Senior Product Software Engineer II (1134)

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 build optimised experiences for our end-users.

We want someone who has grown up through the web software development ranks - possessing 7+ 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. The candidate's ability to adapt and pick up new technologies is key to 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, Tailwind, React Query or others, is desirable. The candidate must have knowledge about consuming APIs, understand REST, and be able to work with Node + Express. 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. This candidate must be comfortable working with toolchains within the JavaScript ecosystem. Some of the tools we use are Webpack, Babel, ESLint, and TypeScript.

In addition, the candidate must be proficient with Git source control workflows and using pipelines to build and deploy software. We're looking for a passionate, impactful person who wants to come here to do their very best work and make their mark, adding 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 way. A collaborative technologist who seeks to bring the best out of themselves and those around them. Someone who can provide a fresh perspective and innovative insight to our initiatives.

Responsibilities:

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

Collaborate with peers to design complex applications, peer review code, and suggest optimisation.

Enable continuous deployment by championing quality engineering practices: linting, unit testing, e2e testing, and pipeline automation.

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

Check-in valuable, clean code daily that adds new features and capabilities.

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 of high quality.

Requirements:

Majority Minimum and Preferred. Inclusive of licences/certs (include functional experience as well as behavioural attributes and/or leadership capabilities).

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, and REST/SOA patterns.

Expertise with programming using a best-of-breed UI stack: React/React Query, TypeScript, Tailwind, Jest, React Testing Library, Webpack, Babel, Node/Express, and OAuth.

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, and Kubernetes/Helm.

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

Be a perfectionist who makes sure every pixel is in the right place.

Have excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

Master's degree in a relevant technical discipline.

Previous work experience in ad sales, traffic or broadcast operations and application development.

Strong curiosity about how Disney delivers the magic and a desire to be a part of it.

Experience with React, Typescript, Redux Toolkit, React Query, Jest, React Testing Library, Webpack Build / Bundling Next.js, Express REST / SOA Patterns, CSS, Tailwind, OAuth, OpenID, SSO Git Branching, Merging, Flows, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD Pipelines.

Required Education: A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field.