Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer

Location : Glendale, California; Morrisville, North Carolina; New York, New York

Business : Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Date posted : Sep. 08, 2025

Overview

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.

Why you’ll 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.

Company and Product Context

Media Engineering : builds software and systems that prepare media content and metadata for the Disney Streaming platform, providing the best playback experience. Includes handling audio, video, and metadata content from ingest through publish, supporting scalable workflows and operator tools. We build logic across players and back-end services to measure, control, and optimize playback.

Product Engineering : is a unified team responsible for engineering Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms, including product engineering, media engineering, QA, personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity. We build platform-agnostic tools to test video on devices including smart TVs, Chromecast, browsers, Roku, iOS and Android, Playstation, Xbox, and set-top boxes.

We’re seeking a Lead Software Engineer to help us deliver excellent streaming experiences for Hulu and Disney+ as a developer of our client player. You will have the opportunity to lead design and implementation of a cross-platform player that runs Disney+ and Hulu on multiple devices, including gaming consoles and set-top boxes.

Responsibilities

• Architect technical solutions for video player development and testing.
• Build tools for testing video playback on JavaScript-based devices.
• Lead programming, testing and debugging of applications or fixes to existing applications.
• Interacts and coordinates deliverables with other technical groups in the organization.
• Conceives and sets the architectural direction for development projects.
• Rapidly prototype and implement scalable, reliable, and maintainable media applications using TypeScript, JavaScript, and other web development technologies.
• Lead team members in problem analysis and issue resolution.

Basic Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

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The hiring ranges are listed per location and may vary by geographic region and experience. A bonus and / or long-term incentive units may be provided, in addition to the full range of benefits.

About Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

At Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology, we’re blending imagination and innovation to reimagine the ways people experience and engage with the world’s most beloved stories and products. Our work is wide-ranging and deeply sophisticated.

About The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise with core business segments including Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. Disney Streaming Technology LLC is part of this organization and is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Disability Accommodation For Employment Applications : The Walt Disney Company and its affiliated companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please email Candidate.Accommodations@Disney.com.

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