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Senior Product Software Engineer - Frontend

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Disney logoDisney · Santa Monica, CA
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Responsibilities

  • Technical Leadership & Expertise
  • Own the design, development, and successful deployment of medium-to-large size software solutions, ensuring performance, quality, scalability, and security.
  • Drive software engineering best practices, including design, code quality, security and testability within the team.
  • Exhibit deep and broad technical expertise, with hands-on proficiency in key functional/specialty areas.
  • Serve as a primary technical resource for the team, offering guidance on technical issues and new feature development.
  • Participate in the design and delivery of features that integrate with LLM-backed services. For example streaming chat surfaces, structured-output forms, retrieval-grounded search, and tool-use interactions, partnering with senior AI-application engineers on the team.
  • Help establish and refine team practices for using AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, or equivalent) effectively and responsibly in day-to-day development.
  • Execution & Impact
  • Solve complex technical problems with an innovative and experimental can-do attitude grounded by advanced technical skill and technique.
  • Conduct thorough code reviews, focusing on requirements, design and coding standards, readability, testability, and optimization.
  • Mentor and guide the work of less experienced engineers to develop solutions.
  • Identify opportunities and recommend the development or implementation of solutions to improve products or processes with each iteration.
  • Document technical details for assigned features, fixes, and projects.
  • Autonomy & Influence
  • Work independently with minimal guidance, applying judgment in selecting methods and techniques to resolve issues or satisfy requests.
  • Make timely, informed technical decisions that moderately influence the work of team members and related projects.
  • Participate in developing new technical approaches and tools.
  • Communicate complex technical information effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Requirements

  • Minimum of

Benefits

Parental leave

Additional Information

Job Posting Title: Senior Product Software Engineer - Frontend Req ID: 10153777 Job Description: Technology is at the heart of Disney's past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology (DEEP&T) is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more - all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney's media business globally. The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company's media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world. Here are a few reasons why we think you'd love working here: Building the future of Disney's media : Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come. Reach, Scale & Impact : More than ever, Disney's technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company's brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News...and many more. These products and brands - and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry - matter to millions of people globally. Innovation : We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and solve complex and distinctive technical problems. Job Summary: The Disney Growth, Commerce, and Identity Experience organization powers the foundational user experiences across Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+, and other Walt Disney Company business units. These experiences are built on a shared identity platform that enables secure, seamless authentication, registration, and account management for hundreds of millions of users globally. The Identity Client Experience team owns and evolves the client-side governance platform that powers trusted, compliant, and consistent user experiences across Disney's streaming ecosystem - including privacy and consent management, age verification, parental controls, Kids Mode, analytics governance, and policy-driven feature control. These systems are essential to ensuring every interaction across Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ is compliant by default, regionally adaptive, and consistent across web, mobile, and living room devices. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with strong cross-platform instincts and a passion for building secure, scalable, and policy-driven client experiences. In this role, you will design and develop core governance capabilities used across all of Disney's streaming platforms, collaborate closely with legal, privacy, product, and partner teams, and help shape the future of identity and data governance on the client.


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