The Walt Disney Company

Job ID 10058532 Location Mumbai, India Business Disney Star

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior UI (Front-End) Developer with a strong proficiency in developing complex and scalable React.JS applications, coupled with a solid understanding of Javascript, to join our engineering team and contribute to the design and implementation of our user interfaces.

About the team 

At our company, we have a dynamic and talented engineering team that is responsible for developing solutions for our adsales platform. Our primary focus is on delivering highly scalable and easy-to-maintain solutions that meet the needs of our growing user base. To achieve this, our team employs an Agile methodology and follows a Test Driven Development (TDD) approach, ensuring that our software is robust, reliable, and of the highest quality.

Our engineering team is well-versed in a range of modern technologies, including Ruby on Rails, React.JS, GoLang, and Elixir Phoenix. These technologies provide us with the flexibility and power necessary to build cutting-edge solutions that meet the demands of our ever-evolving platform. With their expertise in these technologies, our engineers are capable of architecting and implementing efficient and scalable systems that drive the success of our adsales platform.

Reporting To – Senior Engineering Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Designing and Implementing User Interfaces: Take ownership of designing and implementing intuitive, responsive, and visually appealing user interfaces using React.JS, ensuring an exceptional user experience.
• Architecting Scalable Solutions: Utilize your expertise in React.JS to architect and develop highly scalable front-end solutions that can handle a large user base and complex business requirements.
• Collaborating with UX/UI Designers: Work closely with UX/UI designers to translate design concepts into functional and interactive UI components, ensuring a seamless integration of design and development.
• Thorough knowledge of state management, including actions, reducers, and selectors, ensuring clean and maintainable code.
• Optimizing UI Performance: Employ techniques like memoization and memo components to optimize rendering and improve overall UI performance, delivering smooth and efficient user experiences.
• Leveraging React Query: Utilize your knowledge of React Query to efficiently handle data fetching, caching, and synchronization, optimizing network requests and reducing unnecessary data retrieval.
• Collaborating with Backend Developers: Collaborate closely with backend developers to define and integrate APIs and ensure smooth communication between the frontend and backend systems.
• Code Review and Quality Assurance: Conduct thorough code reviews, ensuring adherence to coding standards, best practices, and scalability requirements, while identifying opportunities for improvement and offering constructive feedback.
• Mentoring and Knowledge Sharing: Provide guidance and mentorship to junior developers, sharing your knowledge and experience in React.JS, Redux, and related technologies, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth.
• Staying Up-to-Date with Emerging Technologies: Keep abreast of the latest advancements in React.JS, Redux, and related libraries, frameworks, and tools.
• Experiment with new concepts and technologies, and propose their adoption when appropriate to enhance the team's efficiency and productivity.

Skills & Attributes for success

Technical skills

• Proficiency in React.JS: should have a deep understanding and extensive experience working with React.JS, including hooks, functional components, and component lifecycle.
• Strong JavaScript Fundamentals: A solid grasp of core JavaScript concepts and features, such as ES6+, closures, asynchronous programming, and DOM manipulation.
• Knowledge of State Management: Expertise in using state management libraries like Redux to effectively manage application state and data flow within a React.JS application.
• Responsive Web Design: Experience in building responsive web applications that provide seamless user experiences across different devices and screen sizes. CSS and Styling:
• Proficiency in CSS and modern styling techniques, including CSS preprocessors like Sass or Less, and familiarity with CSS frameworks such as Bootstrap or Tailwind CSS.
• Web Performance Optimization: Ability to optimize frontend performance by implementing techniques like code splitting, lazy loading, caching, and minimizing network requests.
• Testing and Debugging: Experience with frontend testing frameworks such as Jest, Enzyme, or React Testing Library, and proficient in using browser developer tools for debugging and troubleshooting.
• Version Control: Proficient in using Git for version control, including branching, merging, and resolving merge conflicts, and familiarity with collaborative Git workflows.

Behavioral and Personal Attributes:

• Strong Problem-Solving Skills: Should possess excellent problem-solving abilities, being able to analyze complex issues and propose effective solutions.
• Collaboration and Teamwork: The ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, communicate ideas clearly, and actively participate in discussions and decision-making processes.
• Continuous Learning: A strong desire and willingness to continuously learn and stay updated with the latest frontend technologies, tools, and industry best practices.
• Attention to Detail: Meticulousness in code quality, adhering to coding standards, and ensuring clean and maintainable codebases.
• Strong Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Adaptability and Flexibility: The capacity to adapt to changing project requirements, priorities, and technologies, and the ability to quickly learn and apply new concepts as needed.
• Leadership and Mentorship: The ability to provide guidance, mentorship, and technical leadership to junior developers, promoting a collaborative and growth-oriented team culture.
• Time and Task Management: Effective time management skills to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, and manage multiple projects simultaneously, while ensuring high-quality deliverables.
• User-Centric Mindset: A focus on understanding user needs and delivering intuitive and user-friendly interfaces that provide exceptional user experiences.
• Passion for Quality: A commitment to delivering high-quality frontend solutions, advocating for best practices, and driving continuous improvement in code quality, performance, and user satisfaction.

Preferred Education & Experience- Qualification, Knowledge and years of relevant and total experience

• A bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field is typically preferred
• Minimum of 5-7 years of relevant industry experience in frontend development.
• Additional certifications or courses in frontend development, React.JS, or related technologies can also be beneficial.