The Walt Disney Company · 1 week ago
Senior Software Engineer - Scala
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$145K/yr - $195K/yr
5+ years expThe Walt Disney Company is a global leader in media and entertainment technology. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Scala to build high-performance, scalable systems for their digital and streaming products, while collaborating with business partners and participating in the technical community.
Amusement Park and ArcadeAnimationConsumer GoodsDigital MediaE-CommerceMedia and EntertainmentMulti-level MarketingPerforming ArtsResorts
Responsibilities
Work with a team of engineers to build high-performance, stable, scalable systems to be deployed in an enterprise setting
Talk to business partners to understand and refine requirements
Participate in the on-call rotation, supporting systems and services during production incidents
Establish standards within the team to drive quality and excellence
Participate in organization technical community through presentations, tech talks, and other knowledge-sharing efforts
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
5+ years related experience crafting backend architectures and delivering backend applications in a production environment
Validated knowledge of operating large-scale high-availability backend services and Scala services
Knowledge of AGILE/Scrum practices
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Self-learner, independent, excellent problem-solving skills
Preferred
Expertise in functional programming patterns and experience building RESTful services (Scala APIs)
Understanding of async programming models (events, callbacks, promises, async/await) and threading/concurrency
Understanding of source control concepts and systems, CI/CD pipelines and exposure to Git
Experience with build and deployment technologies such as Jenkins and Docker. Experience with messaging technologies (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, etc.)
Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, databases, etc.) and strong understanding of design patterns and principles
Experience operating within a Public Cloud Provider (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
Experience with observability tools for metrics, logging, and monitoring (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, Grafana)
Experience with storage & caching technologies: S3, S3 Compatible on-prem object storage, DynamoDB, RDBMS, Redis
Benefits
Medical
Financial
Other benefits
Company
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company started as a cartoon studio and evolves into sports coverage and television shows.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$11BKey Investors
Citibank
2020-04-13Post Ipo Debt· $5B
2020-03-20Post Ipo Debt· $6B
1978-01-06IPO
Leadership Team
Robert Iger
CEO
Christine M. McCarthy
Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
2026-01-20
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