Lead Software Engineer – Frontend
| Company | The Walt Disney Company |
|---|---|
| Location | Seattle, WA, USA, Santa Monica, CA, USA, San Francisco, CA, USA, Bristol, CT, USA, New York, NY, USA |
| Salary | $152200 – $223600 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- 7+ years experience building highly scalable and performant web applications serving millions of users and requests.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
- Experience architecting sophisticated technical changes, to knowledge-share, and get consensus for their solutions.
- Mature understanding of front-end web development technologies and principles (i.e. JavaScript (ES6+) HTML, CSS, React, TypeScript, NodeJS, and Amazon Web Services).
- Experience working within a modern JavaScript workflow through technologies such as: Git, CSS Preprocessors, Styled Components, Single Page Application frameworks and Module Bundlers (Webpack, etc.).
- Proven track record to research solutions to complex problems and being able to work across multiple teams to implement solutions.
- Highly accountable with the ability to lead projects from beginning to end; designing workflows, breaking down and implementing tasks.
- Writes well-documented, clear, and high quality code with tests.
- Quickly learn, understand, and adapt to new technologies; identifying root causes and driving solutions to complex problems.
- Ability to support and mentor senior developers by building trust, identifying goals, encouraging, instructing, and providing constructive feedback.
Responsibilities
- Lead large initiatives and help architect and develop core site functionality using JavaScript (ES6+) HTML and CSS.
- Work on a modern stack including React, TypeScript, NodeJS, and Amazon Web Services.
- Ideate with Product and Senior Leadership on potential new features and research applicable technologies and solutions.
- Use industry standard methodologies to continually increase performance and scalability.
- Setting up golden standards for code quality and reviewing pull requests to ensure product and design specifications are met.
- Mentor and facilitate growth of senior engineers partnering with Engineering management.
- Maintain and support production streaming applications at global scale.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with streaming video, large data applications, and analytics suites.
- Knowledge of SEO, accessibility, observability and web performance metrics.
- Experience integrating with REST and/or GraphQL APIs.