Lead/senior Software Engineer – User Foundations Platform
Disney Streaming
Bangalore, India
On-site
High-scale, data-driven platforms
Scalable backend systems
High-throughput backend services and apis
The User Foundations team builds critical User Capabilities that are shared across all experiences on the streaming services: Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+ etc
Job Summary
The User Foundations team builds critical User Capabilities that are shared across all experiences on the streaming services: Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+ etc.
We are looking for a Senior/Lead Software Engineer to build high-scale, data-driven platforms powering user experiences and real-time systems.
You will work on platforms used at massive scale, solve complex distributed system challenges, and have the opportunity to work backend, frontend, or both with high ownership and impact.
Matching Summary
The User Foundations team builds critical User Capabilities that are shared across all experiences on the streaming services: Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+ etc.
Skills & Requirements
Must-have
high-scale, data-driven platforms
scalable backend systems
high-throughput backend services and APIs
real-time event streaming
user state management
experimentation, segmentation, and personalization platforms
system performance, observability, and reliability
data structures & algorithms
system design
APIs (REST/GraphQL)
Databases (SQL/NoSQL)
Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
CI/CD and version control
Nice-to-have
building end-to-end full-stack applications
data-intensive applications and dashboards
Java, Spring Boot, Kafka
distributed systems & event-driven architecture
high-scale data processing systems
React, TypeScript, state management
data-heavy UIs / dashboards
observability tools
Kubernetes / Terraform / cloud infra
real-time systems
AI-assisted development tools
Key Requirements
5+ years in software engineering
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
Backend services (Java / Node / Python / Go)
Modern frontend apps (React / TypeScript / similar)