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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.

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,

Job Summary

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will focus on engineering complex user interfaces with rich 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 architectures, development standards, and to build optimized experiences for our end-users. DESCRIPTION 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 JavaScript and TypeScript, while also combining expertise with modern reactive JavaScript libraries, tools, and runtimes to engineer abstract, secure, reusable, and testable UI components and applications. 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, highly[1]optimized 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 and Duties of the Role:

● Provide hands on UI engineering expertise across various product teams

● Collaborate with other 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, web UI 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

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

● Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, or another technical field

● Have 3+ years of experience in web application development or software engineering in a large enterprise environment using modern frameworks

● Have experience with React and Next.js

● Have experience with JavaScript and TypeScript, native DOM interfaces, Web APIs, the WebSocket protocol, and REST patterns

● Have experience in designing performant RESTful services leveraging SQL/NoSQL databases

● 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 automated UI tests

● Have a 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

● Have excellent verbal and written communication skills

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

Preferred Experience/Education/Skills

● Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related technical discipline is highly desirable

● Previous work experience in digital advertising

● 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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