Senior software engineer - front end

The Walt Disney Company; Seattle, Santa Monica, San Francisco, Glendale (WA, CA, CA, CA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop and enhance user interfaces for its media platforms. The role involves significant expertise in JavaScript and collaboration with creative teams to build optimized, innovative web applications, ensuring a seamless user experience across diverse applications. This position offers the opportunity to significantly impact Disney's technological advancements in storytelling and media delivery.

Benefits

Medical benefits

Competitive salary

Bonus potential

Career advancement opportunities

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in web application development or software engineering.
• Expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript with proficiency in UI stacks.
• Strong understanding of user-agent interoperability and testing methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Design high-performing web applications focusing on UI components.
• Mentor junior staff and promote best practices in engineering.
• Collaborate with product teams to maintain design system standards.

Skills

JavaScript

TypeScript

UI Engineering

REST APIs

Agile

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Senior Software Engineer - Front End

Apply Now Apply Later Job ID 10120432 Location Glendale, California, United States / Santa Monica, California, United States / San Francisco, California, United States / Seattle, Washington, United States Business Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Date posted6月. 13, 2025

Job Summary:

Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses.We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.

Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:

• Building the future of Disney’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.

• Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally.

• Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Ad Platforms is responsible for Disney’s industry-leading ad technology and products – driving advertising performance, innovation, and value in Disney’s sports, news, and entertainment content, across all media platforms.

Job Summary:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will focus on engineering complex user interfaces with rich interactions.You will use your deep UI engineering and creative skills to take an influential role in iterating and continuously deploying new features, functionality, and products to our customers. You will be an important part of a lean DevOps and automation culture where we’ll be looking for you to collaborate with the backend and product teams to drive UI architectures, development standards, and to build optimized experiences for our end-users.

The candidate must be fluent in JavaScript and TypeScript, while also combining expertise with modern reactive JavaScript libraries, tools, and runtimes to engineer abstract, secure, reusable, and testable UI components and applications. This person should also have home-grown Design System experience, having collaborated tightly with creative teams to champion and influence component reusability, maintainability, and configurability across a diverse UI portfolio. The right person should also blend his/her engineering abilities with a sense of pixel-perfect craftsmanship, turning user stories, wireframes, and prototypes into fully functional UI, highly-optimized components and applications.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on UI engineering expertise and collaborate with leads and teams to design, architect, and optimize cloud-native, service-oriented applications and UI components.

• Champion quality engineering practices like linting, unit testing, web UI testing, and pipeline automation to enable continuous deployment.

• Mentor and lead junior staff through reference implementations, code reviews, and defining best practices for engineering.

• Collaborate with product teams to establish and maintain design system standards, processes, and adoption.

• Design high-performing web applications by applying creative problem-solving, logical reasoning, and optimization techniques.

• Investigate and resolve production issues, ensuring seamless functionality from UI to service layer.

• Work closely with project managers to ensure timely, high-quality project deliverables while fostering team alignment and effectiveness.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, with 5+ years of experience in web application development or software engineering using modern frameworks.

• Expertise in JavaScript, TypeScript, and a UI stack (e.g., React, Next.js/Remix.run, TailwindCSS/SCSS), with proficiency in REST patterns, Web APIs, and reactive programming.

• Experience designing performant RESTful services with SQL/NoSQL databases and leveraging tools like GitLab CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes/Helm, and AWS.

• Strong understanding of browser, device, OS compatibility, and user-agent interoperability.

• Proven track record of writing testable UI code and delivering high-quality solutions in Agile and Lean environments.

• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills with attention to detail and a passion for technical craft.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a related technical field.

• Experience in digital advertising, working with vendor teams, and delivering high-quality results.

• Strong curiosity about Disney’s innovative approach to delivering magical experiences.

The hiring range for this position in Seattle, Washington and New York, NY is $145,500 to $195,000 per year. Santa Monica, CA is $138,900 to $186,200 per year, San Francisco, CA is $152,100 to $203,900 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

About Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology:

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

This position is with Disney Streaming Technology LLC , which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology .

Disney Streaming Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.

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