Lead Software Engineer, CMS

Lead Software Engineer, CBS Sports

Join CBS Digital and shape the future of sports & news media through cutting-edge AI-powered content and deeply personalized fan experiences across mobile, web, and digital platforms. We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to be a core member of our Content Management team.

What You Will Do:

• Implement AI Features: Implement and assist in the architecture of advanced Generative AI and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems to power intelligent recommendations and dynamic user personalization.
• Drive Development: Drive the rapid prototyping and full-cycle development of production-grade features for mobile and web applications.
• Contribute to Standards: Promote and adhere to scalable platform standards, engineering patterns, and reusable components across the organization.
• Collaborate and Prototype: Work closely within a small engineering group, partnering with design and product teams to rapidly design, develop, and prototype solutions to key business challenges.
• Utilize AI: Utilize AI development tools to optimize your workflow and promote the use of AI-driven development practices across the team.
• Operational Excellence: Implement solutions with scalability and reliability in mind, incorporating appropriate testing, monitoring, and alerting.
• Mentor and Document: Contribute to clear documentation and diagrams to facilitate easy onboarding for other engineers and support teams. Review code to ensure adherence to best practices (style, testability, efficiency).
• Monorepo Tooling: Utilize and contribute to the evolution of monorepo tooling and workflows (e.g., Turborepo, Nx) to support build, test, and deploy across web and mobile applications.
• Type Safety & Standards: Adhere to and contribute to the evolution of TypeScript and typing standards (e.g., strict mode, shared types, codegen) so that codebases stay maintainable, type-safe end to end, and refactor-safe.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in AI: Experience or familiarity with Generative AI and RAG architectures.
• Platform Experience: Experience contributing to scalable platform products and adhering to cross-team engineering standards.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional stakeholders in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Browser & Performance: Solid understanding of browser behavior, rendering, and front-end performance (e.g., Core Web Vitals, lazy loading, code splitting).
• Monorepo Experience: Experience with monorepo tooling and workflows (e.g., Turborepo, Nx), including shared packages, task pipelines, and cross-project dependencies.
• Education & Experience: BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience. 7+ years of experience building scalable, production-grade web applications using modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Next.js) and Node.js. Strong expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript, including asynchronous programming, generics, strict typing, and advanced ES6+ features. Deep knowledge of HTML and CSS, including responsive layout, cross-browser compatibility, accessibility, and performance optimization. Experience consuming and designing APIs (REST and GraphQL), including Apollo Client and microservices-based architectures. Proven experience modeling complex data flows for transactional and integration workflows. Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or OCI) and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes). Familiarity with distributed systems concepts including caching (Redis, Memcached) and messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ). Experience designing and developing highly scalable, high-performance applications. Strong debugging and performance troubleshooting skills, including use of monitoring/observability tools (e.g., OpenTelemetry, New Relic).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Exposure to popular proprietary or open-source CMS systems such as Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento
• 1+ years experience with one or more vector databases (e.g., TurboPuffer, Mongo Atlas)
• Cloud Focus: 3+ years experience working with Cloud technologies (AWS is strongly preferred)
• Frontend Skills: React/Next.js experience with fundamental HTML/CSS (layout, specificity, cross-browser compatibility)
• Collaboration: Proven experience in cross-team collaboration for requirements, implementation, and testing
• Certifications: Cloud certifications (GCP, AWS, OCI)
• AI Tooling & Standards: Experience with AI development tools (Cursor, Copilot, etc.) and with setting up guardrails—rules, commands, skills, sub-agents—to keep AI-generated code clean, consistent, and production-ready
• Theming & Styling: Experience with multiple styling approaches (Stylex, CSS Modules, SASS, CSS-in-JS) and design tokens in component libraries or design system

CBS Sports, a year-round leader in cross-platform sports coverage, broadcasts a portfolio of events on the CBS Television Network, including THE NFL ON CBS; college football, including the Big Ten ON CBS; college basketball, including the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship; golf, including The Masters®, PGA Championship and PGA TOUR; soccer, including the UEFA Champions League and NWSL; and CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR. In addition, the division includes CBS SPORTS NETWORK, the 24-hour cable home of CBS Sports which televises live sports programming throughout the year, including college football and basketball games, UEFA Champions League and Europa League action, Italy's Serie A matches, Concacaf national team competitions, as well as a full slate of original programming and studio coverage. CBS Sports also delivers an extensive lineup of global soccer coverage on Paramount+, including every UEFA club competition match, all Serie A matches as well as Concacaf national team competitions, and produces INSIDE THE NFL for Paramount+. CBS Sports Digital's multi-platform offerings include CBSSports.com and the CBS Sports apps for mobile and connected TV devices; the 24/7 streaming sports news network CBS Sports HQ; 247Sports; MaxPreps; CBS Sports fantasy games; and SportsLine.

What We Offer:

• Attractive compensation and comprehensive benefits packages.
• Generous paid time off.
• An exciting and fulfilling opportunity to be part of one of Paramount's most dynamic teams.
• Opportunities for both on-site and virtual engagement events.
• Unique opportunities to make meaningful connections and build a vibrant community, both inside and outside the workplace.

Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet. At Paramount, the spirit of inclusion feeds into everything that we do, on-screen and off. Paramount is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, and Veteran status.