Senior Staff Software Developer

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Senior Staff Software Developer CNN Connected TV Devices (Javascript)

As a Senior Staff Software Developer CNN Connected TV Devices you will lead technical efforts to build out world-class connected TV streaming video applications across an ever-growing number of devices and platforms in order to bring CNN to our users!

In this role youll have technical ownership of major features and product initiatives for our connected TV applications. Your main focus will be on shipping: everything from brand new features to platform ports to bug fixes. Youll be successful in this role if you can take an undefined problem statement work with a cross functional team to turn it into a concrete well-scoped technical plan and then deliver a high quality solution in a consistent and predictable way. This requires strong technical and non-technical communication skills and deep knowledge of the full connected TV app development lifecycle.

In this role youll be expected to make significant individual contributions but youll also act as a technical leader on the team. Youll mentor and guide other engineers in their day to day work. Youll ensure the team is following high quality software engineering practices - continuous integration effective test coverage automated testing positive and constructive code reviews and low friction development environments. Finally as a leader in the engineering organization youll model and evangelize a positive inclusive and constructive way of working for your team.

The Daily

• Make significant high quality code contributions to the project.
• Lead discussions create documentation or create work tickets to ensure other engineers on the team have enough detail context and direction on their current and future projects to make progress autonomously.
• Lead or participate in technical design and discovery activities within your team to support product roadmap definition.
• Contribute to high level planning roadmap definition and architecture design with teams across the organization.
• Provide technical mentorship to other engineers - provide positive constructive code reviews; teach engineering best practices and debugging techniques; give pointers to educational resources; etc.

Requirements

• Significant experience in building testing shipping and maintaining consumer applications.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and experience in effectively communicating with both technical and non-technical job functions within an organization.
• Demonstrated success in working with a team to deliver high quality software in an iterative predictable and sustainable way.
• Experience with the Lightning framework WebGL or a modern web framework (Angular Vue Svelte React etc)
• Experience with Typescript

Bonus Points

• Experience developing connected TV applications
• Experience developing an application in a resource constrained environment (e.g limited GPU CPU Memory)
• Demonstrated success in evangelizing for high quality software development practices on a team - appropriate test coverage automation CI/CD etc.
• Demonstrated success in rapidly learning new technologies languages or frameworks
• Passionate about performance and creating amazing experiences for CNN users

Additional Information

On June 9 2025 Warner Bros. Discovery announced plans to separate into two publicly traded companies Warner Bros. and Discovery Global with an expected completion in mid-2026. For more details including leadership appointments and information on individual brands please visit our newsroomhere.

Although you will be hired by Warner Bros. Discovery upon the planned separation in 2026 your employmentlikely willtransition to Discovery Global. During this period of transformationyoullhave an exciting opportunity to lay the foundation at one of the worlds premier entertainment brands.

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