Job Posting Title:
Lead Software Engineer
Req ID:
Job Description:
Lead Software Engineer - GCI Experiences Job Description (2025)
The Growth, Commerce & Identity (GCI) organization is dedicated to three business-critical areas at Disney that will help transform its media business. We build innovative and cutting-edge capabilities to drive subscriptions, engagement, and monetization across Disney's streaming and digital products. We enable the wide range of Disney brands to connect and engage with consumers through a unified identity, powered by shared services that are trustworthy and seamless to integrate with.
The Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology (DEE&T) Growth, Commerce and Identity Client Engineering organization delivers experiences across Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ built on a common platform and shared technology. We are fast-paced and fast-growing organization that shares knowledge and code for initiatives throughout Disney! Our mission: Building inclusive user-centered experiences that welcome users, guiding them through a seamless journey from login to sign up, and facilitating effortless account management.
You will serve as a high level technical resource and "go-to" person, solving sophisticated technical challenges and finding opportunities to improve systems, products, and services!
Responsibilities- Lead projects where you'll work closely with engineering and product teams to scope and distill product requirements into design and technical specifications.
- Write, maintain, standardize and enforce code quality through test driven development.
- Architect and Design implementations while providing documentation and guidance to other engineers.
- Key contributor to project needs and the evolution of the team's practices; recommending changes in development, coding, maintenance and system standards.
- Applies experiences and exercises judgment in selecting methods and techniques to identify, resolve, and develop solutions to a variety of sophisticated tasks involving architectural application changes.
- Supports and mentors senior developers through code reviews, knowledge-sharing, and technical leadership.
Basic Qualifications: - 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.
- Expert knowledge in Javascript, Typescript, and React.
- Proven track record to define and implement api specifications while collaborating with service teams
- Highly diligent. with the ability to see projects from beginning to end.
- 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.
Preferred Qualifications: - Shipped production level React/Node.js application with high availability and throughput deployed to cloud platforms (e.g. AWS)
- Expert understanding of web accessibility fundamentals
- Expansive industry knowledge with regard to web standards and new technologies
Additional InformationThe hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, CA is $155,700.00-$208,700.00 per year and in Sa Francisco, CA is $166,800 - $223,600 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.
Job Posting Segment:
Product Engineering
Job Posting Primary Business:
PE - Growth, Commerce & Identity
Primary Job Posting Category:
Software Engineer
Employment Type:
Full time
Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:
Santa Monica, CA, USA
Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:
Date Posted:
2026-05-11
