Staff Software Engineer

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.

Max is where storytelling takes center stage and where creatives find a home with the support and resources to do their best work, no matter the genre or format. Whatever the viewer wants to watch is front and center and more of what they crave is easily discovered. It is where our exclusive Max Originals and iconic entertainment brands thrive, with HBO, HBO Max, Warner Bros., DC, Turner Classic Movies, Cartoon Network and more delivering the greatest array of series, movies, and specials for audiences of all ages. HBO Max originally launched in the United States in May 2020 and introduced a lower priced, advertising-supported tier in June 2021. It rolled out globally across Latin America and the Caribbean in 2021, followed by its first European launches in the Nordics and Spain later that year. In May 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery introduced Max, an enhanced streaming platform, in the U.S. HBO Max is currently available in 46 countries and there are plans for the continued global expansion of Max in 2024.

Meet Our Team:
The Content Systems/MSC Engineering team builds the applications and services that power Warner Bros Discovery's content supply chain. Our applications cover the entire breadth of the media supply chain, from idea to distribution. We have a robust global community of thousands of internal Warner Bros Discovery users who rely on our apps every day to get television produced, on the air, and into streaming.
We're looking for a developer who can be an integral part of our development team in Warner Bros Discovery's Knoxville office. We need a full stack developer who's comfortable building, implementing, and consuming RESTful APIs for enterprise solutions. Our current service tier is a blend of Java and Angular services. We're transitioning existing applications to a micro-front end featuring reusable components and loosely-coupled micro-apps. As a full-stack developer you'd be working alongside our current development team that features other full-stack developers along with some specialists dedicated to either front-end or back-end layers. No need to be an expert in everything, but we need you to be comfortable in your skills in each layer to contribute to it. Requirements and designs don't deliver set in stone, so we would like you to be able to think on your feet and fill in the blanks when necessary.

• Build application service layers and UIs to support Warner Bros Discovery's content supply chain.

• Lead design components and complex architecture with little oversight. You solve business problems with simple and straightforward solutions, applying appropriate technologies and software engineering best practices. Build architectural diagrams that communicate what we need to build and how we need to build it.

• Describe and defend your design and code decisions to other engineers, embrace constructive feedback, and adapt your approach to align with team and company standards and objectives.

• You are a collaborative leader that makes other engineers and team members around you more productive, by sharing your knowledge, and helping to break key technical decisions. You provide mentoring to other engineers, pushing them to grow in their skills, communication, and design.

• Offer enhancements to best practices, document, design, and architecture improvements, and as feedback through code reviews to other engineers without continuous prompting or recurring encouragement. Other engineers appreciate your feedback.

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

• 7-10 years of experience as a software developer - full stack preferred

• Experience with event driven architecture or asynchronous messaging services

• Experience developing Single Page Applications with a modern UI framework

• High proficiency and technical leadership with technologies on our stack including Java (Spring) and Node JS, and Angular 6 and higher and Golang preferred

• Knowledge and experience in SQL, Mongo DB, postgresDb

• Experience with automated build and deployment strategies.

• Experience with Spring, Spring Cloud, Junit, Flash.

• Experience working within a SAFe Agile team, collaborating with others to build software and iteratively improve it

• Mastery of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

• You have a proven track record of designing and building applications for media workflows, media catalogs, and asset registries (preferred)

• You are an effective communicator, demonstrating this in your discussions with the team and stakeholders and through your documentation

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

• You deliver high-quality results the first time and improve code, documentation, and results with each iteration. Your team trusts your work.