Sr Product Software Engineer

The Walt Disney Company • Glendale, CA

2d • $141,900 - $199,400 • Remote

About The Position

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology is reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also transforming Disney’s media business for the future. This involves evolving streaming and digital products, powering worldwide advertising and distribution, and delivering unmatched entertainment and sports content. The team is designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney’s media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come. The Disney+ Product and platform delights millions of consumers every minute of every day. The team develops and executes groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of development experience with a client-side development stack, ideally with at least 2 years BrightScript experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or better in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent job experience.
• Experience with MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) architecture.
• Proficient in technical design and development of generalized solutions, such as reusable utilities and UI components, and generalized logic that can be consumed by multiple applications.
• Experience mentoring junior level team members.

Nice To Haves

• Extensive experience creating beautiful, rich, performant user interfaces, including implementing pixel-perfect designs and animations.
• Experience working on user interface-level code and knowledge of common patterns, architectures, and approaches to present a data-driven UX to viewers.
• Familiarity with development and troubleshooting on set-top boxes or Smart TVs.
• Experience with player technologies, such as HLS, MPEG-DASH, Transport Stream, and CMAF.
• Experience working on a range of devices with varying performance and capabilities.
• Experience with configuration-driven development.
• Experience with performance optimization and feature degradation techniques.
• Experience creating and extending templated controls and writing custom controls.
• Experience with asynchronous and concurrent code.
• Experience with unit testing and related patterns.
• Experience with JavaScript client- and server-side development.
• Experience with DevOps, gulp scripts, Jenkins and AWS.

Responsibilities

• Be a critical member of a team of engineers responsible for building the client player and playback experiences in BrightScript, using the Roku SceneGraph SDK.
• Contribute to the development of new application features across many areas, including the player domain.
• Build tools and systems outside of the Roku apps, including JavaScript-based and React-based web tools, gulp build scripts, AWS configurations, and Node.js services.
• Partner with Roku to evaluate new hardware, firmware and certification requirements from a client application perspective.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders to help understand and communicate requirements and device limitations.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

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