Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment &ESPNdigital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity.

Disney, a global leader in entertainment, isseekinga talented and dedicated Senior Software Engineer to join our Payments team. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a team within the Commerce, Growth and Identity organization that manages the payment transactions of millions of customers across our celebrated platforms - Disney+, ESPN+,Hulu.

Whatwe'relooking for:

• Own the stability, scalability, and reliability of our multi-tenant payment platform supporting Disney+, ESPN+, and Hulu, proactivelyidentifyingand resolving issues before theyimpactcustomers.
• Demonstrate strong ownership by driving technical solutions from design through implementation and operation, collaborating across teams to evolve the architecture of Tier 1 payment services.
• Build deepexpertisein Global Payments, taking initiative to understand international payment ecosystems and solve the unique challenges of serving a global streaming audience.
• Deliver at scale by designing, building, and operating high-throughput systems that process millions of payment transactions whilemaintainingperformance, resilience, and operational excellence.
• Lead reliability and performance improvements for mission-critical payment services, including integrations with new payment processors and support for SCA and other regional payment requirements.
• Champion security best practices for payment data storage, tokenization, and PCI compliance, ensuring the platform meets the highest security standards.
• Maintain a high engineering bar by writing well-tested, maintainable code, activelyparticipatingin design discussions and code reviews, and continuously improving system quality.
• Take initiative toidentifyopportunities for innovation, operational improvements, automation, and technical debt reduction, helping shape the future of our payment platform.
• Operate with an ownership mindset, supporting critical production systems through on-call rotations, incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term corrective actions to improve service health.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of 5 years of related work experience
• Proven hands-on experience with Scala, Java, or similar programming languages.
• Proven hands-on experience with API design, including REST andgRPC
• Demonstrated analytical andstrong systemdesign skills.
• Hands-on experience with event-driven systems using technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS SNS/SQS.
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure, such as AWS, Spinnaker, and Kubernetes
• Strong communicator and team player, able to adapt quicklyandeffectively in dynamic, fast-pacedenvironments.
• A commitment to continuous learning, mentorship, and striving for excellence.

PreferredQualifications:

• Experience working in functional programming environments, especially with Scala and the Cats Effect ecosystem
• Experience managing Tier 1 production services, including participation in on-call rotations and incident response.
• Experience mentoring interns and junior engineers

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