Senior Software Engineer, Warner Bros Discovery
Office located in Piet Heinkade, Amsterdam
Entertainment company
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Entertainment company
1001+ employees
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Office located in Piet Heinkade, Amsterdam
1001+ employees
Company mission
To take the world’s greatest possibilities and make them a reality - creating impact, inspiring imagination, and building connections.
Role
Who you are
- Seasoned software development experience
- Strong proficiency in Typescript (or other strongly typed language), GraphQL; familiarity with PostgreSQL and cloud services (AWS preferred)
- A passion for learning, sharing knowledge, mentoring, and working in a team setting with engineers of varying experience levels
- Demonstrable ability to clearly articulate difficult technical concepts and information
- Strong communication skills, ability to write technical docs and present ideas
- Be a quick learner that can leverage surrounding resources to solve problems, adapt to suggestions and feedback
- Critically evaluate code as a method of learning and know when and how to safely refactor code/artifacts
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Desirable
- Experience with Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum or Kanban) using industry leading toolset like JIRA, Confluence, etc. Must demonstrate support for the practices that allow for continuous deployment and incremental delivery of business value
- Proficiency working with technologies such as Fastly, Redis, Kubernetes, Docker, Git, and Github Actions
- Familiarity with Rust is a plus
What the job involves
- The WBD Sports Platform is responsible for supporting brands such as Bleacher Report, March Madness Live, Sports on Max, Eurosport and many more. We plan, design, and build for connected TVs, web, mobile phones, tablets, and consoles for a large footprint of leading products and brands
- Together with our cross-functional collaborators we operate as one company with one mission to be the premier media and entertainment leader globally
- The Senior Engineer role specifically will be focused on the federated services for the WBD Sports Platform. We are seeking a skilled and experienced Senior Engineer to join our dynamic team
- You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions that meet our customers' needs and drive our business forward. You will implement solutions that require a long- term view. This role requires in-depth knowledge of industry trends and WBD goals
- Be part of a Sports Technology team focused on backend services and highly performant API platform; Sports Technology supports brands such as Bleacher Report, NCAA, and MML to name a few
- Work collaboratively with other backend and client developers, project managers, and technical product managers to deliver a best-in-class product
- Work with peers to evaluate different technical approaches and reach consensus on approach implementation
- Responsible for thorough testing (unit, API, load) and helping implement observability solutions for robust and scalable services
- Maintain and improve the performance of existing applications
- Contribute to planning, design, implementation, documentation, and continuous improvement of internal processes
- Work in an agile environment, participate in the code review process and deploy world-class features while maintaining respectful relationships
- Provide on-call support, handle operational issues, and troubleshoot bugs independently
Our take
Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) is an entertainment company formed from the 2022 merger of Warner Bros and Discovery. It is a leader in the creation, production, distribution, licensing, and marketing of content, with Warner Bros alone boasting a huge library – more than 100,000 hours of programming – before the companies were joined. WBD’s portfolio includes Discovery Channel, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Discovery+, HBO Max, and franchises like “Batman” and “Harry Potter”.
Both of the company’s previous businesses have operated throughout the digitisation of the media space. David Zaslav, CEO of WBD, headed Discovery during its expansion into digital media, to make it a “content company” over a “cable company”. The recent focus for Warner Bros has been on next-gen distribution efforts, expanding the availability of its content across platforms and devices to reach the modern viewer. The new company has plans to migrate to one tech stack, which will require extensive retooling, as well as exploring cost-saving automation opportunities for its operations.
Since the merger, the new giant that is Warner Bros Discovery has had a shaky start, forcing the company to wind down operations and cut back on content, which included the very public scrapping of the “Batgirl” movie. However, it now seems the company may have been ahead of the curve, as a wider trend of cutbacks has been seen from peers in the space. This early move, combined with a hyper-focus on cash generation, seeks to establish WBD as an outperformer in an industry on the downturn.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
Leadership
David Zaslav
(CEO, not founder)Spent 17 years at NBCUniversal including as President of NBC Cable LLC and NBC Media LLC.
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