Job Posting Title:

Lead Software Engineer - Front End

Req ID:

10121493

Job Description:

***This is a on-site position must sit in our Seattle technology office four (4) days a week***

Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology 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.

Disney’s Event Hub team is seeking a Software Developer who will be an outstanding addition to our technology team. This team is responsible for developing internal tooling to solve a number of cross-department problems with streaming data. You’ll be developing internal tooling designed to centralize stream and schema discovery, manage data quality, and empower business to leverage collected data efficiently.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will collaborate closely with engineers, project managers, and product managers to find the best solution for our viewers. You will drive projects end-to-end: designing the initial solution; finding alignment with partner teams; execution of the necessary code; and overseeing the deployment of code to production. Members of the team look to your code and documentation as examples of excellence. You value good-faith collaboration, driving best practices, and promoting excellence on your team. If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you!

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Design and create internal tooling to solve streaming data problems
• Engage with clients to determine requirements and test UX changes
• Implement an internal SPA in Svelte
• Work with a mix of technical and non-technical stakeholders to solve key business problems
• Create beautiful and functional dashboards and monitors for streaming teams.
• Collaborate with data teams to provide robust solutions to common data quality and governance tasks

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
• 7+ years of relevant front end software engineering experience
• Experience with Frontend Javascript
• Proficiency with basic UX design
• Proficiency with at least one of the following frameworks: React, Svelte, Vue

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Svelte
• Experience using Figma
• Professional experience creating internal tooling

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience collaborating to drive organizational change.

The hiring range for this position Seattle, WA is $159,500 - $213,900 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:

Product & Data Engineering

Job Posting Primary Business:

PDE - Engagement Experiences & Platforms

Primary Job Posting Category:

Software Engineer

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Seattle, WA, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2025-05-22