Senior Software Engineer - Identity & Client Experience

The Walt Disney Company; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 142,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunities

Medical benefits

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company Growth, Commerce, and Identity Experience organization powers foundational user experiences across Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+, and other Disney business units. These experiences are built on a shared identity platform enabling secure authentication, registration, and account management for hundreds of millions of users globally.

The Identity Client Experience team owns and evolves the client‑side governance platform powering trusted, compliant, and consistent user experiences

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of hands‑on software engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to write clean, maintainable, scalable code.
• Proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript; experience building client‑side features in web or device environments.
• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs and working with state management patterns.
• Familiarity with authentication and authorization concepts.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and deployment tooling (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or equivalent).
• Experience with testing frameworks for unit, integration, and/or end‑to‑end coverage.
• Strong cross‑functional communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, development, and successful deployment of medium-to-large size software solutions, ensuring performance, quality, scalability, and security.
• Drive software engineering best practices, including design, code quality, security and testability within the team.
• Exhibit deep and broad technical expertise, with hands‑on proficiency in key functional/specialty areas.
• Serve as a primary technical resource for the team, offering guidance on technical issues and new feature development.
• Participate in the design and delivery of features that integrate with LLM‑backed services, partnering with senior AI‑application engineers on the team.
• Help establish and refine team practices for using AI coding tools effectively and responsibly in day‑to‑day development.
• Conduct thorough code reviews, focusing on requirements, design and coding standards, readability, testability, and optimization.
• Mentor and guide the work of less experienced engineers to develop solutions.
• Identify opportunities and recommend the development or implementation of solutions to improve products or processes with each iteration.
• Document technical details for assigned features, fixes, and projects.

Skills

5+ years of hands-on software engineer

TypeScript/JavaScript

RESTful APIs

Authentication/Authorization

CI/CD pipelines

Testing frameworks

Cross-functional communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field

Tools

React

GitHub Actions

Web technologies

Job description

The Walt Disney Company Growth, Commerce, and Identity Experience organization powers foundational user experiences across Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+, and other Disney business units. These experiences are built on a shared identity platform enabling secure authentication, registration, and account management for hundreds of millions of users globally.

The Identity Client Experience team owns and evolves the client‑side governance platform powering trusted, compliant, and consistent user experiences