Sr Software Engineer

The Walt Disney Company • Glendale, CA • 2h ago

Department/Group Overview:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Technology is at the heart of Disney's past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more - all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney's media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company's media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.

Here are a few reasons why we think you'd love working here:

Building the future of Disney's media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.

Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney's technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company's brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News...and many more. These products and brands - and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry - matter to millions of people globally.

Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Content Platforms & Operations is responsible for the development and ongoing advancement of the technical and operational functions driving the worldwide distribution and monetization of Disney's linear networks and theatrical content. This includes Disney's media supply chain and storage, network and theatrical distribution operations, media localization, network transmission and origination, and more. The global team also plays a critical role as the primary collaboration point for Product & Technology with Disney's EMEA, APAC, and LATAM regional business teams.

Job Summary:

In This role will work within the Front-end Web and Experience team and will be primarily responsible for building out various tools to empower workflows and reporting on the digital supply chain. You'll also be a critical developer building shared libraries and services to empower all the Content Platforms engineering teams. Lastly, you'll build out enhanced AI capabilities to accelerate the development process, taking products faster from ideation and POC phase to quality production level software.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

Creating and maintaining shared JavaScript libraries and UI components. Driving efficiency at scale for front-end development

Implementing business logic of various tool workflows.

Reviewing others JavaScript and TypeScript code.

Acting as a tech leader for various projects and initiatives.

Employ test driven development and agile development practices.

Partnering with product and program partners for delivery

Understand performance and scalability of various systems

Provide technical support for outages and incidents

Other duties as needed to achieve business objectives

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

Basic Qualifications

Mastery of HTTP server and proxy technologies such as HA Proxy, NGINX, Apache

Mastery of ReactJS

Extensive experience with NodeJS, and/or Java/Kotlin programming.

Extensive experience with cloud native technologies such as AWS EC2, Fargate, and Cloudfront.

Experience with frontend web development technologies and principles

Experience with task automation

Ability to research, learn, assess, and evangelize new technologies

Strong communication skills and attention to detail

Driven and self-motivated

Additional desired qualifications

Previous work experience in media distribution

Experience building AI driven software

Experience working with vendor teams to deliver high quality results

Knowledge of performance testing and application profiling

Experience with React Native

Education : BS Computer Science or related technical discipline or its equivalent.

Experience: Minimum 5 experience years in web development or software engineering

TECHATDISNEY

The hiring range for this position in Glendale, CA is $141,900 - $190,300 and for Bristol, CT is $141,900 - $190,300. 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.

Job ID: 10160009

Location: Glendale,California

Job Posting Company: Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

The Walt Disney Company and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, email Candidate.Accommodations@Disney.com with your request. This email address is not for general employment inquiries or correspondence. We will only respond to those requests that are related to the accessibility of the online application system due to a disability.

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