Sr Software Engineer

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. 

Disney, a global leader in entertainment, is seeking a talented and dedicated Senior Software Engineer to join our Payments team. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a team within the Commerce, Growth and Identity organization that manages the payment transactions of millions of customers across our celebrated platforms - Disney+, ESPN+, Hulu. 

What we're looking for:

• Own the stability, scalability, and reliability of our multi-tenant payment platform supporting Disney+, ESPN+, and Hulu, proactively identifying and resolving issues before they impact customers.  
• Demonstrate strong ownership by driving technical solutions from design through implementation and operation, collaborating across teams to evolve the architecture of Tier 1 payment services.  
• Build deep expertise in Global Payments, taking initiative to understand international payment ecosystems and solve the unique challenges of serving a global streaming audience.  
• Deliver at scale by designing, building, and operating high-throughput systems that process millions of payment transactions while maintaining performance, resilience, and operational excellence.  
• Lead reliability and performance improvements for mission-critical payment services, including integrations with new payment processors and support for SCA and other regional payment requirements.  
• Champion security best practices for payment data storage, tokenization, and PCI compliance, ensuring the platform meets the highest security standards.  
• Maintain a high engineering bar by writing well-tested, maintainable code, actively participating in design discussions and code reviews, and continuously improving system quality.  
• Take initiative to identify opportunities for innovation, operational improvements, automation, and technical debt reduction, helping shape the future of our payment platform.  
• Operate with an ownership mindset, supporting critical production systems through on-call rotations, incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term corrective actions to improve service health. 

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 
• Minimum of 5 years of related work experience  
• Proven hands-on experience with Scala, Java, or similar programming languages.  
• Proven hands-on experience with API design, including REST and gRPC.  
• Demonstrated analytical and strong system design skills.  
• Hands-on experience with event-driven systems using technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS SNS/SQS.  
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure, such as AWS, Spinnaker, and Kubernetes  
• Strong communicator and team player, able to adapt quickly and effectively in dynamic, fast-paced environments.  
• A commitment to continuous learning, mentorship, and striving for excellence.  

Preferred Qualifications:  

• Experience working in functional programming environments, especially with Scala and the Cats Effect ecosystem  
• Experience managing Tier 1 production services, including participation in on-call rotations and incident response.  
• Experience mentoring interns and junior engineers 

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