Manager, Software Development

Job Description

Come join our team!
The CNN Registration & Subscriptions team is hiring a Software Engineering Manager. This is a great opportunity for an individual that is passionate about building direct-to-consumer subscription products, features, and capabilities to grow our registered user audience. The team focuses on leveraging the latest technology to empower premium experiences that reaches users across a diverse set of platforms

As a Software Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for people management on a team of 4+ engineers, delivering engaging products for our audiences, and setting technical direction. You will provide support for the individuals you manage to advance their careers and give them the valuable feedback they need to grow. You will help identify stretch goals, areas of growth, and opportunities for them to shine within the organization. As a technical leader directly on the team, you will work with cross functional partners and stakeholders on activities such as planning, technical strategy, quality and delivery, with the ultimate goal of delivering products that our customers love.

In this global world, we value your ability to work independently, connect genuinely with teammates, and allocate time sensibly while communicating with a high emotional intelligence and empathy. We are enriched by the diversity of approach and perspective across our team and are excited to deepen our understanding with your contributions. The opportunity to put an amazing consumer experience in the hands of a large audience motivates us to move quickly and put our best work forward. If this resonates with you, we look forward to meeting you!
Our tech stack consists of JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, Python, Svelte, Sass, and AWS services However, we will be flexible in our technology choices as we leverage internal services, open-source software, and cloud services.

The Daily
• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of software engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment.
• Contribute to the code & architecture reviews and champion best practices for the organization by defining and evolving engineering standards
• Support the engineers on the team by coaching, setting goals, and providing regular feedback.
• Facilitate team ceremonies - daily stand ups, weekly team meetings, retrospectives, etc.
• Lead or be involved in design, discovery, technical planning, and status discussions within your team, where you'll help set direction and context, and identify any gaps or blockers.
• Be involved in discussions around high level planning, roadmaps, and status with teams across the organization.
• Contribute technically by performing code reviews, providing guidance with implementation, or writing code directly.

Requirements
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• Direct experience managing and growing engineering team members. 2+ years experience preferred
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, and experience in effectively communicating with a wide range of technical and non-technical job functions within an organization.
• Experience with hiring and onboarding new team members.
• Experience building, testing, shipping, and maintaining highly performant consumer applications that adhere to coding best practices.
• Demonstrated success in working with a team to deliver high quality software in an iterative, predictable, and sustainable way.
• Experience working in Agile methodologies for organized work within the team
• Experience working in globally distributed teams
• Engineering Requirements:
• Deep industry experience with modern development technologies, and hands-on familiarity with both client and server technology.
• Work primarily in modern JavaScript, maintaining and developing components
• Experience with AWS; infrastructure as code (CloudFormation, Terraform), monitoring tools (CloudWatch, CloudTrail), and CI/CD tools (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy).
• Security first mindset
• Optimize code for performance and scalability
• Experience integrating 3rd party libraries

Nice to haves:
• Experience developing CMS platforms preferred
• Experience using handlebars.js for templating and view logic where applicable.
• Experience in setting up, managing, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines using AWS tools and services.
• Some python experience preferred
• Experience with vue.js
• Experience integrating authorization and payment APIs within the application layer
• Experience A/B testing

About you:
• You are excited to learn and ready to lead new challenges
• You are excited to mentor and grow engineers.
• You are an excellent communicator capable of leading technical conversations with non-technical peers
• You are excited to add positively to the culture of CNN, both from an interpersonal level and from a code improvement standpoint.

Championing Inclusion at WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. 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.

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rokez4-18-191-218-124-42 in your application.