Lead Android Software Engineer
The Walt Disney CompanyAbout The Role & Team
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 our 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 enhance 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 globally.
Why You’ll Love Working Here
- Building the Future: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power our 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 is a hybrid role based in the Amsterdam office.
What You Will Do
Disney's Android team is seeking an experienced Software Engineer who is excited to build apps enjoyed by millions around the world. You will be building scalable, elegant solutions for the Android applications on Disney+ and Star+ across a variety of devices including phones, tablets, and TVs. Our highly collaborative group works in tandem with many cross-functional teams. We value communication skills, both written and verbal, as well as a bias for action. We are exceptionally invested in maintaining high code quality standards with unit tests, automated tests, modern libraries, and a Kotlin codebase. We strive to build the best Live and video-on-demand (VOD) applications in the world, and we look forward to hearing more about your skills and how they can help us achieve this lofty goal.
As a Lead Android Engineer at Disney, you are ready and willing to be responsible for a wide array of technical aspects. You assist with critical components including our release process, remote configuration management, and live production issues. You have and will lead entire projects end-to-end. While familiar with the high-level aspects of our project as a whole, you are also focused on and monitoring the health of the team. You not only seek out leadership opportunities to improve processes, but you do it with finesse and a positive attitude. You are comfortable facilitating career growth amongst team members and are invested in the long-term success of the company.
Required Qualifications & Skills
- 5+ years of production experience with Kotlin, and the Android SDK
- Proficiency with Reactive Programming and Dependency Injection
- Well-versed in different architectural patterns (MVI/MVVM or equivalent)
- Experience with Java, Gradle, Databases, Reactive paradigms, coroutines.
- Pristine communication skills who can collaborate well across teams
- You write excellent code, tests, and documentation
- Experience resolving production issues ideally on a large scale
- Optimally lead a project from start to finish
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience or better in Computer Science or a related technical field.
Preferred Qualifications
- Comfortable using common Android libraries such as Dagger 2 / Hilt, RxJava2, Groupie
- Familiarity with Android TV / Amazon Fire TV development
- Experience with streaming video, codecs, and DRM
- Knowledgeable about maintaining a large modularized codebase
- Experience using performance evaluation tools such as Android Profiler
The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, and where all can thrive and belong. Disney is committed to forming a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Benefits Extracted with AI
- Equal Opportunity Employer
- Diverse Workforce
- Reasonable Accommodation for Disabilities
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