Staff Software Engineer, WBD Sports

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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.

Your New Role…

WBD Sports encompasses a wide range of sports brands and channels, reaching over 130 million people monthly in more than 200 markets and 20+ languages. Our key brands include Bleacher Report, Eurosport and TNT Sports. WBD Sports offers a comprehensive coverage of major sports events, like the Olympics in Europe, tennis Grand Slams and road cycling Grand Tours (e.g. Tour de France) across various platforms including TV and streaming services like Max and Discovery+.

Additionally, it manages and promotes 55 global events annually. TNT Sports UK features exclusive live sports such as the Premier League and UEFA Champions League.

As we continue to grow and innovate in a fast-paced, highly-competitive digital environment, we are seeking a Staff Software Engineer who will be a key member of the WBD Global Sports Tech team, responsible for building and maintaining systems supporting Warner Bros. Discovery’s family of Sports products / brands, including Eurosport, NCAA / MML, and Bleacher Report.

You will work closely with product / project managers, users, development staff, and senior leadership to implement designs, develop and deploy fan-facing solutions.

Your Role Accountabilities…

Own and drive key initiatives supporting the developer workflow from PR to release.

Lead initiatives that drive innovations in Sports and deliver technical solutions.

Collaborate with partner engineering teams for inputs, support, and guidance.

Establish best practices, set exemplary coding standards and drive operational practices for your team.

Demonstrate excellent ability to document technical solutions and articulate them to both business and technical audiences.

Present, advocate and champion engineering perspectives.

Participate in Agile ceremonies and show ownership of work throughout the sprint process.

Build and maintain highly available, low-latency systems that successfully serve sports content to customers in production environments.

Integrate service health, monitoring, alerting and documentation capabilities in parallel to your software development deliverables.

Coach and mentor engineers up to Senior Software Engineer level, providing input to leadership on team development and growth opportunities.

Skills

8+ years of demonstrated expertise in building scalable web applications using TypeScript and modern JavaScript including Node and NextJS - including type systems and advanced language features.

5+ years of React experience, including working experience with functional components and hooks.

Strong experience with REST and GraphQL APIs.

Advanced proficiency in TDD, unit / integration testing strategies, code reviews, and establishing testing standards across complex applications.

Deployment :

Automated using Terraform / Github Actions on AWS, continuous integration and delivery (CI / CD)

Experience with NextJS including App Router, server / client components, and SSR / SSG concepts.

Experience optimizing SEO performance metrics (e.g., Core Web Vitals).

Experience with build tools (e.g., Rush, Heft, Docker) and CI / CD pipelines.

Experience translating complex design features into modular components using design software (e.g., Figma).

Solid performance optimization and monitoring expertise for high-traffic applications.

Ability to create functional-level impact and deliver complex features with little to no oversight.

Effective communication skills as exemplified by technical documentation deliverables, and stakeholder and adjacent teams interactions.

Nice to Haves…

Working experience with Jest.

Experience with Material UI (MUI) for theming and component development.

Understanding of accessibility best practices and SEO is highly desired.

Experience with Kubernetes or ECS.

Experience integrating AdTech solutions.

Experience working with design tokens.

Experience creating and documenting components in isolation with Storybook.

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 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, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

If you’re a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and / or recruitment process, please visit our

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