Senior Product Software Engineer

The Walt Disney Company

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
New York, NYGlendale, CA
Salary
$150,900–$202,400 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
15 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Mar 3, 2027

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About The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is a diversified global entertainment and media enterprise operating in segments including Disney Parks, Experiences and Products; Entertainment (ABC, Hulu, Disney+); and ESPN. Industry: Entertainment & Media

The Walt Disney Company currently has 90 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $150,900–$202,400 across 90 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Product Software Engineer

As a Sr Product Software Engineer (Roku Engineering), you will join the ABC News Mobile and Living Room Devices team to build the ABC News Direct-to-Consumer client app. You will be responsible for developing new application features, including onboarding flows, browse UI/UX experiences, analytics, and video playback interfaces for Roku streaming devices and smart TVs. Your daily work involves writing client-side code using BrightScript and the Roku SceneGraph SDK while contributing to JavaScript and React-based web tools, gulp build scripts, AWS configurations, and Node.js services. You will collaborate with design, services, and backend engineers to ensure platform parity and navigate hardware certification requirements. This role solves the technical challenge of delivering high-performance, data-driven user interfaces and seamless content streaming across diverse 10-foot devices.

What you'll do

  • Build client app experiences for Roku streaming devices and smart TVs using BrightScript and SceneGraph.
  • Develop new application features including onboarding flows, browse UI/UX, analytics, and video playback.
  • Create and extend templated controls and write custom controls for the user interface.
  • Develop web tools and services using JavaScript, React, Node.js, and AWS configurations.
  • Vet new hardware, firmware, and certification requirements with Roku from a client application perspective.
  • Ensure feature parity across different platforms by coordinating with backend and mobile engineering teams.
  • Implement pixel-perfect designs and animations to provide high-performance user interfaces.
  • Perform performance optimization and feature degradation techniques for devices with varying capabilities.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree or better in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent job experience.
  • 5+ years of development experience with a client-side development stack.
  • Experience with BrightScript (preferred).
  • Experience with MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) architecture.
  • Experience creating beautiful, rich, performant user interfaces, including pixel-perfect designs and animations (preferred).
  • Experience working on user interface-level code and knowledge of common patterns to present a data-driven UX (preferred).
  • Experience with JavaScript client- and server-side development (preferred).
  • Experience with DevOps, gulp scripts, Jenkins, and AWS (preferred).

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