Senior Software Engineer - Front End

On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also transforming Disney’s media business for the future. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to maximize flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

The Ad Platforms team is responsible for building and operating the technology that supports Disney’s industry-leading, multi-billion dollar global advertising business. Working across all of Disney’s streaming brands and linear channels, this team’s scope is wide ranging - they impact everything from core infrastructure development that powers Disney’s proprietary ad server, to reimagining viewer-first ad experiences and formats. This team’s award-winning, in-house built technologies are the backbone of Disney’s ad business and a critical element of the Company’s streaming future. 

Job Summary:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will focus on engineering beautiful user interfaces and interactions.  You will use your deep UI engineering and creative skills to take an influential role in iterating and continuously deploying new features, functionality, and products to our customers.  You will be an important part of a lean DevOps and automation culture where we’ll be looking for you to collaborate with the backend and product teams to drive UI architecture, champion UI code quality, and to build optimized experiences for our end-users.  We want someone that has grown up through the web software development ranks - possessing 5+ years’ experience in designing and architecting highly scalable and performant web applications while doing highly creative, detail oriented front-end web development. 

The candidate must be fluent in ES6+ JavaScript/TypeScript, while also combining expertise with modern JavaScript libraries, tools, and runtimes to engineer abstract, secure, reusable, and testable UI components and applications. 

This candidate must be comfortable working with toolchains within the JavaScript ecosystem. Some of the tools we use are WebPack, Babel, ESLint, and TypeScript. The candidate’s ability to adapt, and pick up new technologies is key for this role. The candidate should also have knowledge about creating, versioning and maintaining JavaScript/TypeScript libraries using npm. Knowledge about frameworks, such as: Next.js, Gatsby, or others is a plus. The candidate must have knowledge about API development, understand REST, and be able to work with Node + Express/koa/hapi.

This person should also have home-grown Design System experience, having collaborated tightly with creative teams to champion and influence component reusability, maintainability, and configurability across a diverse UI portfolio.  The right person should also blend his/her engineering abilities with a sense of pixel-perfect craftsmanship, turning user stories, wireframes, and prototypes into fully functional UI components and applications.

While The Walt Disney Company is a large company, ideally, we’d like if you have some previous experience in a U.S. startup environment and be comfortable performing multiple roles.  We strive to get things done quickly, at high quality, and we are committed to the agile methodology. Our work is guided by lean principles (looking at value and looking for waste; not doing anything ‘for the sake of doing it’). 

We’re looking for a passionate, impactful, technical leader who wants to come here to do their very best work and make their mark, add their chapter to the long and storied history of The Walt Disney Company.  Someone who holds themselves and their teammates accountable in a professional, collaborative manner.  A collaborative technologist who seeks to bring the best out in themselves and those around them.  Someone who can provide a fresh perspective and innovative insight to our initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with leads to design and architect cloud native and service-oriented UI components and applications

• Collaborate with team and peers to design complex applications, peer review code, and suggest optimization

• Enable continuous deployment by championing quality engineering practices: linting, unit testing, e2e testing, pipeline automation

• Reason logically and creatively, identifying problems, drawing valid conclusions from the data available, and develop effective solutions while applying creative thinking in the design and development of high performing web applications

• Collaborate with and influence product teams to build and maintain design system standards, processes, and adoption

• Check-in valuable, clean code on a daily basis that adds new features and capabilities

• Create reference implementations for the purpose of mentoring and leading more junior staff (when required)

• Help define engineering best practices and provide technical mentorship

• Investigate and resolve any production issues from end user (UI) to service layer and work to prevent them

• Work with project managers to ensure that all project deliverables are on time and high quality

• Assist in rapid prototyping of design concepts in order to prove and test ideas with end-users

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in web application development or software engineering in a large enterprise environment using modern frameworks

• Have expertise with JavaScript ES6+/TypeScript, native DOM interfaces, WebSocket protocol, REST/SOA patterns.

• Have expertise with programming using a best of breed UI stack: React/React Native, Redux, TypeScript, CSS3/SCSS, Jest, React Testing Library, Selenium/Nightwatch/Cypress, SauceLabs, WebPack, Babel, Node/Express, oAuth 2.0/JWT

• Have a track record of championing quality engineering: be adamant that all UI code is written in a way that can be tested both with unit tests and end-to-end tests

• Have a strong understanding of (and be opinionated about) browsers, devices, OS, and other user agent interoperability and compatibility concerns

• Have hands on DevOps experience with AWS, GitLab CI/D pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes/Helm

• Have experience working with high-performing teams using Agile and Lean methodologies and frameworks

• Be a perfectionist who makes sure every pixel is in the right place

• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Care about your craft and have opinions about the “right” way to do things with technology

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree inn Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience

• Previous work experience in Ad Sales, Traffic or Broadcast Operations application development

• Experience working with vendor teams to deliver high quality results

• Strong curiosity about how Disney delivers the Magic and a desire to be a part of it

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The hiring range for this position in California is $136,038 to $199,870 per year and in New York City is $142,516 to $191,180 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.