Staff Software Engineer

1 Month ago • 8 Years + • Full Stack Development

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Job Description

The Staff Software Engineer at Warner Bros. Discovery's DTC Boundary Services team will play a leadership role, contributing significantly to the design, architecture, and development of gateway, service mesh, and microservices. Responsibilities include mentoring junior engineers, influencing team strategies, enhancing best practices, and ensuring high-quality code delivery. The ideal candidate possesses strong technical expertise in Java, Spring, Spring Boot, and cloud technologies, and a proven ability to solve complex problems with straightforward solutions. This role demands strong individual contribution and thought leadership within a fast-growing, global engineering group.
Must have:
  • 8+ years Java, Spring, Spring Boot experience
  • Cloud technology expertise
  • Technical leadership & mentorship
  • Problem-solving skills
  • High-quality code delivery
Perks:
  • Thoughtfully curated benefits
  • Tools for growth and development
  • Supportive and celebrated work environment
  • Health insurance
  • Wellness program
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Retirement savings plan
  • Paid time off
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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.

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 WarnerMedia's premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Warner Bros Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.

For more information, please visit www.wbd.com

Meet Our Team:

DTC’s many software engineering teams build applications for the web, mobile, tablets, connected TVs, consoles, and other streaming devices. DTC’s Boundary Services team is responsible for building and maintaining the gateway, Service Mesh and a few microservices that provide common functionality to the client and backend services.

We are a fast-growing, global engineering group crucial to WBD’s future. We’re hiring a development leader who is comfortable turning the needs of our engineering community into thoughtful design and architecture, serving as a senior resource for other developers as they build software components. The engineer needs to be both a strong individual contributor in coding and a thought leader for the development team.

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • You play a leadership role across the organization. You are known for your subject matter expertise across Boundary Services technology and practice
  • You are a key influencer in multiple teams’ strategies across the engineering domain and provide significant contributions to planning across the teams.
  • You actively seek input where appropriate and engage your team to inform and share what
    you are doing.
  • You provide mentoring to junior engineers.
  • You describe your design, code, and architectural decisions to junior engineers, principal engineers, and leadership alike.
  • You embrace constructive feedback from these groups and adapt to align with organizational standards and objectives.
  • You 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.

What to Bring:

  • 8+ years, high proficiency and technical leadership with technologies on our stack including Java, Spring and Spring Boot
  • 6+ years' experience with Cloud Technology or strong familiarity and demonstrated ability to become expert
  • You drive best practices and set standards for your team.
  • 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.

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.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

If you’re a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, location, skill set, experience, and/or performance. Base pay is just one component of Warner Bros. Discovery’s total compensation package for employees. Pay Range: $145,600.00 - $270,400.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time and vacation.

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$145.6K - $270.4K/yr (Outscal est.)
$208.0K/yr avg.

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About The Company

Applicants – please be advised that all email correspondence by official Warner Bros. Games recruiters will come from the @lith.com, @warnerbros.com or @wbgames.com domains. Our agency recruiters who reach out through LinkedIn will also properly identify themselves as employees of the companies that work with us. All other parties claiming to be our recruiters are not affiliated with Warner Bros. Games, Monolith or any of our studios. Please take care not to share your personal information with these contacts, nor click on any links embedded in their messages. If you have any questions, you can reach out to us directly at recruiting@wbgames.com.

Warner Bros. Games brings some of the most iconic characters and stories in entertainment to life through videogame development. With multiple world class development studios located across North America and the UK, our teams are made up of top talent in the industry. We strive for an open and collaborative culture where our people can do what they do best – making great games.

Our 11 studios include: 

Warner Bros. Games (Burbank, CA)

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Warner Bros. Games San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)

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Warner Bros. Games San Diego (Carlsbad, CA)

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Warner Bros. Games Boston (Needham, MA)

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Warner Bros. Games New York (Troy, NY)

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Warner Bros. Games Montreal (Montreal, CA)

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NetherRealm Studios (Chicago, IL)

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Monolith Productions (Kirkland, WA)

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Avalanche (Salt Lake City, UT)

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Rocksteady Studios (London, UK)

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TT Games (Maidenhead, UK)

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