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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.\nThe 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.\nHere are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:\nBuilding 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.\nReach, 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. \nInnovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.\nAd Platforms is responsible for Disney’s industry-leading ad technology and products - driving advertising performance, innovation, and value in Disney’s sports, news, and entertainment content, across all media platforms.\nJob Summary:\nAs a Software Engineer on the Ad Platforms team, you will focus on creating complex user interfaces with\nrich interactions in modern reactive JavaScript libraries, tools, and runtimes to engineer and abstract reusable, and testable UI components and applications.\nYou will be an important part of a lean culture where we’ll be looking for you to collaborate with the backend and product teams to build optimized experiences for our end-users. The right person should also blend their engineering abilities with a sense of pixel-perfect craftsmanship, turning user stories, wireframes, and prototypes into fully functional UI, highly optimized components and applications.\nWe’re looking for a passionate, impactful, technical person 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 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.\nResponsibilities and Duties of the Role:\nBuild features, maintain existing code, and fix bugs in JavaScript/TypeScript and React\nImplement best practices to continually increase performance and scalability\nCollaborate with the team to peer review code and suggest optimizations.\nAdvocate for quality through innovation, curiosity and thoughtful debate.\nCollaborate with team and peers to design complex applications, and peer review code\nExplore new technologies, and suggest additions to the existing tech stack\nInvestigate and help resolve any production issues from end user (UI) to service layer and work to prevent them\nWork with project managers to ensure that all project deliverables are on time and high quality\nRequired Education, Experience/Skills/Training:\nBasic Qualifications\nHold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, or another technical field\nHave 3+ years of experience in web application development or software engineering in a large enterprise environment using modern frameworks\nExpertise in HTML & CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript and React Library\nExperience with Tailwindcss or SCSS\nExperience with Node.js and Next.js or Express.js\nExperience with unit testing frameworks (e.g. Jest, Mocha, Vitest).\nExcellent problem-solving skills.\nOrganized, detail-oriented and able to deliver project tasks on time.\nStrong verbal and written communication skills. Highly motivated, self-starting individual.\nHave a track record of championing quality engineering: be adamant that all UI code is accessible and written in a way that can be tested\nHave an understanding of browsers, devices, and other user agent interoperability and compatibility concerns\nHave experience working with high-performing teams using Agile and Lean methodologies and frameworks\nBe a perfectionist who makes sure every pixel is in the right place\nHave excellent verbal and written communication skills\nCare about your craft and have opinions about the “right” way to do things with technology\nPreferred Qualifications\nStrong verbal and written communication skills. 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