The Walt Disney Company · 5 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$145K/yr - $195K/yr
5+ years expThe Walt Disney Company is a global leader in entertainment and technology, seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Media Engineering Native Player Platforms team. This role involves building scalable solutions for video streaming applications across multiple platforms, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and maintaining high code quality standards.
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Responsibilities
Develop an understanding of the DEEPT software stack and specifically the MediaX component
Maintain and update the Android, Xbox, and other platform variants of the Disney Media Player
Understand the internals of android and Xbox and how to debug and diagnose Device issues
Collaborate with application development teams, services engineering teams and product management to help understand and explain device limitations and requirements
Ensure that the latest audio and video standards like Dolby Vision, Dolby ATMOS, DTS:X, HDR10+, and more are delivered with full fidelity
Develop, Debug, Test and Benchmark various components in the software stack
Perform online code reviews of pull requests
Gather additional requirements and spec missing functionality required across various functional teams
Create and update documentation across the entire software development lifecycle as needed
Maintain a strong understanding of our code to identify, research and address issues
Contribute to strategies that ensure the quality and stability of our deployments, including testing strategies and telemetry approaches
Help to develop our project’s build system and continuous integration system as needed
Qualification
Required
5+ years of production experience with Java/Kotlin and the Android SDK
Proficiency with Reactive Programming and Dependency Injection
Well-versed in different architectural patterns (MVI/MVVM or equivalent)
Excellent communication skills who can collaborate well across teams
You write phenomenal code, tests, and documentation
Experience resolving production issues ideally on a large scale
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study and/or equivalent work experience
Preferred
Comfortable using common Android libraries such as Dagger 2 / Hilt, RxJava2, Groupie
Familiarity with Android TV / Amazon Fire TV development
Familiarity with Microsoft Media Foundation
Experience with streaming video, codecs, and DRM
Knowledgeable about maintaining a large modularized codebase
Experience using performance evaluation tools such as Android Profile
Benefits
A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company started as a cartoon studio and evolves into sports coverage and television shows.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$11BKey Investors
Citibank
2020-04-13Post Ipo Debt· $5B
2020-03-20Post Ipo Debt· $6B
1978-01-06IPO
Leadership Team
Robert Iger
CEO
Christine M. McCarthy
Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
2025-12-24
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