Product Software Engineering Mgr

Job Posting Title:

Product Software Engineering Mgr

Req ID:

10152053

Job Description:

Ad Platforms is responsible for Disney’s industry-leading ad technology and products – driving 
advertising performance, innovation, and value in Disney’s sports, news, and entertainment 
content, across all media platforms. The Ad Experiences Fleet aims to unleash the magic of 
Disney by leveraging cutting-edge creative tools and fostering creative innovation to craft 
captivating, interactive ad experiences that deeply resonate with consumers and deliver 
superior value for our advertisers while enhancing the viewer experience to maximize revenue.

Job Summary:
As part of our team, you’ll develop and own systems that enable rapid prototyping, testing, and 
validation of interactive ad formats with real viewers and advertisers—fueling innovation and 
revenue growth across our CTV platforms. These experiences are then integrated into creative 
platforms also owned by the Fleet leading to new ad experiences available to all ad tier users. 
As Product Dev Engineering Mgr, you will apply your deep technical knowledge and skills to help 
us deliver scalable, performant, maintainable, loosely coupled, encapsulated, and testable 
software.

Daily, you should bring:
• A willingness and desire to effectively communicate and collaborate across teams and 
systems on architecture, design, and implementation.
• Demonstrated project and team ownership.
• System and API design expertise to guide team members in the the creation of looselycoupled and properly encapsulated micro-services.
• A passion for mentoring, learning, and taking on new challenges.
• A proven ability to work with product teams to translate requirements into well-defined 
technical implementations, as well as the ability to define technical and operational 
metrics to measure system health.
• A keen eye for potential optimizations and enhancements.
• Kindness and pragmatic optimism. 
• A deep understanding of Java and the Software Development Lifecycle.

Responsibilities:
• Guide your team's designs and implementations, ensuring best practices, architectural 
soundness, interoperability, API design, encapsulation, and coupling. 
• Lead by example and always strive to improve code and design for more scalable, 
cleaner, and decoupled implementations.
• Understanding and usage of automated tools (AI) while adhering to company policy. 
• Translating product requirements into implementation tickets, leading execution.
• Defining, reviewing, documenting, estimating LOE, and planning for high-throughput, 
low-latency microservices designs.
• Enhancing system observability with proper metrics, monitors and alerts. 
• Conduct regular one-on-ones and yearly reviews with the team. 
• Gauging team size and capacity against roadmap items.
• Drive the team’s recruitment. 
• Available for On-Call rotations based on the team’s escalation policy and support 
schedule.

Basic Qualifications:
• BS or MS in Computer Science / Engineering or relevant work experience.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience. 
• Advanced proficiency with full stack technologies, including but not limited to 
understanding memory management, multi-threading, profiling, thread pools, 
connection pools, and HTTP protocols.
• Demonstrable analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication, collaboration skills, and a strong teamwork ethic with both 
technical and non-technical peers.
• Demonstrated experience leading a software development team.

Experience with:
• SpringBoot or similar web services frameworks. 
• Non-relational database technologies like DynamoDB. 
• Caching datastores such as Redis, ValKey, or MemCache. 
• Data Streaming Mechanisms such as Apache Kafka or Kinesis. 
• Cloud platforms such as AWS. 
• Modern DevOps tools such as Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Microservice architectures
• Front end technologies and frameworks such as Node, React, NextJS, Express, 
Typescript, Tailwind

Preferred Qualifications: 
• Domain knowledge in the Ad Tech industr

Job Posting Segment:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Job Posting Primary Business:

Ad Platforms

Primary Job Posting Category:

Product Software Engineering

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Bangalore, India

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2026-07-13