Product Software Engineering Manager

Job Posting Title:
Product Software Engineering Manager

Req ID:
10138692

Job Description:

Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. 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.

The 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.

Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:

1. Building the future of Disney’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
2. Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally.
3. Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Job Summary:

As   a   Engineering Manager, you will hit the ground   running   providing clear technical leadership to a team of software engineers working on advertising products. You will be the results-driven technical leader of a motivated team where   we’ll   be looking for you to help steer the team   in order to   drive application architecture, code quality, and make sure we are doing the right thing   by   our users.   Y ou   will lead your team   by example:   taking a hands-on role in engineering solid,   performant   and scalable technical solutions .    You will use your deep engineering, architecture, and leadership skills to drive your team to   iteratively and continuously deploy new features, functionality, and products   to our customers .    You will be an important part of a lean DevOps and automation culture where   we’ll   be looking for you to collaborate with the frontend and backend leads to drive architecture, champion code quality, and to build optimized services .

We want someone that has   grown up   through the web software development ranks -   possessing   10 or more years’ experience in designing and architecting highly scalable, secure, performant, and usable web applications using Microsoft   and Java   tech stack. The ideal candidate would possess deep skills in   server side   technology (NET, C#,   ASP.Net   Core,   Spring Boot, Java,   RESTful Web Services), while having expertise with orchestration and containerization platforms (Docker and Kubernetes), coupled with hands on persistence and data streaming technology experience (MySQL, Oracle,   DynamoDB,   RavenDB , Redis, Kafka).

While The Walt Disney Company is a large company, ideally,   we’d   like if you have some   previous   experience in a U.S. startup environment and be comfortable performing multiple roles. We strive to get things done quickly, with high quality, and we are committed to the agile   methodology . Our work is guided by lean principles (looking at value and looking for waste; not doing anything ‘for the sake of doing it’).

We’re   looking for a passionate, impactful, technical leader who wants to come here to do their   very best   work and make their mark, add their chapter to the long and storied history of The Walt Disney Company. Someone who holds themselves and their teammates accountable in a professional, collaborative manner. A collaborative technologist who   seeks   to bring the best out in themselves and those around them. Someone who can provide a fresh perspective and innovative insight  in to   our initiatives.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

- Be willing to take ownership for the software developed under your watch, all the way to production and through operations.
- Take an active and hands-on role in the growth of the individuals on your team: mentoring, career coaching, and performance management.
- Actively iterate with your leader and fellow Engineering Managers on a common set of continuously evolving Software Engineering standards and practices, and champion them on your team as you mentor individuals.
- Lead and oversee Senior Engineers as they architect and deliver cloud native and service-oriented UI components and applications.
- Provide day to day hands-on technical leadership, oversight, and mentorship for your immediate team.
- Provide Software Engineering leadership across various product teams and individuals, regardless of reporting structure.
- Collaborate with team and peers to design complex applications, peer review code, and suggest optimization.
- Enable continuous deployment by championing quality engineering practices: linting, unit testing, web UI testing, pipeline automation.
- Reason logically and creatively,   identifying   problems, drawing valid conclusions from the data available, and develop effective solutions while applying creative thinking in the design and development of high performing web applications.
- Collaborate with and influence product teams to build and   maintain   design system standards, processes, and adoption.
- Check-in valuable, clean code   on a daily basis   that adds new features and capabilities.
- Create reference implementations for the purpose of mentoring and leading your team.
- Investigate and resolve any production issues from end user (UI) to persistence layer and work to prevent them.
- Work with project managers to ensure that all project deliverables are on time and high quality.
- Assist   in rapid prototyping of design concepts   in order to   prove and test ideas with end-users.

Basic Qualifications:

- Have 8-10 years of experience in web application development or software engineering in a large enterprise environment using modern frameworks   (e.g., ASP.NET Core,   SprintBoot ,   Docker, Kubernetes)
- Have 2-3 years of experience in software engineering management, managing teams that deliver high-quality software
- Be able to   demonstrate   significant experience   working with relational databases, SQL Server , RDS   and newer NoSQL data stores as well as event streaming platforms such as Kafka
- Familiarity with cloud native technologies such as   AWS and Azure
- Have a strong interest in   open source   technology
- Possess   good communication   skills and enjoy mentoring and helping others to succeed as a team
- Care about your craft and have opinions about the “right” way to do things with technology
- Demonstrated experience providing technical direction and influencing design decisions across teams

Preferred Qualifications:

- ​ Previous work experience in Ad tech applications.
- Experience working with vendor teams to deliver high quality results.
- Knowledge of performance testing and application profiling.
- Strong curiosity about how Disney delivers the Magic and a desire to be a part of it.
- Track record   of driving complex features or systems from   inception   to production in a leadership capacity.
- Experience contributing to long-term technical roadmaps and engineering strategy.

Experience with:

- Technology stack includes .NET Core, C#, ASP.NET Core , Spring Boot,   Java   and REST APIs .
- Data persistence   utilizing   a mix of   relational and NoSQL databases including SQL Server, Oracle,   Aurora,   Redis,   ElasticSearch ,   DynamoDB   and   RavenDB.
- Data streaming   stack that includes Kafka.
- Azure   and AWS   cloud   and cloud native   stack   such as   K8s ,   Key Vaults,   Azure Storage , S3.
- Unit testing using   NUnit.
- Object Oriented Programming fundamentals   and   in depth understanding of   Dependency   Injection.
- Docker containers orchestrated via   AKS and EKS.
- Observability stack that includes Splunk, Datadog and Grafana.
- Experience guiding platform-wide architectural improvements or modernization initiatives.
- Experience evaluating and selecting   new technologies   or tools for team-wide adoption.

Required Education:

- Minimum a   Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science , Computer Information Systems, Engineering, or another technical field .
- Prefer   Master's degree in Computer Science , Software Engineering or related technical discipline is highly desirable .

Job Posting Segment:
Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Job Posting Primary Business:
Ad Platforms

Primary Job Posting Category:
Product Software Engineering

Employment Type:
Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:
Bangalore, India

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:
2025-12-18