Senior Software Engineer - Front End
Company: The Walt Disney Company
Location: Bristol
Posted on: May 8, 2024
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Job Description:
On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology,
we're reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for
the world's most beloved stories while also transforming Disney's
media business for the future. Whether that's evolving our
streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering
worldwide advertising and distribution to maximize flexibility and
efficiency, or delivering Disney's unmatched entertainment and
sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to
partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the
world.
The Ad Platforms team is responsible for building and operating the
technology that supports Disney's industry-leading, multi-billion
dollar global advertising business. Working across all of Disney's
streaming brands and linear channels, this team's scope is wide
ranging - they impact everything from core infrastructure
development that powers Disney's proprietary ad server, to
reimagining viewer-first ad experiences and formats. This team's
award-winning, in-house built technologies are the backbone of
Disney's ad business and a critical element of the Company's
streaming future.
Job Summary:
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will focus on engineering
beautiful user interfaces and 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
architecture, champion UI code quality, 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 ES6+ JavaScript/TypeScript, while
also combining expertise with modern JavaScript libraries, tools,
and runtimes to engineer abstract, secure, reusable, and testable
UI components and applications.
This candidate must be comfortable working with toolchains within
the JavaScript ecosystem. Some of the tools we use are WebPack,
Babel, ESLint, and TypeScript. The candidate's ability to adapt,
and pick up new technologies is key for this role. The candidate
should also have knowledge about creating, versioning and
maintaining JavaScript/TypeScript libraries using npm. Knowledge
about frameworks, such as: Next.js, Gatsby, or others is a plus.
The candidate must have knowledge about API development, understand
REST, and be able to work with Node + Express/koa/hapi.
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 components and
applications.
While The Walt Disney Company is a large company, ideally, we'd
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').
We're 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
Collaborate with 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, e2e 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
Assist in rapid prototyping of design concepts in order to prove
and test ideas with end-users
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems,
Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable
field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
Minimum of 5 years of experience in web application development or
software engineering in a large enterprise environment using modern
frameworks
Have expertise with JavaScript ES6+/TypeScript, native DOM
interfaces, WebSocket protocol, REST/SOA patterns.
Have expertise with programming using a best of breed UI stack:
React/React Native, Redux, TypeScript, CSS3/SCSS, Jest, React
Testing Library, Selenium/Nightwatch/Cypress, SauceLabs, WebPack,
Babel, Node/Express, oAuth 2.0/JWT
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 end-to-end tests
Have a strong 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
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
Preferred Qualifications
Master's degree inn Computer Science, Information Systems,
Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable
field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
Previous work experience in Ad Sales, Traffic or Broadcast
Operations application development
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
#DISNEYTECH
The hiring range for this position in California is $136,038 to
$199,870 per year and in New York City is $142,516 to $191,180 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.
Job ID: 10082864
Location: Bristol,Connecticut
Job Posting Company: Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology
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
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with your request. This email address is not for general employment
inquiries or correspondence. We will only respond to those requests
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system due to a disability.
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