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# Sr Mgr Product Software Engineering

- **Company:** The Walt Disney Company
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,400.0 - $268,700.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Query Performance, Java (Programming Language), A/B Testing, Amazon Web Services, Business Analytics Applications, Microsoft Azure, Information Systems, Data Warehousing, Distributed Systems, Amazon DynamoDB, Java Virtual Machine (JVM), PostgreSQL, NoSQL, Software Product Management, Release Management, Software Engineering, Data Streaming, Web Services, Google Cloud, Snowflake, Kotlin, Information Technology, Apache Kafka, Graphql, Functional Programming, Databricks
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=dbcb071e04e9d400

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
 * At least 10 years of experience in the software engineering field
 * At least 3 year of experiences in a leadership or management role in technology
 * Experience as a manager of managers, leading agile teams responsible for the delivery of large scale distributed systems.
 * A preference for delegating and empowering your team, but with the ability to be hands on when required.
 * Understanding of high-quality coding, testing, and development practices.
 * Experience in a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) language such as: Java, Scala, or Kotlin.
 * Familiarity with at least one of the following cloud providers: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Compute (GCP), or Microsoft Azure.
 * Comfort working with ambiguous requirements and leading conversations where discordant views are present., * Experience building micro/web services - including REST and GraphQL.
 * Experience or interest in functional programming and its real-world applications - particularly Scala stacks such as Cats Effect and ZIO.
 * Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, particularly PostgreSQL, Aurora, & DynamoDB with experience modelling & optimising query performance.
 * Experience with Kinesis, Kafka, or any other streaming data.
 * Familiarity with data warehouse, pipeline, and analytics platforms such as Databricks or Snowflake.
 * Excellent communication skills, specifically in understanding, framing and simplifying both technical & business requirements.
 * Experience mentoring and coaching more junior engineers on both technical and soft skills.
 * Contributions to the technical community, either through blogs, internal workshops, meetups or conferences.

## Description

As a Senior Software Engineering Manager within the Experimentation & Experience Controls team, you will be leading a team of engineering leads, and the individual contributors that make up the squads within your team. You will be responsible for setting the direction of multiple domains within the WeaponX product, and ensuring successful delivery across agile squads delivering global distributed systems. As part of your role, you will instill a culture of collaboration within the team, keeping them motivated with a commitment to continuous learning and improvement.

You will be empowered to set technical and architectural direction, and to influence the roadmap for your squads and the wider organisation - working in partnership with your peers across Product, Project Management and Engineering. You will collaboratively define the team's OKRs, and ensure our work has a measurable impact on these objectives.

You'll be working on our high-scale in-house A/B testing and Feature Flagging product, capable of serving millions of concurrent requests with single digit millisecond response times. Deeply integrated into our platform to enable experimentation, feature, & release management, and real-time user targeting across every aspect of Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology (DEET).

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

 * Think about the strategic business goals of the organisation, define OKRs, and work to ensure your team's direction aligns with those goals.
 * Lead and mentor multiple leaders, who are each responsible for their own teams and domains. Working alongside your team to maintain an understanding of the technical and architectural problems they are facing.
 * Build a diverse software development team through training, career development, recruiting, and process improvements. Creating an inclusive environment where people can do their best work.
 * Work directly with Business stakeholders and Product Owners to discover business requirements, both functional and nonfunctional.
 * Lead agile squads that are fully responsible for delivering critical global products or services, driving innovation and collaboration within the team.
 * Define and communicate the roadmap and engineering vision for your team. Working in partnership with your peers across Product, Project Management, and Engineering to ensure alignment with the strategic goals of the organisation.
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