Lead Product Software Engineer
The Walt Disney Company3 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$163k - $229k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver agentic analytics experiences, including natural-language dashboard authoring, agent-accessible surfaces, and AI-generated insights with human review.
- Build semantic, machine-readable representations of metrics and product surfaces, along with evaluation and guardrail systems for trustworthy AI output.
- Lead projects from scope and requirements through architecture, implementation, production launch, and ongoing operation.
- Build across the stack using React, Node.js, Python or Java, APIs, and data-integration layers.
- Develop configuration-driven and schema-driven dashboard and metric systems that reduce bespoke coding.
- Optimize rendering, data fetching, caching, request batching, and progressive or streaming rendering for high-cardinality dashboards and large concurrent audiences.
- Maintain code quality through testing, code review, observability, accessible UI, and resilient engineering practices.
- Mentor engineers at all levels, including senior engineers, and drive team standards, technical direction, and cross-team consensus.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience building highly scalable, performant full-stack web applications serving millions of users and requests.
- Regular experience using AI coding agents and agent-driven software development workflows.
- Production track record delivering agentic analytics or data products built on LLMs or agents.
- Expert command of React, TypeScript, and JavaScript, with strong Node.js experience across front-end and back-end systems.
- Experience architecting complex technical changes, defining API specifications, owning projects end to end, and driving problems to resolution.
- Strong performance-engineering fundamentals for data-heavy or high-traffic systems.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and grow engineers, including senior engineers.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software or Electrical Engineering, or a comparable field, and/or equivalent work experience.
- Working proficiency in Python and/or Java for back-end services, data tooling, or integrations is preferred.
- Preferred experience includes production React/Node.js applications on AWS, data visualization at scale, Looker/LookML, Snowflake, Databricks, configuration-driven UI systems, WCAG, and broad web standards knowledge.
Benefits
- Full-time employment.
- Medical, financial, and other benefits may be provided depending on the level and position.
- A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be included in the compensation package.
- The listed hiring ranges apply to New York City and San Francisco, California locations.
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About The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is a diversified entertainment business that produces films and television, operates theme parks and resorts, and runs streaming services including Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+. It earns revenue from subscriptions and advertising, theatrical distribution, licensing and merchandise, and park admissions and experiences. Founded in 1923 and headquartered in Burbank, California, Disney owns brands such as Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and 20th Century Studios and serves audiences worldwide.