Product Software Engineer II

Product Software Engineer II

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Technology is at the heart of Disney's past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney's media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company's media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.

Here are a few reasons why we think you'd love working here:

• Building the future of Disney's media:
  Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
• Reach, Scale & Impact:
  More than ever, Disney's technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company's brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally.
• Innovation:
  We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

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 Nat Geo, 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 Type Script 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 Type Script/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…