Senior Software Engineer

The Walt Disney Company

full-time

Posted on: 9/24/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • New York, North Carolina

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💰 $145,400 - $195,000 per year

Senior

AndroidDaggerJavaKotlin

About the role

Build and maintain the Android, Xbox, and other platform variants of the Disney Media Player
Develop, Debug, Test and Benchmark various components in the software stack
Ensure delivery of latest audio and video standards (Dolby Vision, Dolby ATMOS, DTS:X, HDR10+, etc.) with full fidelity
Collaborate with application development teams, services engineering teams and product management to understand device limitations and requirements
Assist with release process, remote configuration management, and responding to live production issues
Perform online code reviews of pull requests and contribute to testing, telemetry, build and CI strategies
Create and update documentation across the software development lifecycle

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
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
Comfortable using common Android libraries such as Dagger 2 / Hilt, RxJava2, Groupie (preferred)
Familiarity with Android TV / Amazon Fire TV development (preferred)
Familiarity with Microsoft Media Foundation (preferred)
Experience with streaming video, codecs, and DRM (preferred)
Knowledgeable about maintaining a large modularized codebase (preferred)
Experience using performance evaluation tools such as Android Profile (preferred)