Manager, Software Engineering - Backend (Adtech Team)

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.

Manager, Software Engineering - Backend (Adtech Team) Pune

About Warner Bros. Discovery:

Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines Warner Media’s premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.

For more information, please visit www.wbd.com

Meet Our Team:

The Ad Tech group works on building state-of-the-art Ad technology platforms and services that power the Discovery + and other digital services offered by Warner Bros. Discovery globally.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• You are experienced and capable of playing a leading role to design and develop major functional changes to existing software systems, or new ones, involving yourself and other Engineers.
• You make good decisions and exercise accurate judgement when choosing to build new vs extending existing ones.
• You provide guidance on design, coding, and operational best practices, and have a track-record of applying these best practices to software that you have worked on
• You propose and proactively seek to establish best practices where none exist.
• You make high impact decisions driving, what and how software is built.
• You analyse requirements, study software architectures and designs to make decisions suiting the requirements. You are often right, and you are persuasive in delivering your suggestions and ideas to your team.
• You mentor junior Engineers, overseeing their designs, code quality, and integration into a team. Your success is judged as much on your own productivity as on the positive impact you have on Engineers around you.
• You communicate through data, dates, and facts, applying them as appropriate to motivate and inspire.
• You are comfortable with scrum agile methodologies, adapting best engineering practices by showing people, not just telling people.
• You are equally passionate about code testability as you are for writing methodical, readable code.

What to Bring:

• 13 - 16 years, Proficient in Java 8+, including use of Futures and Streams
• You are proficient in Reactive programming, asynchronous, non-blocking backend engineering    languages like Java, Go, Node JS, etc. Also familiar with UI technologies like angular.
• Experience with one or more of: PostgreSQL and MySQL, Caching solutions (such as Redis and Guava), Search engine technology (preferably Elasticsearch)
• Knowledge of, and professional experience with most AWS services, and deeper knowledge of EC2, S3, Kinesis, CloudFront and CloudWatch
• Usage and deep understanding of Docker and Kubernetes

What We Offer:

• A Great Place to work
• Equal opportunity employer
• Fast track growth opportunities

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.

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