Lead Software Engineer

工作 ID 10116674 地點阿姆斯特丹, 荷兰 有意工作的公司 Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology 日期已公佈 Aug. 28, 2025

申請

工作概要:

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology

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 Disney’s 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 maximize 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 around the world.

A few reasons why we think you’d love working for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology

Building the future of Disney’s media business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney’s 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.

Disney's Android team is seeking an experienced Lead 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 wide array of devices including phones, tablets, and TVs.

Our highly collaborative group works in tandem with many cross-functional teams. We value pristine communication skills, both written and verbal, as well as a bias for action. We are incredibly 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 from start to finish. 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.

What You Will Do

Key Responsibilities

Lead the design, development, and deployment of robust and scalable Android applications across various platforms including phones, tablets, and TVs.
Own project delivery end-to-end, including architecture, implementation, testing, release, and post-release monitoring.
Drive continuous improvement initiatives in code quality, testing strategy, and system design.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape product vision and ensure alignment across the development lifecycle.
Provide technical mentorship and coaching to engineers within the Android team, fostering a culture of collaboration, learning, and excellence.
Monitor and troubleshoot production issues, working proactively to ensure high availability and performance of applications.
Contribute to the planning and execution of release processes, remote configuration strategies, and live feature rollouts.
Maintain deep awareness of system health, application performance, and customer impact through monitoring and diagnostics tools.
Actively participate in design and code reviews, offering constructive feedback and upholding best practices.

Other General Activities

Represent the Android team in department-wide technical forums, retrospectives, and strategic planning sessions.
Identify and drive opportunities for refactoring, performance improvements, and feature modularization.
Contribute to shaping team goals, roadmaps, and technical strategy in alignment with broader business objectives.
Stay informed about latest trends in Android development and apply modern practices to improve user experience and development efficiency.
Assist with onboarding and support of new team members, sharing knowledge and documenting engineering workflows.
Collaborate with DevOps and QA teams to enhance CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
Partner with security and legal teams to ensure apps meet compliance and regulatory standards, especially for DRM and video streaming technologies.

Required Qualifications & Skills

Basic Qualifications

7+ 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)
Pristine communication skills to collaborate well across teams
You write phenomenal code, tests, and documentation
Experience resolving production issues ideally on a large scale
Successfully lead a project from start to finish
Experience coaching and mentoring colleagues
Well-versed in common Android libraries (e.g: Dagger 2 / Hilt, RxJava2, Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Jetpack Compose and other Jetpack libraries)
Well-versed in Android CI/CD (Jenkins and Github Actions).
A deep understanding of many aspects of the Android SDK such as Activity and Fragment lifecycles, thread management, custom views, animations and architectural patterns (View Architecture, Modularization)

Preferred Qualifications

Advanced Gradle understanding (Custom build tasks, convention plugins).
App performance tooling experience (Benchmarking, Tracing, Threading, Perfetto, Android Profiler)
Annotation processing (KAPT/KSP)
Knowledgeable about maintaining a large modularized codebase
Supporting multiple form factors (Mobile, Tablet, TV) and familiarity with Android TV / Amazon Fire TV development
Experience with streaming video, codecs, and DRM

Required Education

Bachelor’s degree or better in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent job experience.

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.

申請

關於Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology:

在Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology，我們結合想像力與創新，以重新想像人們體驗和參與世上最受歡迎故事和產品的方式。我們的工作內容廣泛，且精深細密。我們創造令人驚豔的體驗、改變媒體的未來，並打造產品和平台，讓世界各地的人們都能與自己喜愛的故事和體育活動緊密相連。

Disney結合世界級技術與獨特創意，因而與眾不同。這是我們過去、現在和未來的核心。我們是故事敍述者和創新者。創作者和創建者。表演者和工程師。

關於 The Walt Disney Company:

Walt Disney Company 連同其子公司和聯營公司，是領先的多元化國際家庭娛樂和媒體企業，其業務主要涉及三個範疇：Disney Entertainment、ESPN 及 Disney Experiences。Disney 在 1920 年代的起步之初，只是一間卡通工作室，至今已成為娛樂界的翹楚，並昂然堅守傳承，繼續為家庭中每位成員創造世界一流的故事與體驗。Disney 的故事、人物與體驗傳遍世界每個角落，深入人心。我們在 40 多個國家/地區營運業務，僱員及演藝人員攜手協力，創造全球和當地人們都珍愛的娛樂體驗。

這個職位隸屬於 TWDC (Benelux) BV，其所屬的業務部門是 Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology。

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