Staff Software Engineer
Warner Bros. Discovery4 months ago
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and implementation of robust, scalable backend systems, including API design, data modeling, and service infrastructure.
- Contribute to front-end architecture and implementation with a focus on performance, scalability, and integration with backend services.
- Participate in code and architecture reviews and define and evolve engineering standards.
- Work primarily in modern JavaScript and AWS services while mentoring peers.
- Evaluate industry trends, identify business risks, and propose mitigations.
- Lead engineering initiatives, break solutions into meaningful tasks, and execute or delegate work.
- Advance products from proofs of concept and prototypes to production releases.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field and 8+ years of relevant experience.
- Proven ability to drive engineering-culture changes through evangelism and structured processes.
- Strong experience designing, deploying, and operating applications on AWS, with command-line proficiency and familiarity with Git and Docker in AWS-based pipelines.
- Extensive experience with modern JavaScript, responsive UIs, scalable services, contemporary frameworks, state management, and API integration.
- Deep hands-on familiarity with client- and server-side technologies, software data structures, and algorithms.
- Ability to lead teams toward goals through technical discussion, proposals, and task planning.
- Commitment to continued professional growth along an individual-contributor path.
- Experience with Kanban or Scrum teams, project management tools, open-source participation, interviewing, and talent acquisition is preferred.
Benefits
- Warner Bros. Discovery offers curated benefits and tools supporting professional exploration and growth.
- The role supports an individual-contributor career path and a collaborative, inclusive workplace.
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About Warner Bros. Discovery
Warner Bros. Discovery is a global media company that produces and distributes film, television, streaming, sports, news, and games for consumers and distribution partners. Its portfolio includes Warner Bros. Pictures, HBO and Max, CNN, Discovery Channel, HGTV, and DC, with revenue from subscriptions, advertising, licensing, and theatrical releases. Formed in 2022 through the merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery, it is headquartered in New York City and trades on Nasdaq as WBD.