Sr Product Software Engineer (News Front-End)

The Walt Disney Company • New York, NY

8d • Onsite

About The Position

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization focused on building and advancing the technological backbone for Disney’s media business. The team combines technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive innovation and scalability. This role is within the Product Engineering team, which is responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms, including product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, and the engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant professional software engineering experience.
• Extensive experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Node.js, and modern front-end web development technologies and best practices.
• Proven ability to own products and features throughout the full software development lifecycle, from design and implementation through deployment and ongoing support.
• Experience designing, building, and delivering scalable features and applications that support high-traffic environments.
• Strong commitment to software quality, including automated testing, code reviews, and continuous improvement of engineering standards.
• Demonstrated ability to research, analyze, and develop solutions for complex technical challenges.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a strong attention to detail.
• Highly motivated, self-directed, and results-oriented with a proactive approach to problem-solving.
• BS Computer Science or related technical discipline or its equivalent.

Nice To Haves

• Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership throughout the successful delivery of complex projects.
• Proven experience building and scaling consumer-facing web applications that serve large and diverse user bases.
• Experience integrating with content management systems (CMS) and content delivery pipelines.
• Familiarity with A/B testing, experimentation frameworks, and data-driven decision-making practices.
• Experience developing personalized user experiences, recommendation engines, and feed-driven interfaces.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction, drive architectural improvements, and contribute to long-term engineering strategy.
• Experience optimizing application performance, scalability, and overall user experience.
• Comfortable leveraging AI-powered development tools and coding assistants to enhance productivity, with strong judgment in validating outputs, ensuring code quality, and guiding others on effective adoption.
• Experience with AWS or another major cloud provider.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern deployment tooling.
• Experience with Web accessibility (WCAG) standards.
• Experience with Monitoring/observability tools such as New Relic or Datadog.
• Experience with high-traffic consumer products.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship product-level features for ABC News and the ABC OTV station sites.
• Build solutions for problems of sizeable scope and complexity.
• Develop specifications and technical designs for new features, refactors, and architectural improvements.
• Contribute to the evolution of our engineering practices by recommending improvements to development, coding, maintenance, and system standards.
• Review code from peers for design, testability, and usability.
• Identify opportunities to improve systems, products, and services, proposing investments in tooling, performance, accessibility, observability, or developer experience and leading the work to deliver them.
• Influence and drive software engineering best practices within the team, working independently with minimal guidance.
• Serve as a "go-to" technical resource for less experienced engineers, mentoring through code reviews, design discussions, on-call rotations, and 1:1 guidance.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior