Frontend Tools Engineer — Hybrid, UX-Driven Web Apps

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) Matching

Paid Leave

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

NBCUniversal in Glendale seeks an experienced front-end engineer to collaborate across Product, Engineering, and Production on web-based and native front-end solutions. You will participate in design reviews, rapid prototyping, and code reviews to continuously improve user experiences across production workflows.

The role requires 3+ years in front-end development with HTML5, CSS3, TypeScript, JavaScript, and modern frameworks.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of programming in HTML5, CSS3, TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), Node.js, Python, Java, QT.
• Experience with front-end frameworks (React, Angular, Vue, etc).
• Experience with automated unit and End-to-End tests.
• Strong understanding of responsive design and REST/WebSocket API integration.
• Ability to provide technical leadership to engineers.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Production on web-based and native front end solutions.
• Engage in code reviews, design discussions, demos, and rapid prototyping.
• Develop clean, maintainable, and documented front-end code.
• Collaborate with backend teams to inform priorities and performance efforts.
• Deploy applications following studio standards and best practices.
• Gather requirements and participate in user observation to drive UX improvements.
• Follow UX methodologies and provide architecture guidance to junior engineers.
• Help maintain feature roadmaps for studio web applications.
• Translate complex Pipeline feature sets into actionable front-end work.

Skills

HTML5

CSS3

TypeScript

JavaScript

Node.js

Python

Java

QT

React

Angular

Vue

Testing

Responsive design

REST/WebSocket API

Technical leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

GitHub Copilot

npm modules

Job description

NBCUniversal in Glendale seeks an experienced front-end engineer to collaborate across Product, Engineering, and Production on web-based and native front-end solutions. You will participate in design reviews, rapid prototyping, and code reviews to continuously improve user experiences across production workflows.

The role requires 3+ years in front-end development with HTML5, CSS3, TypeScript, JavaScript, and modern frameworks.