Hybrid Front-End Tools Engineer for Production

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision insurance

401(k)

Paid leave

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

DreamWorks Animation seeks a Software Engineer to join the Web Tools team, building web-based and native apps for Production Users. You’ll collaborate across Product, Engineering, and Production to deliver high-quality interfaces, participate in code reviews, and drive UX improvements in an iterative development process.

We value strong frontend fundamentals, modern frameworks, automated testing, and leadership for junior engineers.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of programming experience with HTML5, CSS3, TS/JS and server-side languages.
• Proficiency in modern front end features and design goals.
• Experience with front end frameworks (React, Angular, Vue).
• Experience implementing automated unit and E2E tests.
• Strong understanding of responsive design, state management and REST/WebSocket APIs.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Production on web front end solutions.
• Engage in code reviews, design discussions, demos, proposals, and prototyping.
• Iteratively improve user experience across production workflows.
• Develop clean, maintainable, and documented solutions.
• Collaborate with backend teams to align requirements and performance.
• Deploy applications following studio standards and best practices.
• Participate in requirements gathering to inform design.
• Observe users to identify improvements and usability gains.
• Follow UX design methodologies throughout development.
• Provide technical leadership to junior engineers.
• Help maintain feature roadmaps for studio web applications.
• Act as a visual translator for Pipeline feature sets and requirements.

Skills

HTML5

CSS3

TypeScript

JavaScript

Node.js

Python

Java

QT

React

Angular

Vue

Education

Bachelor’s in Computer Science or related field

Tools

React

Angular

Vue

Job description

DreamWorks Animation seeks a Software Engineer to join the Web Tools team, building web-based and native apps for Production Users. You’ll collaborate across Product, Engineering, and Production to deliver high-quality interfaces, participate in code reviews, and drive UX improvements in an iterative development process.

We value strong frontend fundamentals, modern frameworks, automated testing, and leadership for junior engineers.