Job Posting Title:

Product Software Engineering Manager

Req ID:

10146972

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:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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 Product Software Engineering Mgr, you will hit the ground running providing clear technical leadership to a team of software engineers working on advertising products. You will be the results-driven technical leader of a motivated team where we’ll be looking for you to help steer the team in order to drive application architecture, code quality, and make sure we are doing the right thing by our users. You will lead your team by example: taking a hands-on role in engineering beautiful and user interfaces and interactions. You will use your deep Software Engineering, creative, and leadership skills to drive your team to iteratively and continuously deploy new features, functionality, and products to our customers. You will be an important part of a collaborative culture where we’ll be looking for you to work cross- functionally with PMs, QA, and backend managers 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 10 or more years’ experience in designing and architecting highly scalable and performant web applications while doing highly creative, detail oriented front-end web development.

This candidate must be comfortable working with toolchains within the JavaScript ecosystem. Some of the tools we use are WebPack, Babel, ESLint, and TypeScript. 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, Gatsby, or others is a plus. The candidate must have knowledge about API development, understand REST, and be able to work with Node + Express/koa/hapi.

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.

While The Walt Disney Company is a large company, ideally, we’d like if you have some previous experience in a U.S. startup environment and be comfortable performing multiple roles. We strive to get things done quickly, with high quality, and we are committed to the agile methodology. Our work is guided by lean principles (looking at value and looking for waste; not doing anything ‘for the sake of doing it’).

We’re looking for a passionate, impactful, technical leader 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:

• Be willing to take ownership for the software developed under your watch, all the way to production and through operations

• Take an active and hands-on role in the growth of the individuals on your team: mentoring, career coaching, and performance management.

• Actively iterate with your leader and fellow Engineering Managers on a common set of continuously evolving Software Engineering standards and practices, and champion them on your team as you mentor individuals

• Lead and oversee Senior Engineers as they architect and deliver cloud native and service-oriented UI components and applications.

• Provide day to day hands-on technical leadership, oversight, and mentorship for your immediate team

• Provide Software Engineering leadership across various product teams and individuals, regardless of reporting structure.

• Collaborate with team and peers to design complex applications, peer review code, and suggest optimization.

• Enable continuous deployment by championing quality engineering practices: linting, unit testing, web UI testing, pipeline automation.

• 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 and influence product teams to build and maintain design system standards, processes, and adoption.

• Check-in valuable, clean code on a daily basis that adds new features and capabilities

• Create reference implementations for the purpose of mentoring and leading your team

• Investigate and resolve any production issues from end user (UI) to persistence layer and work to prevent them

• Work with project managers to ensure that all project deliverables are on time and high quality

• Assist in rapid prototyping of design concepts in order to prove and test ideas with end-users

Basic Qualifications:

• Have 8-10 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.

• Have expertise with programming using a best of breed UI stack: React/React Native, Redux, TypeScript, CSS3/SCSS, Jest, React Testing Library, Selenium/Nightwatch/Cypress, SauceLabs, WebPack, Babel, Node/Express, oAuth 2.0/JWT

• 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 Azure/AWS, GitLab CI/D pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes/Helm

• Have experience working with high-performing teams using Agile and Lean 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 with technology

• Demonstrated experience providing technical direction and influencing design decisions across teams

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous work experience in Ad tech applications

• Experience working with vendor teams to deliver high quality results

• Knowledge of performance testing and application profiling

• Strong curiosity about how Disney delivers the Magic and a desire to be a part of it

• Track record of driving complex features or systems from inception to production in a leadership capacity

• Experience contributing to long-term technical roadmaps and engineering strategy

Experience with:

• Unit testing

• Object Oriented Programming fundamentals and in depth understanding of Dependency Injection

• Docker containers orchestrated via AKS and EKS

• Observability stack that includes Splunk, Datadog and Grafana

• Experience guiding platform-wide architectural improvements or modernization initiatives

• Experience evaluating and selecting new technologies or tools for team-wide adoption

Required Education:

• Minimum a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, or another technical field

• Prefer Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related technical discipline is highly desirable

Job Posting Segment:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Job Posting Primary Business:

Ad Platforms

Primary Job Posting Category:

Product Software Engineering

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Bangalore, India

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2026-03-31