About the position
On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we're reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world's most beloved stories while also transforming our media business for the future. Whether that's evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to enhance flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney's unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world. The Commerce, Growth & Identity (CGI) organization is dedicated to three business-critical areas at Disney that will help transform its media business. We build innovative and cutting-edge capabilities to drive subscriptions, engagement, and monetization across Disney's streaming and digital products. We enable the wide range of Disney brands to connect and engage with consumers through a unified identity, powered by shared services that are trustworthy and seamless to integrate with. As a member on DEE&T Web Commerce team you'll build the core sign-up, purchase, and subscription management experiences of our Web platform.
Responsibilities
- Lead projects where you'll work closely with engineering and product teams to scope and distill product requirements into design and technical specifications.
- Write, maintain, standardize and enforce code quality through test driven development.
- Architect and Design implementations while providing documentation and guidance to other engineers.
- Key contributor to project needs and the evolution of the team's practices; recommending changes in development, coding, maintenance and system standards.
- Applies experiences and exercises judgment in selecting methods and techniques to identify, resolve, and develop solutions to a variety of sophisticated tasks involving architectural application changes.
- Supports and mentors senior developers through code reviews, knowledge-sharing, and technical leadership.
Requirements
- A minimum of 7+ years experience building highly scalable and performant web applications serving millions of users and requests.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
- Experience architecting sophisticated technical changes, to knowledge-share, and get consensus for their solutions.
- Expert knowledge in Javascript, Typescript, and React.
- Proven track record to define and implement api specifications while collaborating with service teams.
- Highly diligent with the ability to see projects from beginning to end.
- Quickly learn, understand, and adapt to new technologies; identifying root causes and driving solutions to complex problems.
- Ability to support and mentor senior developers by building trust, identifying goals, encouraging, instructing, and providing constructive feedback.
Nice-to-haves
- Shipped production level React/Node.js application with high availability and throughput deployed to cloud platforms (e.g. AWS).
- Expert understanding of web accessibility fundamentals.
- Expansive industry knowledge with regard to web standards and new technologies.
Benefits
- A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package.
- Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.
