Lead Software Engineer - Back End / Java

Lead Software Engineer - Back End / Java

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Job ID 10135569

Location Santa Monica, California, United States / Glendale, California, United States

Business Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Date posted Nov. 11, 2025

Job Summary

As a Tech Lead Software Engineer, you will collaborate closely with engineers, project managers, and product managers to find the best solution for our viewers. You will drive projects end-to-end : designing the initial solution; finding alignment with partner teams; execution of the necessary code; and overseeing the deployment of code to production. Members of the team look to your code and documentation as examples of excellence. You value good‑faith collaboration, driving best practices, and promoting excellence on your team.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role

• Actively participate in daily stand-ups and other scrum ceremonies.
• Design new solutions and drive alignment across engineering and product teams.
• Expertly break down work at the epic level, setting project milestones with reasonable deadlines.
• Prioritize work within a project to deliver on the most necessary or urgent requirements.
• Anticipate and mitigate risk on projects.
• Effectively communicate with stakeholders on project progress.
• Write code to implement new features or optimize existing services.
• Determine the most efficient means to sufficiently test new code : unit tests, integration tests, performance tests, etc.
• Set best practices for the team for on-call responsibilities such as deployments, monitoring, and investigating incidents
• Use logs, monitoring tools, and work with developers to determine root causes across distributed components.
• Perform code reviews for members of the team, bearing a sense of responsibility for approved code.
• Coach and mentor teammates in an open, respectful, flexible, empathetic manner. Help onboard new team members.

Required Education, Experience / Skills / Training

Compensation

The hiring range for this position in Seattle, Washington and New York, NY is $163,100 to $218,700 per year and in Bristol, Connecticut, Santa Monica, California and Glendale, California is $155,700 to $208,700 per year and in San Francisco, California is $170,500 to $228,600 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and / or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and / or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Disney Streaming Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.

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