Sr. Software Engineer

Posted 3 Days Ago
Seattle, WA
Hybrid
136K-200K Annually
Senior level
AdTech • Digital Media • News + Entertainment
Create the Tech Behind Our Magic
The Role
The Sr. Software Engineer will build and maintain initiatives to enhance the messaging portal, improve codebase maintainability, mentor junior developers, provide on-call support, and collaborate with cross-functional teams on technical decisions. This role focuses on delivering high-quality projects and driving customer-centric messaging experiences.
Summary Generated by Built In

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology:
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 Disney's 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 maximize 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.
A few reasons why we think you'd love working for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology:

  • Building the future of Disney's media business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney's media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
  • Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day - from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.
  • Innovation: We develop and execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.


Lifecycle Messaging:

  • Lifecycle Messaging's mission is to create and deliver scaled, customer centric multi-channel messaging experiences across the customer journey that drive impact in the form of engagement, revenue growth, customer delight & brand trust. Our platform, the Unified Messaging Platform helps us to inform, engage, and delight our guests.


Job Summary:

  • Build and maintain product-driven initiatives to improve and expand the messaging portal.
  • Enhance/improve the underlying codebase to be extensible, reusable, and maintainable.
  • Be involved in code reviews and architecture reviews for team members.
  • Provide on-call support for critical services on a rotational basis.
  • Own and deliver projects end-to-end with high quality and a robust architecture.
  • Communicate and work with multi-functional business partners, including product, design, and backend engineering.
  • Collaborate and mentor more junior developers, help them and yourself grow as developers and people.
  • Ramp up on new domains and technologies.


Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

  • Build and maintain product-driven initiatives to improve and expand the messaging portal, Enhance/improve the underlying codebase to be extensible, reusable, and maintainable.
  • Collaboration and mentorship of more junior developers.
  • On-call support.
  • Collaborate with your squad, Product Managers, Designers, QA, Operations, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and articulate technical decisions and outcomes.


Basic Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of relevant work experience.
  • Front-end web development experience working with Typescript, React, HTML5, CSS3, SASS/LESS, and vanilla JS.
  • Experience working collaboratively across development, design, product, marketing, and more.
  • Experience using design tools for development purposes (such as Figma and Sketch).
  • Proven ability to mentor more junior developers.
  • Strong attention to detail, excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
  • Experience working with localization and/or internationalization.
  • Solid understanding of A/B experimentation.


Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience shipping entertainment/streaming media applications/platforms.
  • Experience building messaging experiences, especially Email and Push.
  • A history building internally scalable UI systems.


Required Education:

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


The hiring range for this position in Seattle or New York is $145,400 to $195,000 per year, in Santa Monica is $ 138,900 to $186,200 per year, and in San Francisco is $152,100 to $203,900 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

Top Skills

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React
Typescript

What the Team is Saying

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HQ: Burbank , CA
200,000 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 1923

What We Do

Innovation is in the DNA of The Walt Disney Company. We not only embrace it, we translate it into experiences you can see and feel. From our groundbreaking work in advanced audio-animatronic robots featured in the Disney theme parks, to streaming services that are redefining entertainment, to inventing tools to create new worlds in our films — The Walt Disney Company has spent nearly 100 years immersing audiences in new and stunning experiences using groundbreaking technology. When next generation technology meets talented people ready to tackle challenges still to be imagined, anything can happen.

Why Work With Us

Every technologist at Disney is essential to helping us create unforgettable experiences and innovative products. Our teams constantly spearhead innovation by incubating cutting-edge ideas into production-ready solutions. At Disney, you’ll make an impact you can see and feel with a team that both supports and challenges your thinking.

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