Senior Application Engineer
The Walt Disney Company · Lake Buena Vista, FL · 2 wk ago
On-siteEngineering$135k–$181k/yrFull-time
What You'll Do
- Own features end-to-end — from requirements through deployment — working directly with Product Managers and stakeholders
- Build intuitive interfaces that help both users and AI agents surface, understand, and act on complex data at scale
- Contribute to product direction by providing technical input on workflows, feasibility, and user experience — not just building to spec
- Research and integrate AI capabilities — from LLMs to agent frameworks — into production applications
- Guide and support other engineers through code reviews and technical mentorship
- Contribute across multiple projects as team priorities evolve
- Write tests, maintain code quality, and uphold engineering excellence across the team
- Work daily alongside other Application Engineers, Product Designers, Data Engineers, and Data Scientists
Required Experience
- 5+ years of front-end experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React
- 2+ years of experience with Python
- Experience with React frameworks and build tools (Next.js, Vite, or similar)
- Experience with TypeScript
- Experience with Python web frameworks (Django, FastAPI, Flask, or similar)
- Experience building REST APIs and full-stack web applications
- Experience with real-time streaming patterns (SSE, WebSockets, or similar)
- Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or similar) and writing complex SQL queries
- Experience building applications that process large and complex volumes of data at scale
- Experience with Docker and containerized deployments
- Experience with AWS services (ECS, Lambda, or similar)
- Experience with Git version control and CI/CD pipelines