Manager, Software Engineering (Full Stack), Ad Platforms

Overview

The Ad Platform Engineering organization within Disney Entertainment and ESPN is responsible for building, enhancing and maintaining the high-performance, distributed, microservice-based Digital Advertising Platform. The platform handles qualification, delivery, and tracking of Digital Advertising campaigns (Video on Demand, Live TV, and innovative interactive ads) across Disney online properties, including Hulu, Disney+, and ESPN+.

The Disney Campaign Manager team builds Disney’s self-service advertising portal, empowering advertisers with seamless access to premium streaming inventory across Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+. It enables users to set up, launch, and optimize campaigns in real time through an intuitive dashboard offering precise targeting, flexible budgeting, and performance analytics.

As Manager of Software Engineering, you will apply deep technical knowledge to deliver scalable, performant, maintainable, loosely coupled, encapsulated, and testable software.

Key daily expectations :

• A willingness and desire to effectively communicate and collaborate across teams and systems on architecture, design, and implementation
• Demonstrated project ownership
• System and API design and implementation best practices to guide and mentor, for example, microservice encapsulation and loose coupling
• A passion for mentoring, learning, and adapting to a challenging and complex landscape
• The ability to work with product teams to translate requirements into well-defined technical implementations, and to define technical and operational metrics to measure system health
• A keen eye for potential optimizations and enhancements
• Kindness and pragmatic optimism
• A deep understanding of Java and the SDLC
• Experience building internal and external performant web-based UIs
• Detailed understanding of database design and usage, including ORM
• Your unique perspective and experience

Responsibilities

Basic Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Required Education

The hiring range for this position in Glendale, California is $167,700 to $224,900 per year, and Santa Monica, California is $167,700 to $224,900 per year. The base pay offered will consider internal equity and may vary based on geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A bonus and / or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and other benefits, dependent on level and position offered.

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