Product Software Engineer II

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Technology is at the heart of Disneys 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 Disneys 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 Companys 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 youd love working here:

1. Building the future of Disneys media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media advertising and distribution businesses for years to come.

2. Reach Scale & Impact: More than ever Disneys technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans connections with the companys brands and stories. Disney. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC Newsand many more. These products and brands and the unmatched stories storytellers and events they carry matter to millions of people globally.

3. 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 Disneys industry-leading ad technology and products driving advertising performance innovation and value in Disneys sports news and entertainment content across all media platforms.

Job Summary:

As a Product Software Engineer II 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 well 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. We want someone that has grown up through the web software development ranks - possessing 5 years experience in designing and architecting highly scalable and performant web applications while doing highly creative detail oriented front-end web development.

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 highlyoptimized components and applications.

While The Walt Disney Company is a large company ideally wed like if you have some previous experience in a U.S. startup environment and be comfortable performing multiple roles. We strive to get things done quickly at high quality and we are committed to the agile methodology. Our work is guided by lean principles (looking at value and looking for waste; not doing anything for the sake of doing it).

Were looking for a passionate impactful technical leader 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 collaborative 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

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

Provide hands on UI engineering expertise across various product teams

Collaborate with other leads to design and architect cloud native and service-oriented UI components and applications

Collaborate with team and peers to design complex applications peer review code and suggest optimization

Enable continuous deployment by championing quality engineering practices: linting unit testing web UI testing pipeline automation

Reason logically and creatively identifying problems drawing valid conclusions from the data available and develop effective solutions while applying creative thinking in the design and development of high performing web applications

Collaborate with and influence product teams to build and maintain design system standards processes and adoption

Check-in valuable clean code on a daily basis that adds new features and capabilities

Create reference implementations for the purpose of mentoring and leading more junior staff (when required)

Help define engineering best practices and provide technical mentorship

Investigate and 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

Required Education Experience/Skills/Training:

Hold a Bachelors 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

Have experience with React and

Have experience with JavaScript and TypeScript native DOM interfaces Web APIs the WebSocket protocol and REST patterns

Have experience in designing performant RESTful services leveraging SQL/NoSQL databases

Have a track record of championing quality engineering: be adamant that all UI code is written in a way that can be tested both with unit tests and automated UI tests

Have a understanding of (and be opinionated about) browsers devices OS and other user agent interoperability and compatibility concerns

Have hands on DevOps experience with AWS GitLab CI/D pipelines Docker Kubernetes/Helm

Have experience working with high-performing teams using Agile and Lean methodologies and frameworks

Have excellent verbal and written communication skills

Care about your craft and have opinions about the right way to do things with technology

Preferred Experience/Education/Skills

Masters degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or related technical discipline is highly desirable

Previous work experience in digital advertising

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

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