Sr. Staff Product Software Engineer

As a Staff 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, development standards, and to 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 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 homegrown 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, highly optimised components and applications.

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 out the best in themselves and those around them. Someone who can provide a fresh perspective and innovative insight into our initiatives.

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 team and peers to design complex applications, peer review code, and suggest optimisations.
• 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 developing 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 daily that adds new features and capabilities.
• Create reference implementations for 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.

Requirements:

• Hold a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, or another technical field.
• Have 7+ years of experience in web application development or software engineering in a large enterprise environment using modern frameworks.
• Have strong knowledge of fundamental software design patterns.
• Have expertise with JavaScript and TypeScript, native DOM interfaces, Web APIs, the WebSocket protocol, and REST patterns.
• Have expertise with reactive programming using a best-of-breed UI stack: TypeScript, Next.js/Remix. Run, React, Tailwind CSS or SCSS, Redux (or other state management tools), tanstackquery, Vitest, React Testing Library, Cypress, WebPack, Babel, Node.js/Express, and SSO OAuth/JWT.
• 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 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 Experience/Education/Skills

• Master's 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.