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ID #42838652
State California
City Burbank
Job type Permanent
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source The Walt Disney Company
Showed 2022-06-11
Date 2022-06-10
Deadline 2022-08-09
Category Web/HTML/info design
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Lead Web Application Engineer

California, Burbank, 91501 Burbank USA

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Movies Anywhere is the next generation of in-home entertainment, providing an unparalleled digital entertainment experience. Leveraging cutting edge technology, unique partnerships, and a talented team, Movies Anywhere is an exclusive, cross-platform, cloud-based movie service that enables consumers to seamlessly discover, grow, access, and enjoy their personal digital movie collection across a variety of studios, retailers, and platforms all in one convenient app and/or website.

Movies Anywhere seeks a Lead Web App Engineer to join a team of dedicated technologists solving a range of interesting problems in innovative ways in an exciting and dynamic industry. We are looking for a proven lead engineer who wants to shape the next generation of video consumption applications. We are a team that values passion, community involvement, and code that stands out. If you are interested, we'd love to hear from you. #disneytech

Responsibilities : In this role, you will provide technical oversight of the development life cycle of the Movies Anywhere Web application. You will work with all client-side development teams and backend services teams in technical discussions and architecture for new and expanding features of the Movies Anywhere product. You will be mentoring early-career developers via pair programming, technical talks, and code reviews. You will need to communicate effectively to a broad audience, from technical to non-technical through strong verbal and written communication skills. This position reports to the Web App Engineering Manager and has no direct reports.

You Will
  • Define, architect and build high-quality software solutions across multiple platforms and with several engineering teams
  • Collaborate with other software engineers and cross-functional teams
  • Evangelize technologies, solutions, and best practices
  • Contribute new ideas to a larger community of high-caliber professionals
  • Balance resources, requirements, and complexity

Basic Qualifications :

  • 5+ years of professional experience
  • Experience leading projects from conception to production and beyond.
  • Passion for building and maintaining consumer-facing web applications that are secure, scalable, and highly available.
  • Solid understanding of Data structures and algorithms to solve problems (i.e. Knows basic CS fundamentals)
  • Be well versed in best practices and design patterns
  • Strong problem-solving skills
  • Participate in technical design reviews and functional demos
  • Effective communication skills both technical and non-technical
  • Comfortable with Git and participating in a constructive code review process
  • Sound understanding of HTTP/REST web services
  • Using best practices and design patterns for modern development, have experience architecting and lead web projects
  • Should have a deep understanding of core JavaScript and Web APIs and a solid understanding of how web applications render in the browser
  • Should understand the Event Loop and the roles of the Stack, Queue, and Heap
  • Should enjoy working in a collaborative environment and supporting a culture of hard and soft skills growth
  • Be able to demonstrate proficiency in the following:
    • JavaScript (es6 and beyond)
    • HTML
    • CSS (Box Model, Specificity, Flexbox, Grid)
    • CSS Design Systems (BEM, OOCSS)
    • State Management (Flux, Redux)
    • Node.js and NPM
    • Responsive design and SPA development
    • Security and performance of web applications
    • Cross browser development
    • Front end frameworks such as AngularJS or React
    • Unit testing using Jest, or equivalent

Required Education :
  • BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience

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