Disney Frontend Developer Jobs (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 implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity.

This role is designed to align with the Engineering strategy of standardizing web delivery architectures across the consumer-facing brands' infrastructure layer. By reducing complexity and aligning web stacks across the N&E Alliance, this role enables feature teams to focus on delivering strategic business goals and OKR-driven initiatives. This is a growth role, and we will look to hire someone whom we can mentor into an Architect role. This role will serve as an expert in Web infrastructure components, like DNS, Route53, WAF, reverse caching tools like Varnish and CloudFront, ensuring that engineering eorts drive velocity and innovation. Risk of not filling this role will be tied to failing behind on P&T-level OKRs for reliability.

• Technical Strategy & Planning: Define and execute a long-term technical strategy across all brand sites, with a specific focus on Reliability, Observability, and delivering high quality on business priorities.

• Architecture & Standards: Research, evangelize, and drive the adoption of paved-paths architecture patterns and widespread engineering standards.

• Collaboration & Mentorship: Provide high-level technical guidance and mentoring to senior engineers, conducting eective design reviews and solving advanced technical issues. Collaborate with P5-level Engineering Leads on standardization of the stack.

• System Integrity: Take accountability for fundamental platform performance, scalability, and resiliency of mission-critical cloud-based services.

• Compliance & Risk Management: Influence department-wide technical planning, including managing technical risks for critical site projects.

• Industry Experience: 7+ years of relevant experience as a software engineer or architect.

• Deep Web Expertise: Strong command of web architecture principles, including HTTP, DNS, caching, and API delivery paradigms such as REST and GraphQL.

• Expert Cloud Proficiency: Hands-on experience developing and maintaining high-volume distributed services on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

• Leadership Track Record: Proven ability to drive technical decisions across multiple teams and communicate complex technical tradeos to non-technical stakeholders.

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.

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