Product Software Engineer II
The Walt Disney Company
About the role
Job Posting Title:
Product Software Engineer II
Req ID:
10160173
Job Description:
Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology
Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally.
The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.
Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:
Building the future of Disney’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally.
Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.
Messaging Fleet is responsible for maintaining the Unified Messaging Platform (UMP), a multi-channel (push, email, sms) marketing support system. The platform provides marketing with the tools needed to drive engagement, retention, and legal transactional messaging requirements through segmentation, targeting, scheduling, and a sophisticated decision engine that automates and personalizes messages for every user.
Responsibilities
Design core, backend software components for the Unified Messaging Platform and implement tier-1 microservices in Java.
Implement asynchronous processes to run in the cloud for various data transformation operations.
Lead the design & enhancement of critical services in UMP, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability. Research and integrate new technologies into the production environment to optimize core service offerings.
Work on tech design for various initiatives and projects as per business needs.
Provide technical guidance to junior team members, covering code quality, system design, and best practices in software development. Actively participate in code reviews, offering constructive feedback to improve code quality, system reliability, and performance.
Collaborate with your squad, Product Managers, Designers, QA, Operations, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and articulate technical decisions and outcomes.
Participate in Agile methodology and SCRUM processes such as Sprint Planning, Backlog grooming, Daily Standups, and Retrospectives with the team.
Provide on-call support for critical services on a rotational basis.
Own features/functionality and deliver projects end-to-end with high quality and robust architecture.
Ramp up on new domains and technologies.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
3+ years of experience building internet-scale web or services applications.
Experience in Java, cloud services, and management tools (e.g. Git, SVN, Jira, Basecamp)
Excellent understanding of software development fundamentals
Experience with writing unit, integration and functional tests
Experience with standard CI/CD procedures & tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Spinnaker.
Proven ability to integrate with service APIs and/or SDKs.
Experience working in a modern, agile software team with version control & project.
Preferred Qualifications
Knowledge or certification with AWS services, including ECS (Docker), S3, EC2, Lambda, CloudWatch
Experience with big data technologies & tools like Spark, Databricks, EMR
Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure as code tooling
Experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, high-uptime systems
Creative and inventive problem solving
Experience mentoring other developers
Experience with UI frameworks (React/Typescript)
Knowledge of JavaScript
#DISNEYTECH
The hiring range for this position in New York, NY is $124,900 to $167,400 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 Posting Segment:
PE - Streaming Backend
Job Posting Primary Business:
PE - Streaming Backend - Messaging & Audience Engineering
Primary Job Posting Category:
Product Software Engineering
Employment Type:
Full time
Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:
New York, NY, USA
Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:
Date Posted:
2026-09-22
Responsibilities
- Design and implement backend components and tier-1 Java microservices for the Unified Messaging Platform.
- Build cloud-based asynchronous data transformation processes.
- Lead the design and enhancement of critical services for scalability, performance, and reliability.
- Provide technical guidance and participate in code reviews.
- Collaborate with product, design, QA, operations, and other stakeholders.
- Participate in Agile and Scrum processes and provide rotational on-call support.
- Own features and deliver projects end-to-end.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience.
- At least 3 years of experience building internet-scale web or services applications.
- Experience with Java, cloud services, and tools such as Git, SVN, Jira, or Basecamp.
- Strong software development fundamentals and experience writing unit, integration, and functional tests.
- Experience with CI/CD tools and procedures, such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Spinnaker.
- Experience integrating service APIs or SDKs and working in a modern Agile software team.
- Preferred: AWS, big data technologies, infrastructure as code, scalable systems, developer mentoring, React/TypeScript, or JavaScript.
Benefits
- Bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be included.
- Medical, financial, and other benefits are available depending on level and position.
Skills mentioned
About The Walt Disney Company
Imagine a career at Disneyland Paris. From the moment you arrive, you’ll be immersed in a dynamic and multicultural team of talent that welcomes our Guests every day to create magical souvenirs they’ll cherish forever. Since 1992, we’ve opened our Park gates to 320 million visitors and made the dreams of millions come true! You too could be part of the magic! The success in delivering these projects and their stories is thanks to our team of 15,000 Cast Members who live Walt Disney’s vision: they bring imagination and wonder to our guests while seeing their own careers flourish. And this is where you can get involved. We have 500 different job profiles across our corporate and operations departments, so whether you’re interested in the operational roles within our Park, maybe to work part-time alongside your studies, or if you’re interested in Marketing, Finance, Engineering and our other corporate roles, we invite you to apply to us! Discover our many career opportunities in our recruitment website careers.disneylandparis.com :