Job Posting Title:

Senior Product Development Engineer II

Req ID:

10142915

Job Description:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

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.

Ad Platforms is responsible for Disney’s industry-leading ad technology and products – driving advertising performance, innovation, and value in Disney’s sports, news, and entertainment content, across all media platforms.

 

Job Summary: 

 

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will focus on engineering beautiful user interfaces and interactions.  You will use your deep UI engineering and creative skills to take an influential role in iterating and continuously deploying new features, functionality, and products to our customers.

 

You will be an important part of a lean DevOps and automation culture where we’ll be looking for you to collaborate with the backend and product teams to drive UI architecture, champion UI code quality, and to build optimized experiences for our end-users.

 

We want someone that has grown up through the web software development ranks - possessing 7+ years’ experience in designing and architecting highly scalable and performant web applications while doing highly creative, detail oriented front-end web development.

 

The candidate must be fluent in ES6+ JavaScript/TypeScript, while also combining expertise with modern JavaScript libraries, tools, and runtimes to engineer abstract, secure, reusable, and testable UI components and applications.

 

The candidate’s ability to adapt and pick up new technologies is key for this role. The candidate should also have knowledge about creating, versioning and maintaining JavaScript/TypeScript libraries using npm. Knowledge about frameworks, such as: Next.js, Tailwind, React Query or others is desirable. The candidate must have knowledge about consuming APIs, understand REST, and be able to work with Node + Express.

 

This person should also have home-grown Design System experience, having collaborated tightly with creative teams to champion and influence component reusability, maintainability, and configurability across a diverse UI portfolio.  The right person should also blend his/her engineering abilities with a sense of pixel-perfect craftsmanship, turning user stories, wireframes, and prototypes into fully functional UI components and applications.

 

This candidate must be comfortable working with toolchains within the JavaScript ecosystem. Some of the tools we use are Webpack, Babel, ESLint, and TypeScript.  In addition, the candidate must be proficient with Git source control workflows and using pipelines to build and deploy software.

 

We’re looking for a passionate, impactful, person who wants to come here to do their very best work and make their mark, add their chapter to the long and storied history of The Walt Disney Company.  Someone who holds themselves and their teammates accountable in a professional, collaborative manner.  A collaborative technologist who seeks to bring the best out in themselves and those around them.  Someone who can provide a fresh perspective and innovative insight to our initiatives.

 

 

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Reason logically and creatively, identifying problems, drawing valid conclusions from the data available, and develop effective solutions while applying creative thinking in the design and development of high performing web applications
• Collaborate with peers to design complex applications, peer review code, and suggest optimization
• Enable continuous deployment by championing quality engineering practices: linting, unit testing, e2e testing, pipeline automation
• Collaborate with and influence product teams to build and maintain design system standards, processes, and adoption
• Check-in valuable, clean code daily that adds new features and capabilities
• Help define engineering best practices and provide technical mentorship
• Investigate and resolve any production issues from end user (UI) to service layer and work to prevent them
• Work with project managers to ensure that all project deliverables are on time and high quality

 

 

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

Minimum and Preferred. Inclusive of Licenses/Certs (include functional experience as well as behavioral attributes and/or leadership capabilities)

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in web application development or software engineering in a large enterprise environment using modern frameworks
• Have expertise with JavaScript ES6+/TypeScript, native DOM interfaces, WebSocket protocol, REST/SOA patterns.
• Expertise with programming using a best of breed UI stack: React/React Query, TypeScript, Tailwind, Jest, React Testing Library, Webpack, Babel, Node/Express, OAuth.
• Have a track record of championing quality engineering; be adamant that all UI code is written in a way that can be tested both with unit tests and end-to-end tests.
• Have a strong understanding of (and be opinionated about) browsers, devices, OS, and other user agent interoperability and compatibility concerns
• Have hands on DevOps experience with AWS, GitLab CI/D pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes/Helm
• Have experience working with high-performing teams using Agile and methodologies and frameworks
• Be a perfectionist who makes sure every pixel is in the right place
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Care about your craft and have opinions about the “right” way to do things.

 

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a relevant technical discipline
• Previous work experience in Ad Sales, Traffic or Broadcast Operations application development
• Strong curiosity about how Disney delivers the Magic and a desire to be a part of it

 

Experience with:

• React, Typescript
• Redux Toolkit, React Query
• Jest, React Testing Library
• Webpack Build / Bundling
• Next.JS, Express
• REST / SOA Patterns
• CSS, Tailwind
• OAuth, OpenID, SSO
• Git Branching, Merging, Flows
• Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD Pipelines

 

Required Education  

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Job Posting Segment:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Job Posting Primary Business:

Ad Platforms

Primary Job Posting Category:

Product Development Engineering

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Bangalore, India

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2026-02-13