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Compensation
$148, 700 to $199, 400 per year
- Salary period
- unclear
- Location basis
- dependent on the candidate’s geographic region
Tech stack
Required
Nice to have
Location
NYC
Work setup
- Employment
- full-time
- Level
- Senior
- Remote policy
- ON-SITE, NYC
- Remote scope
- onsite
- Authorization
- unclear
Role details
Responsibilities
- Support Disney, ESPN and Hulu subscriptions at scale
- Solve internet-scale problems
- Maintain high code quality
- Collaborate with the team
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, secure, and efficient software applications using Scala and other backend languages.
- Utilize AWS services (CFN, EC2, Lambda, S3, Dynamo, etc.) to deploy and manage applications in the cloud.
- Implement containerized solutions using Docker, deploy and manage services on Kubernetes.
- Design and build distributed systems that are fault-tolerant, highly available, and scalable. Understand concepts such as event-driven architecture, microservices, and data consistency.
- Implement and maintain observability best practices, including tagging, metrics, and logging to provide comprehensive visibility into system performance. Use tools like Datadog to monitor the health and performance of applications in real-time.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams including product managers, UI/UX designers, and DevOps engineers to define requirements, design systems, and deliver features.
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code while following best practices for software development. Perform code reviews and provide mentorship to junior engineers on and offshore.
- Tackle complex technical challenges and continuously seek opportunities to improve system performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Follow team’s best practices regarding the safe use of LLMs and suggest improvements as appropriate.
Requirements
- FP experience
- Comfortable working with FP Scala
- Passion for maintaining high code quality
- Strong collaboration
Application
Please apply via Disney Careers link.
- Deadline
- May 07, 2026
- Portfolio
- unclear
- GitHub
- unclear
- Cover letter
- unclear
- Apply flow
- ats
Company context
- Product
- Disney, ESPN and Hulu subscriptions
- Industry
- Streaming / subscriptions
Description
The Subscriptions team is looking to expand our team in the NYC office. We are a dynamic team of engineers that support all your Disney, ESPN and Hulu subscriptions at scale. We solve problems at internet-scale that only a handful of teams ever reach. * FP Scala is our main programming language. Apply if you have FP experience; we consider other language backgrounds coming in but you will be doing FP Scala, so expect an FP style interview. * Strong collaborator. * Passion in maintaining high code quality. * AI Enabled but not dependent. * Our backends are global scale built on AWS and K8S. If you are comfortable with these technologies, please apply.
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