Sr Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design and develop responsive, high-performance web applications using React, TypeScript, JavaScript, and modern CSS frameworks, leading development of larger features and epics.
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers and take ownership of user experience decisions to implement elegant and usable interfaces.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code, and influence engineering best practices across the team.
• Drive front-end performance optimization for scalability and responsiveness.
• Design and integrate with APIs and backend services, ensuring seamless communication.
• Lead code reviews, technical discussions, and knowledge sharing, mentoring teammates and helping onboard new team members.
• Stay current with emerging web technologies and drive improvements to our front-end architecture.
• Deliver multiple projects utilizing an Agile methodology, following the principles set forth by the team while bringing a fresh perspective to our processes and new/enhanced technical tools.
• Build and enhance front-end frameworks and solutions that scale and perform, reviewing code for design, testability, and clear usability, and identifying opportunities to improve the product with each iteration.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in web application development or software engineering using JavaScript, TypeScript, React, HTML, and CSS, including expertise with modern UI frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of UI performance optimization techniques.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with Git and CI/CD workflows.
• Experience with testing frameworks.
• Experience leading feature development and mentoring or onboarding teammates.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical teams.
• Care about your craft and have opinions about the “right” way to do things with technology.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with various Amazon Web Services such as S3 buckets, EKS, EC2, SQS/SNS, Lambdas, RDS, and more.
• Understanding of RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and WebSockets.
• Knowledge of performance and application profiling.
• A strong curiosity about how Disney delivers the Magic and a desire to be a part of it.