TypeScript Engineer

EXTERNAL JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Early Playback Enablement team mission is to enable media player engineers and QA partners to validate video and audio playback across our player stack by creating and managing test-streams, mocking relevant services, and removing related impediments. We help support new platforms, accelerate the development of our in-house media player, and improve playback quality across the Disney media ecosystem.

Our team is seeking someone to help us further support media playback across brands and to expand our capabilities to serve video and audio test content.

Your primary initiative will be to ensure our deliverables help provide a foundation for media playback innovation.

You are an opinionated optimist who always leaves the code that you are working on better than you found it. You foster trust, approach problems with empathy and respect, and embrace creativity. You see yourself as a partner who excels in problem solving, puts users first, and cares deeply about quality.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain an internal REST service written in Typescript
• Design systems and procedures to best expand and scale our services
• Automate processes around our deliverables
• Use Test Driven Development practices and functional paradigms
• Determine creative ways to surface test content and mock services across our ecosystem
• Deliver test content to unblock our partners and/or expose new media features
• Own the end-to-end fulfillment of test content requests
• Support partner needs as they pertain to media playback
• Share ownership of our playback support channels and threads
• Create documentation around test content and relevant services
• Understand the intricacies of playback across our brands
• Track and execute against product and project requirements
• Maintain of our test-stream and mock-service catalogs

Basic Qualifications:
• 3+ years' experience with advanced TypeScript
• 5+ years' experience in JavaScript
• 2+ years' experience leading a project
• 2+ years' experience working in a cross-functional capacity
• 2+ years' experience building APIs
• Experience mocking data and services
• Experience writing unit tests
• Experience with authentication, authorization, and access management
• Experience manipulating/proxying data to augment application state
• Experience managing collections/catalogs
• Understanding of agile methodologies and git source control

Preferred Qualifications:
• 2+ years' experience working with functional paradigms
• 5+ years' experience leading a project
• 5+ years' experience working in a cross-functional capacity
• Experience with AWS
• Experience with SQL
• Interest in the HLS video space

Required Education Bachelor's Degree or work exp