Frontend Engineer II, Live Sports & Streaming

Disney Entertainment; Glendale (CA); On-site; USD 119,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus and/or long-term incentive units

Medical benefits

Job summary

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology seeks a Frontend Software Engineer to help build ESPN pages, scoreboards, articles, and live streams. You will solve JavaScript data manipulation challenges and connect components to live APIs, enabling a responsive experience for fans worldwide.

You will collaborate with multiple teams, scale for performance, and contribute ideas to improve services that power ESPN.com and related platforms.

Qualifications

• BS Computer Science or related technical discipline or its equivalent.
• Strong understanding of frontend web development principles and JavaScript.
• Experience with React and NodeJS preferred.
• Knowledge of AWS services is a plus.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Build components and modules used by millions of fans worldwide.
• Connect UI components to live APIs and data streams.
• Collaborate with other teams on performance, scalability, and resilience.
• Develop webview integrations within the ESPN app.
• Support live event coverage and triage issues for global users.

Skills

Frontend web development

JavaScript

Effective communicator

Multi-tasking

Education

BS Computer Science or related technical discipline or its equivalent

Tools

React

NodeJS

AWS (CloudWatch, EC2, S3)

WebPack

CSS preprocessors (Less, Sass, PostCSS)

HTML/CSS

Job description

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology seeks a Frontend Software Engineer to help build ESPN pages, scoreboards, articles, and live streams. You will solve JavaScript data manipulation challenges and connect components to live APIs, enabling a responsive experience for fans worldwide.

You will collaborate with multiple teams, scale for performance, and contribute ideas to improve services that power ESPN.com and related platforms.