Sr Product Software Engineer

About the role

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.

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.

Qualifications

• 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.
• You have at least 3 years of experience in agile processes to help the team be effective and efficient.
• Able to demonstrate experience in the full lifecycle of software development. Early stage, maintenance, and end of life.
• An understanding of the trade-offs of using different design patterns, such as MVC or MVVM.
• Knowledgeable in programming paradigms including Object Oriented and Reactive.
• Understanding of iOS/TVOS app development lifecycle.
• Experience in Object Oriented Programming.
• Write efficient, reliable, and maintainable code whether implementing improvements, user-facing features, or fixing defects – through collaboration with senior team members.
• 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 Qualifications

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