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Staff Software Engineer - CNN Digital
The Job
Warner Bros. Discovery seeks a Staff-level Software Engineer for CNN Storytelling's politics efforts with a focus on digital cartography. The expectations and responsibilities of a Staff Engineer are a significant step up from a Senior Engineer. CNN is the world's most essential and engaging source of video and digital news, and we're embarking on a crucial mission to invent the next generation news and information experiences online. You'll be joining an empowered cross-functional team building the trusted new digital products, platforms, and formats that put CNN's talent, expertise, and content programming - and the directions it goes next - directly in the hands of consumers. The Internet is changing the news and information landscape, and we have an ambitious product roadmap grounded in journalism and facts. Our team has a unique ability to marry content, design, product, and technology to spark connection, fulfill utility, and build community.
The Daily
- Lead our cartographic capabilities across digital, broadcast, and other formats.
- Help drive the architecture and implementation of various mapping components through significant expertise with Mapbox, d3, and more
- Help educate team members to get them up to speed on digital cartography concepts so they are able to quickly contribute to the development of those components
- Effectively communicate complicated software concepts and business value in a way your target audience will understand
- Lead code & architecture reviews and champion best practices for the organization by defining and evolving engineering standards
- Work primarily in modern Javascript, Typescript, and Python using AWS services
- Code! Be passionate about software engineering with a strong sense of ownership for the code that you and your team write
- Fail up, learn from research and experiments and ultimately choose the best solution to succeed the company objectives
- Follow a progressive development methodology, moving from proofs of concept to prototypes to production releases
- Participate in collaborative discussions with the product design and development team to select approaches and implementation details with an eye toward resiliency, agility, and simplicity.
The Essentials
- Proven ability to use digital cartography to tell data-driven stories and to lead multiple, significant products simultaneously
- You are a strong team player with proven ability to work cross-functionally with humility and a sense of humor
- Demonstrated ability to partner with multiple internal and external stakeholders to deliver your product
- Our deadlines are literally set in the U.S. Constitution and in federal legislation. You've shown you can deliver against immovable dates while still maintaining work-life balance
- Ability to work in a dynamic and nimble environment which can pivot very quickly to reflect the changing needs of the company
- Outstanding organizational, interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong work ethic, integrity and collaborative approach to work
- Ability to think strategically and to translate ideas into actions
- Significant 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
- A passion to grow professionally and continue developing along an individual contributor path
What will set you apart from the crowd:
- Knowledge of and personal interest in politics. You will be building software to tell the story of the 2024 election and beyond to a global audience of 100+ million people and passion for the subject matter helps
- Experience with Mapbox tile formats and the generation of tiles using tools like Tippecanoe
- Experience working with government civics data like the U.S. Census Bureau API, FRED API, Bureau of Labor Statistics, etc.
- Active in the technology community
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.
The Legal Bits...
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. 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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