Job Posting Title:
Product Software Engineer II
Req ID:
Job Description:
Job Summary:The Watch Fleet is responsible for building playback experiences across all of the brands at The Walt Disney Company (Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, ABC, Marvel NatGeo, etc.). We are seeing a Product Software Engineer II to join the DMX-JS Squad. As a developer on the team, you will contribute to building watch experiences across JavaScript based clients (Web, BBD, and Chromecast). You will write clean, well-tested TypeScript and JavaScript, collaborate with senior engineers on architectural decisions, and participate actively in code review across the team's shared monorepo. Day-to-day work spans a wide range of playback concerns - UI controls, Chromecast sender and receiver behavior, analytics and telemetry instrumentation, accessibility, and performance - across multiple brands and device targets simultaneously. This role is well-suited to an engineer who is comfortable working in a large, shared codebase, takes ownership of their work end-to-end, and thrives in an async-first, high-autonomy engineering culture.
Responsibilities:- Implement and maintain video playback features across Web, Chromecast, and Browser Based Devices including player controls, overlays, and UI components within a shared TypeScript/JavaScript monorepo
- Diagnose and resolve production bugs across multiple brand properties (Disney+, ESPN+, Hulu, Disney Now, ABC News) up to and including P1-severity incidents requiring independent root-cause analysis
- Develop and maintain Chromecast sender and receiver functionality, ensuring playback parity and correct behavior across cast sessions including audio/subtitle selection, scrubbing, and error handling
- Build and support Browser Based Device (BBD) playback experiences, accounting for platform-specific input models, performance constraints, and rendering differences across device categories
- Write clean, well-tested code with appropriate unit and integration test coverage; participate in and contribute to the team's Playwright end-to-end test suite
- Contribute to team-wide code review across platform, core-ui, and brand UI packages, providing constructive feedback and maintaining code quality standards across the monorepo
- Instrument and maintain analytics and telemetry integrations (QoE, Conviva, Adobe, DCF) to ensure accurate playback event tracking across platforms and devices
- Support accessibility requirements including keyboard navigation, screen reader compatibility, and caption/subtitle rendering across all supported surfaces
- Collaborate with senior engineers on architectural decisions, RFC discussions, and cross-brand platform initiatives
- Participate in on-call or incident response rotations, helping triage and resolve production playback issues across brands as they arise
- Work closely with QA, product, and partner teams to validate features, reproduce reported issues, and ensure delivery against roadmap commitments
Minimum Qualifications:- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent training or work experience
- 3+ years of experience in software engineering
- Strong TypeScript and modern JavaScript, including ESM and CJS module systems and interoperability
- Experience building or maintaining full-stack web applications - SSR frameworks, REST APIs, relational databases
- Hands-on experience with AWS services, including S3, CloudFront, RDS, and CloudWatch
- Experience building or consuming CI/CD pipelines - GitHub Actions, release automation, versioning and publish workflows
- Comfort working with Infrastructure-as-Code tooling, Terraform preferred
- Ability to independently ramp on an existing production system using code, documentation, and architectural context as primary resources
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; this team works async-first through PRs, RFCs, and GitHub discussions
Preferred Qualifications- Experience building developer-facing tooling or platform infrastructure - systems built for engineers rather than end users
- SDK authorship experience - TypeScript generics, type inference, versioning, ESM/CJS compatibility, Vite and Webpack plugin development
- Familiarity with feature flagging systems such as LaunchDarkly and runtime configuration or tag-resolution patterns
- Background in runtime deployment, CDN-backed package distribution, or versioned release automation
- Experience with web video player technology - MSE, EME, HLS, DASH - or streaming platform engineering
- React and component library development experience
- Experience with observability tooling - CloudWatch, dashboards, alerting, and metric instrumentation
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The hiring range for this position in New York, NY is $123,000 to $165,000 and in Los Angeles, CA is $117,500 to $157,500 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:
PE - Streaming Frontend
Job Posting Primary Business:
PE - Streaming Frontend - App Foundations
Primary Job Posting Category:
Product Software Engineering
Employment Type:
Full time
Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:
New York, NY, USA
Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:
USA - CA - 1200 Grand Central Ave
Date Posted:
2026-07-08
