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Job title

Sr. Software Engineer

Company The Walt Disney Company - Walt Disney Internet Gro
Wage Not specified
Location United States, Washington, Seattle
Employment type Full Time
Education Bachelor
Year Experience 3 - 4 Years of Practical Experience
Travel Not Specified
Published on 7/16/2008
Description
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) develops and delivers a compelling mix of interactive entertainment and information content and services for Internet and mobile devices for audiences around the world. WDIG is both a developer of unique new media experiences specifically designed for Internet and mobile media, and a developer of new platforms for distributing content selected from broad, existing entertainment divisions and libraries of The Walt Disney Company (TWDC). Its paramount mission is to provide a safe, secure environment for consumers to experience the Disney brand anytime and anywhere as they inform and entertain themselves, look to join communities with other Disney fans, or shop for products and services. WDIG integrates the unmatched breadth of content with a best-practices approach to Internet and mobile technology and drives multiple revenue streams from premium content offerings, advertising and ecommerce. The business also provides centralized strategic leadership, business execution support and a world-class technology platform for all of the Internet properties of TWDC. WDIG partners with all divisions of the company to execute their mobile and Internet plans and directly operates Disney.com and mDisney worldwide, Disney Family.com, FamilyFun.com, Wondertime.com, Movies.com and the recently acquired Club Penguin (www.clubpenguin.com) which has further strengthened the company’s objective of establishing clear leadership in online virtual worlds for kids and families. In a move that adds to its already strong line-up of family-targeted Web properties, WDIG in December acquired iParenting Media (www. iParenting.com) which features a wide array of professional and user-generated content including thousands of articles and expert Q&A’s and hundreds of active mom message boards. Additionally, the network includes the highly-regarded iParenting Media Awards (www.iParentingMediaAwards.com), the only certified product review and awards program in the industry.
WDIG has built a strong family of branded Web sites and is now taking an aggressive position in the distribution of entertainment content to new platforms as well as embracing new technology trends in online entertainment. Through WDIG, TWDC has become an early leader in wireless and broadband content. In addition, WDIG businesses have all successfully developed and continue to grow multiple revenue streams such as advertising, premium content subscriptions, syndication and e-commerce.
TWDC Internet sites hold the number one position in the sports, kids and family categories. ESPN.com consistently ranks top among sports sites and Disney.com is the number one kid’s entertainment and family community site. Collectively, TWDC’s family of Internet sites rank sixth in online corporate presence.

POSITION SUMMARY
The Walt Disney Internet Group based in Seattle develops software for all of Walt Disney’s internet properties including Disney.com, ESPN.com ABCNews.com to name a few.
We are looking for a highly talented, smart senior software engineer to help implement new features and enhance our marketing email and messaging platform. The person in this role should be comfortable doing design and development from high level functional requirements documents. Day to day responsibilities include designing and developing highly scalable, high performance and highly available software. The person in this role should have expertise in object oriented design and development and have a through and deep understanding of working of the web should be able to create solutions which provide a great end user experience.
This position requires that you be a self starter take initiative and drive tasks to completion with little guidance from your manager. You are also a quick learner and able to adopt new technologies and processes. Primary areas of responsibility include software design, development and unit testing your solutions. Participation in code reviews, functional spec reviews, creation of technical specs and design documents. The person in the role should be able to review and provide feedback during functional and technical spec reviews. He/she should be able to provide support and answer questions about design and implementation from fellow developers, business users and operations.
Responsibilities will also include:
  • Designing, developing, unit testing and implementing complex software from the ground up.
  • Understanding and reviewing functional requirements, writing technical specs, providing clear guidelines to operations for implementing new products and answering/driving solutions to complex technical and implementation issues.
  • Identifying problems and opportunities, and championing solutions
  • Taking leadership in owning features/bugs and driving them to completion
  • Unit testing new features and additions.
  • Researching and evaluating new technologies and solutions
  • Being a technical leader for the team, sharing responsibility with other senior team members to be the go to person for technical problems, questions and suggestions.

    JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
    Task
  • Design, development
  • Maintenance and Support

    QUALIFICATIONS FOR POSITION
  • 5+ years of software design and development
  • Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Math, EE
  • Expert in design and development using Java and other object oriented techniques
  • Ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Ability to work both individually and in a team environment
  • Expert in cross group communication, able to get buyoff from business, operations and peers.
  • Working knowledge of relational databases and SQL server

    SPECIFIC SKILLS REQUIRED
  • Experience using full software lifecycle methodologies
  • Solid written and communication skills should be able to effectively communicate ideas and design in to the team and operations.
  • Demonstrated ability to work cross-group well.
  • Solid experience in creating technical design and developing high performance software using object oriented technologies.
  • Proven track record of having participated in at least one complete successful product life cycle.

    JOB ID: 155220

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    Experience/Skills
    See Above

    Other desired skills:
    engineer, content management, implementation, software development, java, c++,
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