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Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization 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.\nThe team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.\nHow you will contribute to our magical experience?:\nProduct Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. 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Moving streaming-protocol concerns out of the player and behind a clean API.\nDesign the hooks and data APIs that let consuming teams build their own control layouts, rather than shipping them our UI.\nImplement and maintain features on the QC player stack used daily by our operator teams.\nEstablish the engineering standards for the team: test coverage, code and design review, and how we decide what belongs in which layer.\nWork directly with QC operators to turn observed pain into product-shaped requirements.\nLead deployment quality and stability strategy, including testing approach and player telemetry/RUM.\nProvide technical expertise and mentoring to the engineers on the team, and raise the bar through review.\nUnblock issues that are blocking the testing and release of content to our customers.\nProvide on-call rotational support as needed.\nWhat we need from you to be part of this story:\n5+ years of experience building and delivering production-grade software applications.\nAdvanced level of English.\nHands-on coding. 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