Front-End Web Tools Engineer (Hybrid)

DreamWorks Animation; Glendale (CA); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid leave

Tuition reimbursement

Discounts and perks

Job summary

DreamWorks Animation in Glendale, CA is seeking a Web Tools Engineer to join the Web Tools development team. This full-time role focuses on building web-based and native applications for production users, delivering rich, visual experiences.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Production, participate in code reviews, drive an iterative, user-centric development process, and provide technical leadership to junior engineers.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in modern front end application features and design goals.
• Experience with modern frameworks, standards, and technologies used in front end web development (e.g. React, Angular, Vue, etc)
• Experience implementing automated unit and End-to-End (E2E) tests
• Strong understanding of responsive design, state management, client-side performance, and REST/WebSocket API integration
• Ability to provide technical leadership to other engineers on the team
• Strong communication, collaboration, and problem solving skills

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Production on the development of web-based and native application front end solutions
• Engage with fellow developers through active participation in code reviews, design discussions, demos, proposals, and rapid prototyping
• Dedication to an iterative development process driven by the goal to continuously improve the user experience across all types of production workflows
• Develop clean, maintainable, and documented solutions
• Collaborate with backend engineering teams through traces, metrics, and requirements to inform development priorities and to focus performance related development
• Deploy applications regularly adhering to studio standards and best practices
• Participate in requirements gathering to inform design and development
• Participate in user observation studies to be regularly evaluating how users work and identifying where improvements can be made
• Follow standard UX design methodologies throughout the development process
• Provide technical and architectural guidance to more junior engineers on team
• Collaborate with production and team’s project manager to devise and maintain feature roadmaps for studio web applications
• Act as a visual translator for complex Pipeline feature sets and requirements

Skills

Frontend frameworks

Automated tests

Responsive design

REST/WebSocket API

Technical leadership

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Engineering

Tools

npm modules

UI component libraries

Job description

DreamWorks Animation in Glendale, CA is seeking a Web Tools Engineer to join the Web Tools development team. This full-time role focuses on building web-based and native applications for production users, delivering rich, visual experiences.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Production, participate in code reviews, drive an iterative, user-centric development process, and provide technical leadership to junior engineers.