Engineering Manager, JavaScript Media Player

The Walt Disney Company; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 241,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Bonus & long-term incentives

Job summary

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology seeks an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead the JavaScript Disney Media Player across web and connected-device surfaces. You will guide architecture, delivery, and operational excellence for playback across Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+, and ABC News.

The role emphasizes leadership, clarity in ambiguity, and collaboration with Product, Design, TPM, and platform teams to align priorities and raise engineering standards.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including leading engineering teams.
• 5+ years of hands-on production experience with JavaScript and modern web application development.
• Experience building or supporting media playback technologies in web-based or connected-device environments.
• Experience leading teams through full software delivery lifecycle including development, release, and operations of consumer-facing apps.
• Experience owning application availability, reliability, and performance in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the JavaScript Disney Media Player engineering team through hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development.
• Own execution of the team roadmap, balancing feature delivery, technical investment, platform reliability, and operational excellence.
• Provide technical leadership for the player stack, architecture decisions, and engineering best practices in partnership with senior engineers.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, TPM, and platform teams to align priorities, manage dependencies, and deliver high-quality customer experiences.
• Foster a culture of accountability, inclusion, continuous learning, and data-driven decision making to improve playback quality, performance, and reliability across devices.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

JavaScript

Job description

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology seeks an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead the JavaScript Disney Media Player across web and connected-device surfaces. You will guide architecture, delivery, and operational excellence for playback across Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+, and ABC News.

The role emphasizes leadership, clarity in ambiguity, and collaboration with Product, Design, TPM, and platform teams to align priorities and raise engineering standards.