The Walt Disney Company

Sr Product Software Engineer (News Front-End)

The Walt Disney Company
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Base Salary

$149k - $199k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship product-level features for ABC News and ABC-owned television station websites.
  • Design and implement scalable solutions, technical specifications, refactors, and architectural improvements.
  • Improve development, coding, maintenance, system, performance, accessibility, observability, and developer-experience practices.
  • Review peer code for design, testability, and usability and uphold high software quality standards.
  • Identify and lead investments that improve products, systems, and services.
  • Serve as a technical resource and mentor for less experienced engineers through reviews, design discussions, on-call rotations, and one-on-one guidance.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of relevant professional software engineering experience.
  • Extensive experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Node.js, and modern front-end web development technologies.
  • Experience owning products and features through the full software development lifecycle, including deployment and ongoing support.
  • Experience designing, building, and delivering scalable applications for high-traffic environments.
  • Strong commitment to automated testing, code reviews, and continuous improvement of engineering standards.
  • Ability to research, analyze, and solve complex technical challenges, with strong communication and attention to detail.
  • Preferred: mentoring and technical leadership experience on complex projects.
  • Preferred: experience with consumer-facing web applications, CMS and content delivery pipelines, A/B testing, personalization, recommendation engines, feed-driven interfaces, performance optimization, and architectural strategy.
  • Preferred: experience with AWS or another major cloud provider, modern deployment tooling, web accessibility standards, and monitoring or observability tools such as New Relic or Datadog.
  • Preferred: comfort using AI-powered development tools and coding assistants while validating outputs and ensuring code quality.
  • Required BS in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent.

Benefits

  • Full-time position based in New York, NY.
  • Medical, financial, and other benefits may be included depending on the level and position.
  • Bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package.

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