Senior Software Engineer - Front End

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.

Senior Software Engineer - Front End Engineer - Hyderabad – Hybrid

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 Data & Analytics organization is at the forefront of developing and maintaining frameworks, tools, and data products vital to WBD, including flagship streaming product Max and non streaming products such as Films Group, Sports, News and overall WBD ecosystem.  Our mission is to foster unified analytics and drive data driven use cases by leveraging a robust multitenant platform and semantic layer. We are committed to delivering innovative solutions that empower teams across the company to catalyze subscriber growth, amplify engagement, and execute timely, informed decisions, ensuring our continued success in an ever-evolving digital landscape. This team will support studios, sports, news and corporate as well.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• The ideal candidate has a track record of creating the identity for a team and defining how that team works within a larger organization.

• You have mastered the ability to delegate both tasks, and larger assignments to your team, and ensure that the right results are achieved even without your constant oversight.

• Become a key part of an exciting, collaborative, cross-functional team.

• Work with engineering leadership to figure out technical challenges and make architecture decisions.

• Work closely with your peers across engineering, product, design, editorial, marketing and operations to create products that people love to come to work and use.

• Work in rapid iterations, always looking to deliver the best possible version of a product.

• Develop and ship fast, tested, resilient, high-quality code that others find easy to comprehend and modify while planning for the long term health of the codebase and all its touch points. This also includes proper code coverage through unit tests and technical documentation and code commenting.

• Troubleshoot a production issue by reviewing source code, logs, operational metrics, stack trace etc to pinpoint a specific problem and then resolve it.

• Keep abreast of new technologies and best practices and know how to evaluate the tradeoffs of implementing new things.

• Ability to break big problems or features into small components and solve them.

• Demonstrated good software ownership practices in all of your contributions and where your code reviews are uneventful, you prepare documentation proactively, and you ensure proper monitoring for operational excellence in production

What to Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field from an accredited college or university, or commensurate experience.

• 5 - 8 years of experience developing business logic for JavaScript/TypeScript based applications.

• Experience with NextJS

• Experience writing contracts and technical approach documentation that has been subject to peer review and socialized across multiple teams.

• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure and platforms.

• Knowledge of large-scale application architecture, design, implementation, and performance tuning.

• Be intellectually curious and look for opportunities to expand your technical and personal skill set.

• Empathy for users and teammates, and care as much about how the systems you create impact your users and fellow engineers as you do about the code itself.

• Excited to work in a highly collaborative environment.

• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills and can help others learn what you have learned. Can adapt communication style for different audiences.

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.

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, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

If you’re a qualified candidate and you require adjustments or accommodations to search for a job opening or apply for a position, please contact us at recruitadmin@wbd.com.