Job Posting Title:
Senior Software Engineer - Java
Req ID:
Job Description:
As a Software Engineer, you will join Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology's Growth & Commerce Platform Growth Life Orchestration Team. Disney has been investing tremendously in modernizing its platform by developing a platform layer that exposes the commerce system's capabilities to our front-end device clients (Web, mobile, living room devices) and our service partners like the customer service platform. The team's primary objective is to abstract away the core commerce domains from client teams and centralize all of the Growth & Commerce Platform capabilities into one shared layer. Another objective of the team is to decouple these core commerce systems to allow for faster feature delivery.
ResponsibilitiesWork alongside the Product and Business teams to understand the business implications and user flows for sign-up and user account management.
- Contribute to designs and develop a future proof API layer that exposes the commerce lifecycle platform capabilities to various clients.
- Review and develop robust API contracts and scalable microservices for internal clients.
- Assist in creating technical proposals to illustrate the high-level design and system flow between clients and backend systems.
- Understand key dependencies such as the core subscription, billing, and payment systems and how they will affect clients.
- Contribute to the end-to-end software development lifecycle for our systems: conceptualize, design, build, code review, test, load test, launch, and measure performance.
- Collaborate with the Product team to translate requirements into well-defined technical implementation.
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
- Strong code design and architectural skills
- API design experience (authoring and providing feedback) with stakeholders
- Strong programming experience in Java server side development
- Experience working at scale and high RPS throughput
- Familiarity with SQL
- Outstanding communication, collaboration skills, and a strong ethic of teamwork
- Quality-first demeanor with a focus on test automation and CI/CD
- Strong analytical skills
Preferred Qualifications- Experience working with AI tooling such as Claude Code or Cursor
- Experience with Spinnaker and Kubernetes
- Experience with Spring WebFlux or Reactive programming in Java
- Experience with GraphQL (implementation and integration)
- Experience with gRPC
- Experience with AWS, Terraform
The hiring range for this position in New York City is $148,700 - $199,400. 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:
Product Engineering
Job Posting Primary Business:
PE - Growth, Commerce & Identity
Primary Job Posting Category:
Software Engineer
Employment Type:
Full time
Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:
New York, NY, USA
Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:
Date Posted:
2026-05-13
