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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.
Software Engineer II – Entertainment Platform
Job Summary
We are hiring a Software Development Engineer to join the Entertainment Web Platform team. The ideal candidate has a track record of having built multiple high-performance, stable, scalable systems that have been successfully shipped to customers in production. Your work and your approach to work are exemplary: you drive best practices and set standards for your team. You are a key influencer in your team’s strategy and contribute significantly to team planning. You show good judgment in making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs. You are a collaborative leader that makes other engineers and team members around you more productive, by sharing your knowledge, and helping to tie-break key technical decisions. You provide mentoring to other engineers.
An ideal candidate will be a creative thinker, result-driven and passionate about consumer web experiences & drive innovation and produce delightful experiences for our customers. This person will advocate for data-driven decision making, have an insatiable curiosity, love to invent and innovate to solve difficult problems, and obsess about their customers. The candidate will have a strong point of view but remain open-minded should evidence lead elsewhere. This engineer takes ownership of their work and consistently delivers results in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
Work with a team of highly motivated developers to effectively implement solutions and deliver production quality applications that are highly supportable and maintainable
Will write clean and documented code & tests
You are able to lead the design and development of more complex feature enhancements involving yourself and one or more additional engineers. You solve business problems with simple and straightforward solutions, applying appropriate technologies and software engineering best practices.
You need little oversight to work within the team’s software development lifecycle practices. You can help newcomers to be productive with the team’s processes. You deliver high-quality results the first time and improve code, documentation, and results with each iteration.
You are an effective communicator as exemplified by your technical documentation, and your interactions with stakeholders and adjacent teams.
Skills / Experience
Bachelors in Computer Science or equivalent work experience preferred
3+ years of experience developing solutions in Javascript , Typescript, Node.js, React, other web development frameworks
Ability to communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audences
Ability to critically evaluate and contribute to code reviews / pull requests
Node.js experience a plus
Full-stack Web development experience preferred
A good understanding of AWS services
Good understanding of CI/CD tools like Jenkins and Github Action
DevOps experience (AWS preferred) architecting, configuring cloud technology stacks a plus
CMS development experience a plus
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…
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