on standards, process, and best practices.

Qualifications:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of software development experience, and proficiency in Java.
• Expertise with core Computer Science fundamentals, including Object-Oriented programming, data structures and algorithms (hashing, trees, graphs, search etc.)
• Fundamental understanding of relational, key-value document, and graph databases
• An enjoyment for going deep on performance tuning, and a love of owning a problem end-to-end.
• A desire to relentlessly pursue innovative ways on how to tackle problems and improve systems.

Nice-to-haves:

• Curiosity for streaming TV and Live Event delivery software and infrastructure
• Experience with Distributed Systems and Event-driven Architecture
• Passion for Sports, News, or Live events

The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, California is $149,300 - $200,200 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.