Product Software Engineer II - 1070

As a Senior Software Engineer, 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 we'll be looking for you to collaborate with the backend and product teams to drive UI architectures and development standards and to build optimized experiences for our end-users.

Responsibilities:

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 the 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, and 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 the end user (UI) to the service layer and work to prevent them.

Work with project managers to ensure that all project deliverables are on time and high quality.

Requirements:

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.

Have experience with React and Next.js .

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 an 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/CD pipelines, Docker, and 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:

A master's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a 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.