Staff Software Engineer - Fullstack Developer (Backend)

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.

Staff Software Engineer - Fullstack developer (Backend) (MSC team),Bangalore

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 Media Supply Chain Engineering team builds the applications and services that power Warner Bros Discovery’s content supply chain.  Our applications cover the entire breadth of the media supply chain, from idea to distribution.  We have a robust global community of thousands of internal Warner Bros Discovery users who rely on our apps every day to get television produced, on the air, and onto Max.

As the Staff Software Engineer, you will assume a technical leadership role on the team and work with Product and other Architects and Engineers across geography and teams of various other supply chain products to deliver on new product features, initiatives and integration. With your deep technical knowledge, you will lead conversations for planning, development and offer expert recommendations for strategies, integration and best practices to help support delivery of in-house product solutions.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Translate functional specifications into logical, component-based technical designs
• Key technical contributor to the design and implementation of core software components of MSC platform
• Take complete ownership and accountability of feature requirements from conception till delivery and continue to manage, sustain and optimize the system

• Collaborate with the product, business, design and engineering functions to be on top of your team's deliverables & milestones

• Timely delivery of highly reliable and scalable engineering architecture, and high quality, maintainable and operationally excellent code for your team

• Serves as the functional lead, possesses deep knowledge of core systems,
• Lead design discussions and code reviews

What to Bring:

• 12+ years of experience developing scalable software using microservices

• Experience in developing solutions in Node Js contemporary JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular).

• Experience in backend and frontend software development, building micro services, event driven architectures/solutions.

• Experience in private and public API design and cross-service integrations.

• Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g., unit testing, design patterns, building maintainable code, performance)

• Familiarity with a range of database technologies, encompassing both SQL and NoSQL options.

• Usage and deep understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS services

• Experience building, operating, and owning services. Implementing operational excellence mechanisms including alerting, metrics, and logging using Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana, PagerDuty

• Ability to work with minimal instructions on day-to-day work, able to consume and self-start with general instructions on new assignments. Participates in an inclusive and supportive engineering culture.

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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