Software Engineer II (Mid-Level) JVM
Job Summary
Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery the stuff dreams are made of.
Who We Are
When we say the stuff dreams are made of were not just referring to the world of wizards dragons and superheroes or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBDs 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 whats 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.
Warner Bros. has been entertaining audiences for more than 90 years through the worlds most-loved characters and franchises. Warner Bros. employs people all over the world in a wide variety of disciplines. Were always on the lookout for energetic creative people to join our team.
Your New Role...
The Direct to Consumer (DTC) Group is a technology company within Warner Bros Discovery. We are building a global streaming video platform (OTT) and a suite of applications to support all of our networks digital brands globally. We are building modern container-based micro-services operated on AWS. Our platform covers everything from search browse content catalog merchandising localizations personalization and much more. We enable performant streaming experiences across connected TVs web mobile phones tablets and consoles for a large footprint of WBD owned streaming services (HBO Max Discovery CNN and others). This is a growing global engineering group crucial to WBDs future.
We are hiring a Software Engineer II within the DTC Content Experience Platform. The team is responsible for aggregating enabling and serving the personalized Content Discovery experience within our DTC streaming video platforms through our Experience Services APIs. We ensure all client applications worldwide have seamless access to the latest and relevant content metadata personalized browse experiences and curations and presentational elements to deliver a best-in-class content discovery experience to our hundreds of millions of streaming users globally across our different streaming service platforms.
Your Role Accountabilities...
Design implement and maintain features or improvements in existing backend systems.
Troubleshoot production issuesidentify root causes contribute to fixes and help improve system resilience through learnings.
Actively participate in technical discussions design reviews and planning sessionsbringing thoughtful questions and ideas to the table.
Write clean maintainable and well-tested code following team standards and contributing to code quality.
Collaborate closely with teammates product managers and designers to understand requirements and deliver high-quality software.
Contribute to improving development workflows documentation and internal tools to increase team productivity.
Learn and apply best practices in system design testing observability and deployment through hands-on experience and mentorship.
Qualifications and Experience...
Minimum 3 years hands-on experience developing backend services using Java or other JVM-based languages.
Familiarity with building and running applications in cloud environments using tools like Docker Kubernetes and AWS.
Experience with distributed systems and microservice architectures
Familiarity with sync and async communication patterns using technologies such as gRPC Kafka or similar technologies
Demonstrated ability to design and deliver high-performance low-latency APIs for real-time applications.
Working knowledge of datastores and caching technologies such as PostgreSQL DynamoDB Redis Elasticsearch or Caffeine.
Exposure toperformance considerations scalability challenges and system observability in real-world applications.
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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 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 a wide array of perspectives backgrounds and experiences. 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 youre 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.
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Key Skills
About Company
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 entertainme ... View more