Software Engineer II
Disney Entertainment
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Job summary
Disney Entertainment is seeking a Software Engineer for the Ad Platforms team to craft complex UI using modern React and TypeScript. You’ll work with backend and product teams to deliver optimized experiences with pixel-perfect precision and accessible UI practices.
Join a lean, collaborative culture focused on quality, performance, and impactful engineering within Disney’s media ecosystem. This role offers growth in an iconic, storytelling-driven environment.
Qualifications
- Holding a Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
- 3+ years in web app development or software engineering in a large enterprise.
- Expertise with HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript and React.
- Experience with Tailwindcss or SCSS.
- Experience with Node.js and Next.js or Express.js.
- Experience with unit testing frameworks (Jest, Mocha, Vitest).
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
- Ability to deliver tasks on time in a collaborative team.
Responsibilities
- Build features and fix bugs in JavaScript/TypeScript and React.
- Improve performance and scalability with best practices.
- Peer review code and propose optimizations.
- Advocate for quality, accessibility, and testability of UI code.
- Collaborate to design complex applications and review code.
- Explore new technologies and contribute to the tech stack.
- Investigate production issues from UI to service layer and resolve them.
- Coordinate with project managers to meet deadlines and quality targets.
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Job description
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.
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.
As a Software Engineer on the Ad Platforms team, you will focus on creating complex user interfaces with
rich interactions in modern reactive JavaScript libraries, tools, and runtimes to engineer and abstract reusable, and testable UI components and applications.
You will be an important part of a lean culture where we’ll be looking for you to collaborate with the backend and product teams to build optimized experiences for our end-users. The right person should also blend their engineering abilities with a sense of pixel-perfect craftsmanship, turning user stories, wireframes, and prototypes into fully functional UI, highly optimized components and applications.
We’re looking for a passionate, impactful, technical person who wants to come here to do their very best work and make their mark, add their chapter to the long and storied history of The Walt Disney Company. Someone who holds themselves and their teammates accountable in a professional, collaborative manner. A technologist who seeks to bring the best out in themselves and those around them. Someone who can provide a fresh perspective and innovative insight to our initiatives.
Build features, maintain existing code, and fix bugs in JavaScript/TypeScript and React
Implement best practices to continually increase performance and scalability
Collaborate with the team to peer review code and suggest optimizations.
Advocate for quality through innovation, curiosity and thoughtful debate.
Collaborate with team and peers to design complex applications, and peer review code
Explore new technologies, and suggest additions to the existing tech stack
Investigate and help resolve any production issues from end user (UI) to service layer and work to prevent them
Work with project managers to ensure that all project deliverables are on time and high quality
Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, or another technical field
Have 3+ years of experience in web application development or software engineering in a large enterprise environment using modern frameworks
Expertise in HTML & CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript and React Library
Experience with Tailwindcss or SCSS
Experience with Node.js and Next.js or Express.js
Experience with unit testing frameworks (e.g. Jest, Mocha, Vitest).
Excellent problem-solving skills.
Organized, detail-oriented and able to deliver project tasks on time.
Strong verbal and written communication skills. Highly motivated, self-starting individual.
Have a track record of championing quality engineering: be adamant that all UI code is accessible and written in a way that can be tested
Have an understanding of browsers, devices, and other user agent interoperability and compatibility concerns
Have experience working with high-performing teams using Agile and Lean methodologies and frameworks
Be a perfectionist who makes sure every pixel is in the right place
Have excellent verbal and written communication skills
Care about your craft and have opinions about the “right” way to do things with technology
Strong verbal and written communication skills. Highly motivated, self-starting individual.
Excellent collaboration skills and ability to use standard software development lifecycle (SDLC) tools such as Jira and Confluence, version control systems (e.g. Git), and CI/CD tools and pipelines.
Experience working with vendor teams to deliver high quality results
Strong curiosity about how Disney delivers the Magic and a desire to be a part of it
The hiring range for this position in Glendale, CA is $119,200.00 - $159,800.00 per year, in San Francisco, CA is $130,600.00 - $175,100.00 per year, in Seattle, WA is $124,900.00 - $167,400.00 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.
This position is with Disney Entertainment & Sports LLC, which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology.
Disney Entertainment & Sports LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. 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.
The Walt Disney Company and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, visit the Disney candidate disability accommodations FAQs (https://support.disneycareers.com/hc/en-us/sections/32131060143380-Candidate-Disability-Accommodations-FAQs) . We will only respond to those requests that are related to the accessibility of the online application system due to a disability.
Having technical issues? View the FAQs for help. (https://support.disneycareers.com/hc/en-us)
The Walt Disney Company is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Disney fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.
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