Disney Frontend Developer Jobs in California (NOW HIRING)

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 execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.

The Disney Growth, Commerce, and Identity Experience organization powers the foundational user experiences across Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+, and other Walt Disney Company business units. These experiences are built on a shared identity platform that enables secure, seamless authentication, registration, and account management for hundreds of millions of users globally.

TheIdentity Client Experience teamowns and evolves the critical web-based identity surfaces that serve as the front door to Disney's streaming ecosystem - including login, registration, account management, profile management, and identity verification flows. These systems are essential to enabling secure access, supporting commerce and marketing initiatives, and delivering trusted, scalable user experiences.

We are seeking aProductSoftware Engineer IIwith deep webexpertiseand a passion for building secure, scalable, andhighly reliableclient experiences. In this role, you will design and develop core identity experiences used across Disney's streaming platforms, collaborate closely with cross-functional partners, and help shape the future of identity on the web.

Why Join the Identity Client Experience Team

• Build the identity platform poweringall ofthe Walt Disney Company including Disney+,Huluand ESPN

• Work on systems that serve hundreds of millions of users globally

• Solve complex engineering challenges at massive scale

• Influence the architecture and evolution of Disney's identity ecosystem

• Collaborate with world-class engineers across streaming, commerce, and platform teams

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, andmaintainscalable, secure, and high-performance identity experiences including login, registration, account management, and profileflowsacross Disney's web platforms.

• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to translate business and user requirements into scalable technical solutions.

• Lead the development and delivery of complex features spanning multiple systems and teams, ensuring reliability, performance, and maintainability.

• Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code while enforcing engineering best practices, including automated testing and code reviews.

• Serve as a technical leader and mentor, supporting team members through guidance, knowledge sharing, and constructive feedback.

• Drive improvements in engineering standards, tooling, architecture, and development processes to enhance team productivity and system quality.

• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues,identifyingrootcausesand implementing long-term solutions.

• Contribute to architectural decisions and help evolve the identity platform to support scale, security, and future growth.

• Partner with cross-functional teams across commerce, streaming, security, and platform engineering to deliver cohesive identity solutions.

• Support software throughout its lifecycle, including deployment, monitoring, observability, and continuous improvement.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience

• Minimum of 3 years of related work experience

• Basic foundational programming knowledge ofweb basedapplications

• Experience working within a modernJavascriptworkflow

• Proven ability to learn, understand, and adapt tonew technologies

• Self-learner whoidentifiesroot causes and drives solutions

• Ability to write code that is easy to read and understand that follows standard methodologies

• Highly thorough with the ability to clearly detail work

• Exhibits emotional intelligence, managing oneself under high pressure/stressful situations and meets urgent timelines

• Optimally collaborates and communicates with team members

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

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