COMPLETE Sr Software Engineer - Santa Monica, CA, USA

Job Posting Title:

Sr Software Engineer

Req ID:

10065042

Job Description:

P3 Senior Software Engineer–Web

Job Summary 

The Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution organization delivers app experiences across Hulu, Disney+, ESPN+, and Star+ built on a common platform and shared technology.

As a member on DMED’s Web Commerce and Identity team you’ll build tools to increase efficiencies for engineers, architect and maintain a unified platform shared between DMED products and promote a culture of engineering excellence. We are looking for fast learners who understand modular development and have a commitment to developer experience. You will be surrounded by colleagues eager to help you succeed and be part of an ambitious, high performing, rewarding culture. Our team encourages experimentation and embraces productive failure.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you serve as a high-level technical resource and “go-to” person, solving sophisticated technical challenges and finding opportunities to improve systems, products, and services.

Responsibilities 

• Collaborates closely with engineering teams to identify goals and translates them into technical specifications, projects, or fixes that scale and perform.
• Leads by example to write, maintain, follow and enforce code quality through test driven development. 
• Contributes to project needs and the evolution of the team's practices, recommending changes in development, coding, maintenance and system standards.
• Efficiently supports software throughout the lifecycle. Performs technical maintenance and fixing for components while maintaining clear documentation.
• Applies experiences and exercises judgment in selecting methods and techniques to identify, resolve, and develop solutions to a variety of complex tasks involving architectural application changes.
• Supports and mentors' developers through code reviews, knowledge-sharing, and technical leadership. 
• Implements reusable architecture and patterns that set the direction for web development across DMED.

Basic Qualifications: 

• 5+ years' experience building highly scalable and performant production level web applications.
• Bachelor's Degree is computer science/engineering.
• Demonstrated ability to architect complex technical changes, to knowledge-share, and get buy-in for their solutions.
• Writes well-documented, clear, and robust code.
• Experience working within a large scale modern Javascript/Typescript application.
• Proven ability to integrate with third party systems (ex: APIs, SDKs, etc)
• Highly diligent with the ability to see projects from beginning to end, designing workflows and executing tasks.
• Quickly learn, understand, and adapt to new technologies, identifying root causes and driving solutions to highly sophisticated problems. 
• Exhibits emotional intelligence, supervising oneself under high pressure situations and meets urgent timelines. 
• Ability to support and mentor other developers by building trust, identifying goals, encouraging, instructing, and providing constructive feedback.
• Optimally collaborates and communicates with team members and multi-functional partners, engaging technical topics with clarity. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience shipping a production React/Node.js application.
• Experience with developing applications in cloud platforms (e.g. AWS)
• Experience working with Agile methodologies.
• Working knowledge of web accessibility fundamentals.

#Disney Tech

 

The hiring range for this position in California is $136,100 to $182,400 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.

Job Posting Segment:

Cross Business Groups

Job Posting Primary Business:

Shared Service-Technology

Primary Job Posting Category:

Software Engineer

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Santa Monica, CA, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2023-10-11