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Senior Product Software Engineer (Swift)

The Walt Disney Company · Glendale, CA · 2 mo ago
On-siteEngineering$142k–$190k/yrFull-time

Job Summary

The Disney Media Player Engineering team mission is to design video streaming playback solutions in collaboration with encoding, packaging, and delivery teams to optimize the Disney streaming technology stack for the best streaming experience possible on all platforms. Our team is seeking someone who can fill the role of a Senior Product Software Engineer to create a feature rich standard streaming media playback library on Apple devices. Our intention is to design and develop a layered architecture for media playback which can span all the Disney direct-to-consumer brands like Disney+, ESPN, ABC News, and Hulu. Your focus will be on collaborating with media playback teams on other platforms to ensure a consistent software architecture which delivers a best-in-class streaming experience for your viewers while providing a foundation for media playback innovation at Disney.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement solutions in collaboration with team-members for new features which integrate with various Disney media services and back-ends.
  • Collaborative API design with peer teams on API Services as well as front-end teams which depend on our libraries.
  • Research and development for media playback experiences, integration, and testing.
  • Participate in project estimation and resource planning.
  • Ability to collaborate in a small, productive development team as well as the larger engineering organization.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve issues, problems, and errors encountered across our various platforms.
  • Ability to collaborate in a small, productive development team as well as ability to work independently.
  • Specialize in Apple technologies such as UIKit, SwiftUI, AVKit and StoreKit to build a world-class application.

Required Experience and Skills

  • At least 5 years of industry experience in iOS software development, 3 of which have been spent using Swift.
  • At least 5 years of industry experience implementing complex user interfaces using Apple's UIKit or SwiftUI.
  • Able to demonstrate experience in the full lifecycle of software development, early stage, maintenance, and end of life.
  • Understanding of the trade-offs of using different design patterns, such as MVC or MVVM.
  • Knowledgeable in programming paradigms including Object Oriented and Reactive.
  • Experience in Object Oriented Programming.
  • Experience with unit test frameworks and continuous integration systems.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Motivated self-starter with the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies.

Preferred Experience and Skills

  • Experience with AVFoundation and its ecosystem.
  • Experience with streaming technologies including HLS, MPEG-DASH, Transport Stream, and CMAF.
  • Experience developing applications in all Apple platforms including iPhone, iPad, and TVOS.

Required Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Hiring Range

The hiring range for this position in Los Angeles is $141,900 to $190,300 per year.

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