Description
Technology is at the heart of Disney's past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organisation of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney's media business globally.
The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for their businesses. They are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers.
The Disney Media Player Engineering team mission is to design video streaming playback solutions in collaboration with encoding, packaging, and delivery teams to optimise the Disney streaming technology stack for the best streaming experience possible on all platforms.
The team is seeking someone who can fill the role of a Senior Software Engineer to create a feature-rich standard streaming media playback library on Apple devices. The intention is to design and develop a layered architecture for media playback which can span all the Disney direct-to-consumer brands like Disney+, ESPN, ABC News, and Hulu.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement solutions in collaboration with team-members for new features which integrate with various Disney media services and back-ends.
- Collaborative API design with peer teams on API Services as well as front-end teams which depend on their libraries.
- Research and development for media playback experiences, integration, and testing.
- Participate in project estimation and resource planning.
- Ability to collaborate in a small, productive development team as well as the larger engineering organisation.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues, problems, and errors encountered across their various platforms.
- Ability to collaborate in a small, productive development team as well as ability to work independently.
- Specialise in Apple technologies such as UIKit, SwiftUI, AVKit and StoreKit to build a world-class application.
Minimum Qualifications:
- At least 5 years of industry experience in iOS software development, 3 of which have been spent using Swift
- At least 5 years of industry experience implementing complex user interfaces using Apple's UIKit or SwiftUI.
- You have at least 3 years of experience in agile processes to help the team be effective and efficient.
- Able to demonstrate experience in the full lifecycle of software development. Early stage, maintenance, and end of life.
- An understanding of the trade-offs of using different design patterns, such as MVC or MVVM.
- Knowledgeable in programming paradigms including Object Oriented and Reactive.
- Understanding of iOS/TVOS app development lifecycle.
- Experience in Object Oriented Programming.
- Write efficient, reliable, and maintainable code whether implementing improvements, user-facing features, or fixing defects – through collaboration with senior team members.
- Experience with unit test frameworks and continuous integration systems
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Motivated self-starter with the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with streaming technologies including HLS, MPEG-DASH, Transport Stream, and CMAF
- Experience with AVFoundation and its ecosystem
- Experience developing applications in all Apple platforms including iPhone, iPad, and TVOS.
The hiring range for this position in San Francisco, CA is $157,800.00 to $211,600.00 per year, in Glendale, CA is $144,100.00 to $193,200.00 per year, and in Seattle, WA and New York, NY is $150,900.00 to $202,400.00 per year.