Staff Software Engineer

Warner Bros. Discovery

full-time

Posted on: 9/22/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States

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About the role

Lead technical efforts to build out world-class connected TV streaming video applications across an ever-growing number of devices and platforms.
Technical ownership of major features and product initiatives for connected TV applications.
Focus on shipping: brand new features, platform ports, and bug fixes.
Take an undefined problem statement, work with a cross functional team to turn it into a concrete, well-scoped technical plan, and deliver a high quality solution.
Mentor and guide other engineers; ensure team follows high quality software engineering practices - continuous integration, effective test coverage, automated testing, positive and constructive code reviews, and low friction development environments.
Lead discussions, create documentation, or create work tickets to provide detail, context, and direction for engineers.
Lead or participate in technical design and discovery activities to support product roadmap definition.
Contribute to high level planning, roadmap definition, and architecture design with teams across the organization.
Provide technical mentorship, teach engineering best practices and debugging techniques, and perform code reviews.

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: Experience developing connected TV or mobile applications, especially using JavaScript frameworks.
Bonus: Experience developing an application in a resource constrained environment (e.g limited GPU, CPU, Memory)
Bonus: Demonstrated success in rapidly learning new technologies, languages, or frameworks
Bonus: Passionate about performance and creating amazing experiences for CNN users