Staff Software Developer
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Staff Software Engineer, CNN Connected TV Devices
Job Description
The Job
As a Staff Software Engineer, CNN Connected TV Devices, you will lead technical efforts to build out world-class connected TV streaming video applications across an ever-growing number of devices and platforms, in order to bring CNN to our users!
In this role, you'll have technical ownership of major features and product initiatives for our connected TV applications. Your main focus will be on shipping: everything from brand new features, to platform ports, to bug fixes. You'll be successful in this role if you can take an undefined problem statement, work with a cross functional team to turn it into a concrete, well-scoped technical plan, and then deliver a high quality solution in a consistent and predictable way. This requires strong technical and non-technical communication skills, and deep knowledge of the full connected TV app development lifecycle.
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In this role, you'll be expected to make significant individual contributions, but you'll also act as a technical leader on the team. You'll mentor and guide other engineers in their day to day work. You'll ensure the team is following high quality software engineering practices - continuous integration, effective test coverage, automated testing, positive and constructive code reviews, and low friction development environments. Finally, as a leader in the engineering organization, you'll model and evangelize a positive, inclusive, and constructive way of working for your team.
The Daily
• Make significant, high quality code contributions to the project.
• Lead discussions, create documentation, or create work tickets to ensure other engineers on the team have enough detail, context, and direction on their current and future projects to make progress autonomously.
• Lead or participate in technical design and discovery activities within your team to support product roadmap definition.
• Contribute to high level planning, roadmap definition, and architecture design with teams across the organization.
• Provide technical mentorship to other engineers - provide positive, constructive code reviews; teach engineering best practices and debugging techniques; give pointers to educational resources; etc.
Requirements
• Experience leading a team of developers from technical perspective, removing blockers, and effective delivery.
• Extensive experience in one of the following: React Native, Lightning framework, WebGL, or a modern web framework (i.e. Angular, Vue, Svelte, React, etc).
• Experience with Typescript.
• Extensive experience in building, testing, shipping, and maintaining highly performant consumer applications
• Demonstrated success in working with a cross functional team to deliver high quality software in an iterative, predictable, and sustainable way.
• Demonstrated experience in working effectively with ambiguous or uncertain requirements.
• Demonstrated success in evangelizing for high quality software development practices on a team - appropriate test coverage, automation, CI/CD, etc.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, and experience in effectively communicating with both technical and non-technical job functions within an organization.
Bonus Points
• Experience developing connected TV or mobile applications, especially using JavaScript frameworks.
• Experience developing an application in a resource constrained environment (e.g limited GPU, CPU, Memory)
• Demonstrated success in rapidly learning new technologies, languages, or frameworks
• Passionate about performance and creating amazing experiences for CNN users
How We Get Things Done...
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Championing Inclusion at WBD
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Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- FSA With Employer Contribution
- HSA
- HSA With Employer Contribution
- Fitness Subsidies
- On-Site Gym
- FSA
- Mental Health Benefits
- Virtual Fitness Classes
Parental Benefits
- Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
- Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
- Adoption Leave
- Fertility Benefits
- Adoption Assistance Program
- Family Support Resources
- On-site/Nearby Childcare
Work Flexibility
- Flexible Work Hours
- Hybrid Work Opportunities
Office Life and Perks
- Commuter Benefits Program
- Casual Dress
- Happy Hours
- Company Outings
- Snacks
- On-Site Cafeteria
- Holiday Events
Vacation and Time Off
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Holidays
- Personal/Sick Days
- Leave of Absence
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Sabbatical
- Volunteer Time Off
- Summer Fridays
Financial and Retirement
- 401(K) With Company Matching
- Company Equity
- Stock Purchase Program
- Performance Bonus
- Relocation Assistance
- Financial Counseling
- 401(K)
- Profit Sharing
Professional Development
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Promote From Within
- Mentor Program
- Shadowing Opportunities
- Lunch and Learns
- Internship Program
- Work Visa Sponsorship
- Leadership Training Program
- Associate or Rotational Training Program
- Learning and Development Stipend
- Access to Online Courses
- Professional Coaching
Diversity and Inclusion
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
- Employee Resource Groups (ERG)