Senior Full-Stack Platform Engineer – AI-Driven Web & Edge

The Walt Disney Company; Glendale (CA); On-site; USD 156,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company in Glendale, CA is seeking a senior software engineer to standardize and modernize our guest-facing web delivery across Disney brands, reducing variance between sites and enabling feature teams to ship faster. This role combines front-end, back-end, and delivery-layer work across React/TypeScript, APIs, identity integrations, and edge caching.

You will drive architectures, define paving patterns, mentor engineers, and champion AI-assisted development with strong

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant software engineering or architecture experience.
• Production experience building guest-facing web apps with React and TypeScript.
• Strong web architecture knowledge including HTTP, DNS, caching, and API delivery.
• Hands-on AWS experience with edge delivery and caching.
• Proven track record leading large modernization or standardization efforts.
• Ability to communicate complex tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Full-Stack Engineering: Build, modernize, and own guest-facing web applications end to end.
• Technical Strategy and Planning: Define and execute a long-term technical strategy across brands.
• Architecture and Standards: Drive paved-path patterns and cross-brand standards.
• Modernization and Migration: Lead migrations of legacy stacks without guest-facing regression.
• Developer Experience: Reduce friction with tooling and deployment models.
• AI-Assisted Engineering: Establish standards for AI-assisted development and review.
• Collaboration and Mentorship: Mentor senior engineers and conduct design reviews.
• System Integrity: Ensure performance, scalability, and resiliency of cloud services.
• Compliance and Risk Management: Influence technical planning and risk management.

Skills

7+ years experience

Full-Stack Web Engineering

Web architecture

Cloud proficiency

Legacy modernization

Technical influence

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

React

TypeScript

GraphQL/REST

CloudFront / CDN

Job description

The Walt Disney Company in Glendale, CA is seeking a senior software engineer to standardize and modernize our guest-facing web delivery across Disney brands, reducing variance between sites and enabling feature teams to ship faster. This role combines front-end, back-end, and delivery-layer work across React/TypeScript, APIs, identity integrations, and edge caching.

You will drive architectures, define paving patterns, mentor engineers, and champion AI-assisted development with strong