Job Summary:
Warner Bros. Discovery is a leading media and entertainment company, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join CNN's Growth Team. The role involves creating engaging features for users, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and contributing to the growth of CNN's digital business.
Responsibilities:
• Work primarily in modern JavaScript, maintaining and developing components
• Optimize code for performance and scalability
• Contribute to the code & architecture reviews and champion best practices for the organization by defining and evolving engineering standards
• Strong inter-team and cross-team communication
• Follow a progressive development methodology, moving from proofs of concept to prototypes to production releases
• Work closely with designers to implement user interfaces that are both functional and visually appealing.
• Ensure cross-browser compatibility and responsiveness of the application.
• Develop and maintain server-side logic using relevant back-end technologies.
• Integrate front-end elements with server-side logic seamlessly.
• Design and implement APIs for data exchange between client and server.
• Experience integrating 3rd party libraries
• Security first mindset
• Passionate about software engineering with a strong sense of ownership
• Working in Agile methodologies for organized and distributed work within the team
Qualifications:
Required:
• 5+ years of experience working with other developers on a production system
• 5+ years of experience with JavaScript, including ES6/7 and asynchronous JavaScript.
• Experience with performance monitoring and analytics tools like Datadog, New Relic, or similar.
• Ability to review group or company level priorities (such as OKRs) breaking down problems into meaningful tasks and solutions working with peers within the team cross-functionally across the organization.
• Deep industry experience with modern development technologies, and hands-on familiarity with both client and server technology.
• Have a solid understanding of common software data structures and algorithms
• You understand the constraints of working with a growing team and thrive in an environment that is fast pace.
• Work primarily in modern JavaScript, maintaining and developing components
• Optimize code for performance and scalability
• Contribute to the code & architecture reviews and champion best practices for the organization by defining and evolving engineering standards
• Strong inter-team and cross-team communication
• Follow a progressive development methodology, moving from proofs of concept to prototypes to production releases
• Work closely with designers to implement user interfaces that are both functional and visually appealing.
• Ensure cross-browser compatibility and responsiveness of the application.
• Develop and maintain server-side logic using relevant back-end technologies.
• Integrate front-end elements with server-side logic seamlessly.
• Design and implement APIs for data exchange between client and server.
• Experience integrating 3rd party libraries
• Security first mindset
• Passionate about software engineering with a strong sense of ownership
• Working in Agile methodologies for organized and distributed work within the team
Preferred:
• Experience developing CMS platforms preferred
• Experience using handlebars.js for templating and view logic where applicable.
• Experience in setting up, managing, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines using AWS tools and services.
• Some python experience preferred
• Experience with vue.js
• Experience integrating authorization and payment APIs within the application layer
• Experience A/B testing
Company:
CNN Worldwide is the most honored brand in cable news, reaching more individuals on television and online than any other cable news organization in the United States. Founded in 1980, the company is headquartered in Jakarta, IDN, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.