Staff Software Engineer

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 — an integrated, cross-functional team of marketers, software engineers, data scientists, and analysts who help execute highly data-driven marketing campaigns and tactics.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will help expand the team's 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 the 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
• Strong proficiency with a modern component-based front-end framework (Angular preferred; React, Vue, or similar considered), along with TypeScript, HTML, and CSS
• 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
• 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