Manager, Software Engineering (Full Stack), Ad Platforms at The Walt Disney Company

Glendale, California, United States

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Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years), Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Entertainment, Advertising, MediaIndustries

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience
  • Advanced proficiency with Java
  • Proficiency with Javascript frameworks (React, node.js)
  • Solid understanding of micro-service architecture
  • Relational database design / implementation
  • Demonstrable analytical / problem solving skills
  • Great communication, collaboration skills and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Demonstrated experience leading a software development team
  • BS or MS in Computer Science / Engineering or relevant work experience
  • Willingness and desire to effectively communicate and collaborate across teams and systems on architecture, design, and implementation
  • Demonstrated project ownership
  • System and API design, and implementation best practices to guide and mentor, for example, micro-service encapsulation and loose coupling
  • Passion for mentoring, learning, and adapting to a very challenging and complicated landscape
  • Proven ability to work with product teams to translate requirements into well-defined technical implementations, as well as the ability to define technical and operational metrics to measure system health
  • Keen eye for potential optimizations and enhancements
  • Kindness and pragmatic optimism
  • Deep understanding of Java and the SDLC
  • Experience building internal and external performant web based UIs
  • Detailed understanding of database design and usage, including ORM
  • Preferred Qualifications
  • SpringBoot and related Spring projects, such as spring-data-jpa
  • Redis and/or MemCache
  • Typescript
  • Apache Kafka and/or Kinesis
  • AWS or other cloud platform
  • Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes
  • Ad Tech industry

Responsibilities

  • Ensure the direction of your team, both from a design and implementation perspective, with a keen focus on ensuring interoperability, API design, and appropriate levels of encapsulation
  • Reviewing a lot of code and tests
  • Available for a weekly-rotating On-Call support schedule
  • Reading requirements documentation from Product and translating into implementation tickets, and leading the team through execution
  • Defining, reviewing, documenting, and estimating LOE for software and system designs in a high throughput, low latency microservices environment
  • Defining and prioritizing sprintable work for your team, as well as working with other leads on cross-functional projects
  • Enhancing system observability with proper metrics, monitors and alerts
  • Regularly scheduled 1:1 meetings with team members to guide them through personal and career development
  • Thoughtful annual reviews for direct reports
  • Performance management

Skills

Key technologies and capabilities for this role

JavaMicroservicesAPI DesignSystem DesignFull StackDistributed SystemsSDLC

Questions & Answers

Common questions about this position

What technical skills are required for the Manager, Software Engineering role?

The role requires a deep understanding of Java and the SDLC, experience building performant web-based UIs, and detailed understanding of database design and usage including ORM.

Is this a remote position or does it require office work?

This information is not specified in the job description.

What is the salary or compensation for this position?

This information is not specified in the job description.

What does the company culture emphasize for this engineering manager role?

The culture emphasizes effective communication and collaboration across teams, kindness and pragmatic optimism, a passion for mentoring and learning, and guiding teams through personal development via regular 1:1 meetings.

What makes a strong candidate for this software engineering manager position?

Strong candidates demonstrate project ownership, system and API design best practices, ability to translate product requirements into technical implementations, code review expertise, and leadership in defining sprint work and enhancing observability.

The Walt Disney Company

Leading producers & providers of entertainment and information

About The Walt Disney Company

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1923Year Founded
N/ACompany Stage
10,001+Employees

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