Senior Software Developer, CNN AD Experiences

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About the Job

CNN is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Ad Experiences team. This is a great opportunity for an individual that is passionate about building digital products that balance company goals and a great user experience. The Ad Experiences team is building new digital advertisement experiences on CNN to support a premium news experience and engages our audiences as well as new capabilities that enable the business to improve revenue web performance and overall resiliency of advertisements on CNN. If this role sounds interesting to you and you would like to help the team with these opportunities come join us!

About the Team

As a Senior Software Engineer you will work on a cross-functional team that is focused on building products and capabilities to enhance the experience on . Your team is compromised with Technical Design and Product leads and a team of engineers that support each other through the planning development review and deployment processes. You will play a crucial part on the team as you will be responsible for feature development quality code peer reviews and operational support.

The Daily

• Full stack development with JavaScript HTML CSS incorporating semantic code accessibility and responsive design methodologies

• Responsible for owning implementing developing and maintaining complete high-priority features with thorough testing

• Work with a cross functional team in an agile environment and contributing to Scrum Planning Retros and Demos

• Support others on your team through code reviews pairing desk checks and collaboration

The Essentials

• Understand engineering best practices design patterns reviews testing and alerting

• Proficient on the command line in concert with Git Docker and AWS

• Unit testing experience using frameworks such as Jest Jasmine and Mocha

• Passionate about improving the code you touch and interact with.

• Excited to learn and ready to take on new challenges.

• Excellent communicator with your team members and peers.

• Excited to add positively to the culture of CNN both from an interpersonal level and from a code improvement standpoint.

The Nice to Haves

• Advertisement development and integration experience

• Advanced Experience with AWS services or other Cloud Platforms

• Knowledge of relational databases SQL and NoSQL

• AB testing and consumer testing platform experience

• Familiarity with Design Systems Component Libraries and Atomic Design

• Familiarity with other modern programming languages frameworks platforms APIs and/or SDKs.

• Knowledge of Operations CI/CD DevOps with exposure to escalation protocols PagerDuty Kubernetes Jenkins CodePipeline etc..

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