Lead Software Engineer - Frontend
Aplicar ahora Aplique más tarde Job ID 10126116 Ubicación Santa Mónica, California, Estados Unidos / Glendale, California, Estados Unidos Business Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Fecha de publicación 16/07/2025Detalles del empleo:
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.
Job Summary:
The Disney Web platform engineering organization delivers app experiences across Hulu, Disney+, ESPN+, and Star+ built on a common platform and shared technology. The Web team is a fast-paced and fast-growing team that shares knowledge and code for initiatives that span Web such as commerce, marketing, media, and infrastructure!
We are seeking individuals with a passion for learning and developing the future of streaming services on the web. As a member on Disney’s Identity Client team you’ll build the core login, registration and user management experiences of our Web platform
As a Lead Software Engineer you serve as a high-level technical resource and “go-to” person, solving sophisticated technical challenges and finding opportunities to improve systems, products, and services.
Responsibilities
- Collaborates closely with engineering and product teams to define and distill product requirements into design and technical specifications, projects, or fixes that scale and perform.
- Leads by example to write, maintain, follow and enforce code quality through test driven development.
- Contributes to core fundamental software project needs and the evolution of the team's practices; recommending changes in development, coding, maintenance and system standards.
- Efficiently supports software throughout the lifecycle. Performs technical maintenance and fixing for components while maintaining clear documentation.
- Applies experiences and exercises judgment in selecting methods and techniques to identify, resolve, and develop solutions to a variety of complex tasks involving architectural application changes.
- Supports and mentors developers through code reviews, knowledge-sharing, and technical leadership.
- Drive the development and organization of complex features touching many different teams to meet business deliverables and needs in a timely manner.
Basic Qualifications:
- 7+ years’ experience building highly scalable and performant production level web applications.
- Demonstrated ability to architect complex technical changes, to knowledge-share, and get buy-in for their solutions. Or 5+ years with a Masters degree.
- BS degree in computer science or related technical field or equivalent 13 years’ work experience.
- Writes well-documented, clear, and robust code.
- Experience working within a modern JavaScript/Typescript application.
- Proven ability to integrate with third party systems (ex: APIs, SDKs, etc.).
- Highly diligent with the ability to see projects from beginning to end; designing workflows and executing tasks.
- Quickly learn, understand, and adapt to new technologies; identifying root causes and driving solutions to highly sophisticated problems.
- Exhibits emotional intelligence, supervising oneself under high pressure situations and meets urgent timelines.
- Ability to support and mentor other developers by building trust, identifying goals, encouraging, instructing, and providing constructive feedback.
- Optimally collaborates and communicates with team members and multi-functional partners, engaging technical topics with clarity.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience shipping a production React/Node.js application
- Experience with developing applications in cloud platforms (e.g. AWS)
- Experience working with Agile methodologies
- Working knowledge of web accessibility fundamentals
The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, CA and Glendale, CA is $152,200 to $204,100 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.
Acerca de Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology:
En Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology, fusionamos imaginación e innovación para reinventar las formas en las que las personas disfrutan e interactúan con los cuentos y los productos más queridos del mundo. Nuestro trabajo tiene un gran alcance y es sumamente sofisticado. Brindamos experiencias increíbles, transformamos el futuro de los medios de comunicación y creamos productos y plataformas que permiten la conexión entre las personas de cualquier lugar del mundo y los cuentos y los deportes que más les gustan.
Disney tiene la capacidad de combinar tecnología de primer nivel con una creatividad inigualable, y eso nos hace únicos. Es la esencia de nuestro pasado, presente y futuro. Somos narradores e innovadores. Creadores y constructores. Artistas e ingenieros.
Acerca de The Walt Disney Company:
The Walt Disney Company, junto con sus subsidiarias y afiliadas, es una empresa internacional diversificada líder en entretenimiento familiar y medios de comunicación que incluye tres segmentos comerciales principales: Disney Entertainment, ESPN y Disney Experiences. Desde sus humildes comienzos como estudio de dibujos animados en la década de 1920 hasta su reconocido nombre en la industria del entretenimiento en la actualidad, Disney continúa con orgullo su legado de crear historias y experiencias de clase mundial para toda la familia. Las historias, los personajes y las experiencias de Disney llegan a consumidores e invitados de todos los rincones del mundo. Con operaciones en más de 40 países, nuestros empleados y miembros del elenco trabajan juntos para crear experiencias de entretenimiento que sean apreciadas a nivel local y global.
Este puesto es en Disney Streaming Technology LLC , que forma parte de una empresa comercial que denominamos Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology.
Disney Streaming Technology LLC es un empleador que ofrece igualdad de oportunidades. Los solicitantes recibirán consideración para el empleo independientemente de su raza, religión, color, sexo, orientación sexual, género, identidad de género, expresión de género, nacionalidad, ascendencia, edad, estado civil, condición de militar o veterano, afección médica, información genética o discapacidad, o cualquier otro fundamento prohibido por la ley federal, estatal o local. Disney defiende un entorno empresarial donde las ideas y decisiones de todas las personas nos ayudan a crecer, innovar, crear las mejores historias y ser relevantes en un mundo en constante evolución.