Sr. Engineer, Software

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are…

When we say, "the stuff dreams are made of," we're not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD's vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what's next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Your New Role:
The Sr. Engineer, Software will assist the team as well as key stakeholders across various tasks related to multiple applications and business processes including improving business processes and aligning key metrics.

Your Role Accountabilities:

• Leads technical direction, discovery, execution, and delivery of new initiatives and provides operational support for solutions in production. This entails working across teams.

• Experienced with Agile and high-level planning, roadmaps, and sprint planning processes.

• Communicate effectively and facilitate meetings for collaboration efforts with other internal stakeholders. You are an excellent communicator capable of assessing a technical task and breaking it into smaller tasks in partnership with other engineers and product.

• Partner and collaborate with other teams.

• Contribute to documentation and code quality efforts across the platform through thoughtful code reviews and ensure code standards.

• Perform peer review of code for other engineers.

• Design and develop customer facing and internal applications. Build architectural diagrams that communicate what we need to build and how we need to build it.

• Offer enhancements to best practices, document, design, and architecture improvements, and as feedback through code reviews.

• Troubleshoot production issues by reviewing source code, logs, operational metrics, stack trace etc. to pinpoint a specific problem and then resolve it.

• Keep abreast of new technologies and best practices and know how to evaluate the tradeoffs of implementing new things.

• Mentor other engineers and support their growth.

Qualifications & Experiences:

5+ years of experience as a software developer working on Drupal platform.

• Full stack development experience, including coding abilities with JavaScript, Drupal/PHP, CSS/SASS, Nginx/Apache.

• High proficiency and technical leadership on CMS frameworks.

• Experience working with code repositories such as GitHub.

• Experience deploying containers within the AWS environment.

• Experience working within an Agile team, collaborating with others to build software and iteratively improving it.

• A willingness and ability to communicate with others on the team, participating in discussions with the team and with business stakeholders.

• The ability to solve business problems with simple and straightforward solutions, applying appropriate technologies and software engineering best practices.

• The ability to deliver high-quality results the first time and improve code, documentation, and results with each iteration.

• Experience of Operations, CI/CD, and DevOps.

• Knowledge of React, Next.js, Vue or similar frameworks.

• Experience building, testing and maintaining highly performant and highly visible applications.

• Experience with a wide range of technical topics, including AWS services, Cloud Platforms, frameworks, databases, API's and SDKs.

• Understanding of engineering best practices.

• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure and platforms.

• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills and can help others learn what you have learned.

• Experience building and maintaining applications on Cloud hosted infrastructure (experience on AWS preferred).

• Proficient with Jira, Slack, Confluence.

• Ability to work cross-functionally and facilitate daily tasks across dev and design teams.

• Superior analytical and problem-solving skills.

Not Required but preferred experience:

• Experience in a related field (media, entertainment or business development a plus).

• Experience working in a national or global company.

• Experience working with teams across multiple time zones.

• Experience developing Single Page Applications with a modern UI framework.

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

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, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

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