Product Software Engineer II

Build systems that power ESPN fantasy at massive scale. On the Fantasy Platform Engineering team at Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology, you will deliver efficient back-end software, support live operations, and collaborate with client stakeholders and fellow engineering teams to help move new and existing features forward.

Location: Bristol, CT (onsite)
Salary: USD 119,200 - 159,800 per yearly

What you’ll do

As a Product Software Engineer II, you’ll write and improve production-ready code for the Fantasy Platform Engineering team, where live reliability and performance matter. You will also help diagnose and resolve platform issues that arise across company systems.

• Write efficient, reliable, and testable code based on provided requirements.
• Design and implement automated code and system tests.
• Review, analyze, and optimize code for readability, reliability, and performance.
• Instrument, monitor, and support live operations for systems your team owns.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues, problems, and errors encountered across company platforms.

Fantasy Platform Engineering team impact

The team builds and evolves systems that power ESPN games including Fantasy League Manager (Fantasy Football, Baseball, Basketball, Hockey) and Prediction Games (Tournament Challenge, NFL Pick ‘Em, etc). These experiences scale to millions of individual users.

You’ll contribute by delivering efficient back-end code on new and existing features while working directly with client-side stakeholders and other engineering teams.

Core requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
• 3+ years of relevant experience.
• Contribute and review code, set standards, and work with engineers to ensure product and design specifications are met.
• Test code through multiple approaches, including unit tests, integration tests, and performance tests.
• Maintain a deep understanding of core systems and how they interact with upstream and downstream dependencies.
• Support fundamental platform performance, scalability, and resiliency.
• Contribute to cross-functional troubleshooting of complex issues as needed.

Technologies

• Java
• Spring Framework
• Maven
• AWS

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Java, Spring Framework, and Maven dependency management.
• Understanding of API design and distributed web service architecture.
• Expertise across the full application development lifecycle, including unit testing practices, code reviews, and documentation.
• Awareness of dev-ops workflows and related technologies.
• Experience leveraging cloud services, preferably within AWS.
• Ability to learn and adapt to new technologies, and to articulate complex ideas to influence others through well-reasoned explanations.
• Comfort working with engineers across different experience levels.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience using modern AI-assisted development tools such as Copilot, Cursor, or similar to improve code quality, accelerate development, and enhance documentation.