Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

The CNN Growth team is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help build and evolve the systems and user experiences that drive audience growth, engagement, and monetization across CNN's digital platforms. This role is ideal for a strong senior individual contributor who enjoys building high quality software, collaborating closely with teammates, and taking ownership of meaningful technical problems in a fast moving, consumer focused environment.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be a key contributor on a newly forming team. You will work hands on across the stack, delivering reliable, performant features while contributing to technical discussions, code quality, and engineering best practices. You will partner closely with designers, product managers, and other engineers to turn ideas into production ready solutions. You will also help ensure systems are scalable, secure, and maintainable as the team and platform grow.

What you will do:

• Design, build, and maintain production ready software systems and user facing features
• Work primarily in modern JavaScript, maintaining and developing components and services
• Collaborate closely with designers to implement interfaces that are functional, accessible, and visually polished
• Optimize code for performance, scalability, and reliability
• Develop and maintain server side logic and APIs for client server communication
• Integrate front end elements with back end systems seamlessly
• Participate in code and architecture reviews and champion engineering best practices
• Follow a progressive development approach from proof of concept through production release
• Integrate third party libraries and services responsibly and securely
• Identify and address security, performance, and quality risks early
• Work within Agile development practices on a distributed team
• Communicate clearly within the team and across teams to drive alignment and delivery

Our tech stack:

Our teams primarily use JavaScript and TypeScript across modern web architectures, supported by Node, Python, and AWS. We value pragmatic technology choices and build systems that integrate internal platforms, third party services, and cloud infrastructure. Technologies include JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, Python, Svelte, Sass, AWS services, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools.

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience building and maintaining production software systems
• 4+ years of experience with JavaScript, including modern ES6+ and asynchronous patterns
• Experience designing and implementing APIs and web applications
• Solid understanding of performance optimization, security, and system design principles
• Experience with performance monitoring and analytics tools such as Datadog or New Relic
• Strong collaboration and communication skills within and across teams
• Experience working in Agile development environments
• Hands on familiarity with both client side and server side development
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability for delivered work
• Ability to break down broader goals into clear technical tasks and solutions

Nice to have:

• Experience developing or contributing to CMS platforms
• Experience with templating systems such as Handlebars
• Experience setting up, managing, or improving CI/CD pipelines using AWS tools
• Some Python experience
• Experience with frontend frameworks such as Vue, Svelte, or React
• Experience integrating authorization, identity, payment, or subscription APIs
• Experience with A/B testing or experimentation platforms

About you:

You are passionate about software engineering and take pride in high quality work. You thrive in fast paced environments with evolving requirements. You enjoy collaborating closely with designers, product partners, and engineers. You balance execution speed with thoughtful technical decision making. You want to build products that reach large audiences and make a real impact.

Championing Inclusion at WBD:

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

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