Software Engineer II

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

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.

• 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.

Ad 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.

As a Software Engineer on the Ad Platforms team, you will focus on creating complex user interfaces with
rich interactions in modern reactive JavaScript libraries, tools, and runtimes to engineer and abstract reusable, and testable UI components and applications.

You 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.

We’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.

• Build features, maintain existing code, and fix bugs in JavaScript/Type Script and React
• Implement best practices to continually increase performance and scalability
• Collaborate with the team to peer review code and suggest optimizations.
• Advocate for quality through innovation, curiosity and thoughtful debate.
• Collaborate with team and peers to design complex applications, and peer review code
• Explore new technologies, and suggest additions to the existing tech stack
• Investigate and help 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

• Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, or another technical field
• Have 3+ years of experience in web application development or software engineering in a large enterprise environment using modern frameworks
• Expertise in HTML & CSS, JavaScript/Type Script and React Library
• Experience with Tailwindcss or SCSS
• Experience with Node.js and Next.js or Express.js
• Experience with unit testing…