The Walt Disney Company · 7 hours ago
Sr Software Engineer
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$149K/yr - $199K/yr
5+ years expThe Walt Disney Company is a global organization dedicated to building and advancing the technological backbone for Disney’s media business. The Sr Software Engineer will work within the Lifecycle Messaging team to create and deliver customer-centric messaging experiences, while also enhancing and maintaining the messaging portal and collaborating with various teams.
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Responsibilities
Build and maintain product-driven initiatives to improve and expand the messaging portal
Enhance/improve the underlying codebase to be extensible, reusable, and maintainable
Be involved in code reviews and architecture reviews for team members
Provide on-call support for critical services on a rotational basis
Own and deliver projects end-to-end with high quality and a robust architecture
Communicate and work with multi-functional business partners, including product, design, and backend engineering
Collaborate and mentor more junior developers, help them and yourself grow as developers and people
Ramp up on new domains and technologies
Contribute to the source code implementation of new features in UMP critical services. Submit code change requests, unit tests, integration tests, and investigation results for review and deployment
Build and maintain product-driven initiatives to improve and expand the messaging portal, Enhance/improve the underlying codebase to be extensible, reusable, and maintainable
Contribute to the enhancement of the Unified Messaging Platform critical solutions and services, with an awareness of scalability, performance, and reliability benchmarks
QA Automation to enhance the stability of our system
On-call support
Qualification
Required
Minimum of 5 years of related work experience
Front-end web development experience working with Typescript, React, HTML5, CSS3, SASS/LESS, and vanilla JS
Experience working collaboratively across development, design, product, marketing, and more
Proven ability to mentor more junior developers
Strong attention to detail, excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
Experience working with localization and/or internationalization
Solid understanding of A/B experimentation
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
Preferred
Experience shipping entertainment/streaming media applications/platforms
Experience building messaging experiences, especially Email and Push
A history building internally scalable UI systems
Experience with QA automation tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Gherkin/Cucumber, etc
Knowledge of API design (GraphQL and or REST)
Experience with CI/CD, Git versioning and code conventions
Benefits
A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
The full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company started as a cartoon studio and evolves into sports coverage and television shows.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$15BKey Investors
Citibank
2026-02-10Post Ipo Debt· $4B
2020-04-13Post Ipo Debt· $5B
2020-03-20Post Ipo Debt· $6B
Leadership Team
Jamie Power
SVP, Addressable Sales
Nick Lewerke
SVP/Head of Content Planning & Analysis, Disney Streaming
Recent News
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