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Manager, Product Software Engineering - Frontend

The Walt Disney Company
New York City, USA
Full-time
Manager · 8+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 1 months ago
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Responsibilities:

  • Lead and grow the JavaScript Disney Media Player engineering team through hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development.
  • Own execution of the team roadmap, balancing feature delivery, technical investment, platform reliability, and operational excellence.
  • Provide technical leadership for the player stack, architecture decisions, and engineering best practices in partnership with senior engineers.
  • Partner closely with Product, Design, TPM, and platform teams to align priorities, manage dependencies, and deliver high-quality customer experiences.
  • Foster a culture of accountability, inclusion, continuous learning, and data-driven decision making to improve playback quality, performance, and reliability across devices.
  • Minimum Qualifications:
  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8+ years of relevant software engineering experience, including significant experience leading and managing engineering teams.
  • 5+ years of hands‐on, production experience with high-quality JavaScript and modern web application development.
  • Experience building or supporting media playback technologies in web‐based or connected‐device environments.
  • Experience leading teams through the full software delivery lifecycle, including development, release, and operational support of consumer‐facing applications.
  • Experience owning application availability, reliability, and performance in production environments.
  • Strong communication and leadership skills with a demonstrated ability to grow, mentor, and develop engineers.
  • Proven ability to collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical teams, influence stakeholders, and manage cross-functional dependencies.
  • Demonstrated success building inclusive, high-performing engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Familiarity with streaming media concepts and technologies (MSE/EME, HLS, MPEG-DASH, Transport Stream, CMAF).
  • Experience delivering playback or streaming video experiences at scale.
  • Experience with connected TV, OTT, or streaming device platforms.
  • Background partnering closely with Product, Design, and Platform teams on complex, highly visible products.
  • Demonstrated success managing and supporting teams distributed across multiple time zones.
  • Experience using data, metrics, or experimentation to inform technical decisions and improve user experience.
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