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Product Software Engineer II - Frontend

The Walt Disney Company · Santa Monica, CA · 2 wk ago
On-siteEngineering$123k–$165k/yrFull-time

About the role

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 critical web-based identity surfaces that serve as the front door to Disney’s streaming ecosystem — including login, registration, account management, profile management, and identity verification flows. These systems are essential to enabling secure access, supporting commerce and marketing initiatives, and delivering trusted, scalable user experiences.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performance identity experiences including login, registration, account management, and profile flows across Disney’s web platforms.
  • Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to translate business and user requirements into scalable technical solutions.
  • Lead the development and delivery of complex features spanning multiple systems and teams, ensuring reliability, performance, and maintainability.
  • Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code while enforcing engineering best practices, including automated testing and code reviews.
  • Serve as a technical leader and mentor, supporting team members through guidance, knowledge sharing, and constructive feedback.
  • Drive improvements in engineering standards, tooling, architecture, and development processes to enhance team productivity and system quality.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues, identifying root causes and implementing long-term solutions.
  • Contribute to architectural decisions and help evolve the identity platform to support scale, security, and future growth.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams across commerce, streaming, security, and platform engineering to deliver cohesive identity solutions.
  • Support software throughout its lifecycle, including deployment, monitoring, observability, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
  • Minimum of 3 years of related work experience
  • Basic foundational programming knowledge of web based applications
  • Experience working within a modern Javascript workflow
  • Proven ability to learn, understand, and adapt to new technologies
  • Self-learner who identifies root causes and drives solutions
  • Ability to write code that is easy to read and understand that follows standard methodologies
  • Highly thorough with the ability to clearly detail work
  • Exhibits emotional intelligence, managing oneself under high pressure/stressful situations and meets urgent timelines
  • Optimally collaborates and communicates with team members

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