Senior Product Development Engineer

As a Senior Product Development Engineer, you will design and build systems that power Disney's global advertising platforms. This is a hands-on distributed systems role where you will develop high-scale backend and frontend services, improve system performance and reliability, contribute to architectural decisions across services, and build platforms used across multiple Disney products. You will work closely with engineers across the US and India to design systems that support large-scale traffic, strict reliability requirements, and evolving product needs. Strong candidates enjoy solving problems in distributed service architecture, modern frontend stacks, high-throughput data pipelines, fault tolerance, resiliency, and system observability.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement scalable backend services powering Disney's advertising platforms
• Develop and maintain modern web applications for advertisers and internal teams
• Actively participate in daily stand-ups and other scrum ceremonies.
• Collaborate with team members to design new solutions and drive alignment across partner teams.
• Participate in the breakdown and estimation of tasks.
• Communicate with team members on progress.
• Write code to implement new features or optimise existing services.
• Ensure code quality through testing, CI/CD pipelines, and code reviews.
• Participate in on-call rotation and production support.
• Follow industry best practices for service operations regarding CI/CD, monitoring, and investigation of incidents.
• Perform code reviews for members of the team.

Requirements:

• Strong collaboration and communication skills across teams and systems.
• Ownership mindset for services and projects delivered by the team.
• Curiosity and willingness to learn in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to define and monitor technical and operational metrics.
• Attention to opportunities for system optimisation and improvement.
• Positive and pragmatic approach to problem-solving.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience building scalable distributed systems.
• Demonstrated analytical/problem-solving skills.
• Strong hands-on proficiency in one of the coding languages - Java, JavaScript, Python, etc.
• Experience with modern web frameworks like React, Angular, Vue, etc.
• Experience with relational databases such as MySQL or Postgres.
• Experience designing API-driven architectures and integrating model-serving or external services across cloud environments.
• Strong engineering fundamentals including testing, CI/CD, and maintainable code practices.
• Great communication and collaboration skills, and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building or operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with Spring Boot or similar backend frameworks.
• Experience with ReactJS or similar frontend frameworks.
• Experience with streaming or event-driven systems (Kafka, Kinesis, etc. )
• Familiarity with containerised infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
• Exposure to high-throughput or low-latency systems.