Senior Software Developer
Warner Bros. DiscoveryBase Salary
$114k - $183k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, maintain, and support Java backend services using Spring Boot.
- Deliver complex backend features end-to-end from design and implementation through production support.
- Build event-driven and asynchronous systems using AWS messaging services.
- Design and maintain APIs, service integrations, and internal platform capabilities.
- Use Amazon SNS, Amazon SQS, and Amazon DynamoDB to build resilient distributed systems.
- Deploy and operate services across multiple AWS regions with a focus on availability, resiliency, and fault tolerance.
- Participate in architectural discussions and influence technical decisions.
- Conduct code reviews and establish expectations for quality, maintainability, testing, and correctness.
- Mentor Dev 2 and junior engineers through code reviews, design feedback, and pairing.
- Participate in on-call rotations and lead production incident investigation and resolution.
- Reduce technical debt and improve system performance, reliability, and operability.
- Document designs, decisions, and operational considerations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 5 years of professional experience developing backend applications in Java.
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience building and operating services with Spring Boot or similar Java frameworks.
- Experience designing and operating service-oriented or microservice architectures in production.
- Strong knowledge of SQL databases, including data modeling, query optimization, indexing, and transactional behavior.
- Ability to independently deliver complex backend features through design, implementation, and production support.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and backend engineering best practices.
- Experience working in agile, collaborative engineering teams.
- Preferred experience with Amazon SNS, Amazon SQS, Amazon DynamoDB, multi-region AWS deployments, and Spring Boot services in AWS production environments.
- Preferred familiarity with cloud-native deployment practices, monitoring, logging, alerting, and production on-call support.
Benefits
- Base pay range is $114,100.00 to $182,600.00 per year.
- Benefits include health insurance, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays, sick time, and vacation.
About Warner Bros. Discovery
Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world’s most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines WarnerMedia’s premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery’s leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses. ****Please be aware of recruitment scams by individuals posing as employers and encouraging candidates to apply for, interview and/or accept nonexistent job opportunities as a means to solicit personal information or money. The online scammers have become much more sophisticated in their attempts to lure victims. Employment opportunities and job offers at Warner Bros. Discovery will always come from our Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never provide sensitive, personal information to someone unless you’re confident who the recipient is. WBD does not extend job offers via email or on any other messaging tools to individuals to whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @wbd.com. A valid link for employment with Warner Bros. Discovery can be found at https://careers.wbd.com/global/en. If you believe you have been contacted by a scammer and may be the victim of fraud or identity theft, you should report details to the police where you live. You can also report job scams to the FTC. Learn more at https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams. *****