About the Role :

As a Full-Stack Senior Product Software Engineer, you will collaborate with cross-functional partners and engineering teams on the design and implementation of innovative products and features, contributing to the evolution of user-centric advertising at scale. You'll exercise technical ownership, provide peer mentoring, and ensure our systems are robust, observable, and future-ready.

On a daily basis you should bring :

- A passion for building and owning mission-critical systems. A growth mindset, with a willingness to mentor and learn in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

- A commitment and desire to effectively communicate and collaborate across teams and systems.

- An understanding of micro-service encapsulation and loose coupling, and why they are important.

- An understanding of how to define technical and operational metrics to measure system health and to manage risk.

- A pragmatic approach to solving engineering challenges at scale.

Key Responsibilities :

- Design, build, and support scalable microservices and user interfaces for Disney's Ad Platform, leveraging Java and modern front-end frameworks.

- Collaborate with product, UX, and engineering peers to deliver features that enhance user-centric advertising.

- Translate user stories into actionable engineering tasks with ownership from development through deployment.

- Mentor and support teammates through code reviews, documentation, and informal guidance (no direct reports).

- Improve system observability by implementing metrics, monitoring, and alerting solutions.

- Participate in on-call rotations as part of our commitment to operational excellence.

- Champion best practices in code quality, automated testing, and agile workflows.

- Understanding and using automated tools (AI) while adhering to company policy.

Required Qualifications :

- 4 - 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.

- Proficiency with Java and related frameworks (Spring Boot, ORMs, etc.).

- Experience with ReactJS or modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., Vue, Angular), and willingness to learn new technologies as needed.

- Strong background in relational databases (MySQL, Postgres), including schema and query design.

- Experience working with RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.

- Strong foundation in computer science principles, including data structures and algorithms.

- Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications :

- Experience in ad tech.

- Experience with programmatic advertising or real-time bidding platforms.

- Spring Boot and related Spring projects.

- Cloud platforms such as AWS.

- Modern DevOps tools such as Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.

- Data Streaming Mechanisms such as Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis, and/or SNS/SQS.

- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.