Engineering Manager, Billing

As a manager in Growth Life, you will help cultivate an environment where people can do their best work through critical thinking, coaching, and career advocacy. You will lead the delivery and quality of your team’s commitments to its customers and collaborate across the organization to ensure appropriate prioritization. You should have a passion for engineering mentorship, team building, and empathy-driven development.Within Growth Life the billing team is responsible for ensuring that users are billed correctly and efficiently across all product lines of Disney Streaming, Hulu, Disney plus, ESPN plus, etc. You have a great opportunity to have an impact on the design of high traffic, multi-region web services across all the engineering teams at Disney Streaming.Responsibilities : Lead a team of hardworking engineers that are crafting, building, and maintaining large-scale backend service.This is a hands-on leadership role. Work closely with senior engineers of your team, to design the next generation of Disney Streaming's billing platform. You will be encouraged to help your team with the development and design of their critical projects.Build a best-in-class software development team through a combination of training, career development, recruiting, and process improvement; to ensure that all software conforms to the highest quality standards.Direct daily operations of the team - carrying out priorities, monitoring and analyzing operational efficiency metrics and ensuring problems are identified and solved quickly and efficientlyFoster a culture that uses metrics to make informed decisions and guide change; balance architectural and design considerations such as performance, scalability, reusability and flexibility issues.Collaborate with product managers and other business partners to achieve functionality & promote your team’s work across all organizations.Collaborate with your peer leadership team in this space to design and architect robust API contracts and scalable microservices for internal clientsContribute to the design and delivery of an end to end solution supporting our subscriber journey leading to the best experience for our internal technical & business partners as well as our Hulu customersMentor junior engineers on the teamBe the go-to person on technical questionsBasic Qualifications : BS or MS in Computer Science or a related degree5+ years of software engineering experience2+ years as a people manager, leading engineering teamsAn understanding of organizational strategy and engineering growthEmbrace engineering best practicesProgramming skills in any main programming languageExperience building high performance backend systems in large scaleExcellent communication, collaboration skills and a strong teamwork ethicQuality-first mindset with focus on test automation and CI/CDThe ability to jump into a project and contribute immediately to both architecture and implementationStrive for excellence and strong analytical skillsPreferred Qualifications: Prior experience working with AWSPrior experience working with Scala 808854