Principal Engineering Manager @ The Walt Disney

Job Description

About the team

Team - Monetisation:

We have built one of India s largest, highly scalable, and distributed Subscription Platforms in the OTT landscape. Our Ad Platform rides on top of this scale and is among the top Video Advertising Platforms in India. Our aspiration is to make it the largest Video Advertising Platform because no one knows Video-On-Demand, Live Sports and Ads like our Ad Tech team does. We have the opportunity to penetrate countries outside of India where India s freemium model will work just like a charm. The Disney+ Hotstar MarTech platform has replaced a globally well-known third-party vendor in this segment to build a more customized and more cost-effective platform in-house to reach, engage and grow our own customer base manifold.

Key Responsibilities

• Vision: Partner with Product and Business teams to lead innovation and set the roadmap for the short and long term charter for Hotstar s AdTech.

• Tech: Work closely with the architects and senior engineers to build the best and cost efficient AdTech ecosystem that wows the Advertiser as much as it engages the end user of our platform.

• Execution: Lead the overall software development lifecycle. Own the execution of the AdTech charter against project plans and delivery commitments.

• People: Plan and grow the AdTech engineering charter, mentor, and build a best-of-class engineering team.

Skills & Attributes for Success

• Exposure to Advertising tech especially in the Video Advertising, Programmatic and Performance world is a big plus

• Proficient with either Java or GoLang

• 7+ years of experience in software development with strong expertise in Java with micro web frameworks like Play, Spring MVC, reactive programming

• At least 5 years managing software development teams including hands-on architectural or distributed systems experience

• Exposure in building RESTful APIs with monitoring(New Relic, statsd, graphite), fault tolerance and metrics

• Experience with MySQL, NoSQL (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB)

• Experience in server-side services using ElasticSearch, KafkaExperience with AWS stack.

• Experience with CI/CD processes.

• An entrepreneurial spirit combined with strong programming and product management skills

Preferred Education & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with 15-20 years of experience in designing and developing complex, interactive consumer applications

About Us

Disney+ Hotstar is leading the way as the most significant and smartest video platform in the country, reaching over 300 million users today. We have set a number of world records along the way - including the highest concurrent viewership at 25.3 million during the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019.

Disney+ Hotstar today is the one-stop destination for all your entertainment needs - from Live Sports, Indian, and International Shows, and Movies to all Disney content, including Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic, and Disney+ Originals. We re looking for the brightest minds to build the future of TV with us.

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