Description
About the Role & Team
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Performance Marketing arm of The Walt Disney Company's Enterprise Media and Marketing team. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will help expand our technology portfolio of innovative campaign planning tools, complex data science workflows, and elegant web applications that blend the art of advertising with the science of data-backed insights.
What You Will Do
- Lead the design and development of intuitive, high-quality web applications used daily by the Performance Marketing group , owning the experience end to end, from interaction design through to production
- Own and evolve software engineering, data modeling, and architectural standards within the team; create and uphold standards and rigor around software development, testing, deployment, and documentation
- Quickly develop a deep understanding of the business of marketing and create new technical solutions or platforms that can accelerate our broader team's velocity and impact
- Implement full stack applications that facilitate the execution of data-driven media campaigns on third-party ad platforms
- Help fellow engineers hurdle roadblocks; create tools that empower scientists and developers to quickly test, iterate, and promote to production
- Implement quality controls, monitoring, and other safeguards to ensure optimizations are accurately and safely applied to in-flight ad campaigns and key business metrics are always presented accurately
Required Qualifications & Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience)
- 8+ years of experience designing and delivering full-stack architectures in a production environment, with a strong understanding of design patterns and best practices
- Strong opinions on how to best use AI/LLMs in the software development process; ability to quickly discern hype from value in the quickly evolving AI landscape (and an equal ability to put it into practice)
- Strong proficiency with a modern component-based front-end framework (Angular preferred; React, Vue, or similar considered), along with TypeScript, HTML, and CSS, and a strong sense of design patterns and best practice
- Understanding of cloud compute and modern dev-ops practices; experience crafting and owning CI/CD pipelines for applications
- Experience with data-rich environments and a fluency with SQL and data modeling
- Ability to make this architecture fit with our marketing priorities and context
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into reality-based requirements
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building and maintaining design systems and shared component libraries (Tailwind CSS)
- Familiarity or experience with front-end web development and UX design
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and building scalable services
- Specific experience with our stack: Spark, Python, Angular, Spring Boot, Databricks/AWS, Chart.js
- Knowledge of media buying and ad platforms including DMPs, Google Ads, Facebook/Instagram, Innovid, LiveRamp and DSPs (Google Display Video, The Trade Desk, Yahoo)
Benefits
The hiring range for this remote position in Burbank, CA is $158,100.00 - $211,900.00 per year. 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.