Manager, Software Engineering

Job Description

Manager, Software Engineering - Bangalore

About Warner Bros. Discovery:

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 Warner Media's premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.

For more information, please visit www.wbd.com.

Meet Our Team:

The Ad Tech group works on building state-of-the-art Ad technology platforms and services that power the Discovery + and other digital services offered by Warner Bros. Discovery globally.

Roles & Responsibilities:
• You are experienced and capable of playing a leading role to design and develop major functional changes to existing software systems, or new ones, involving yourself and other Engineers.
• You make good decisions and exercise accurate judgement when choosing to build new vs extending existing ones.
• You provide guidance on design, coding, and operational best practices, and have a track-record of applying these best practices to software that you have worked on
• You propose and proactively seek to establish best practices where none exist.
• You make high impact decisions driving, what and how software is built.
• You analyse requirements, study software architectures and designs to make decisions suiting the requirements. You are often right, and you are persuasive in delivering your suggestions and ideas to your team.
• You mentor junior Engineers, overseeing their designs, code quality, and integration into a team. Your success is judged as much on your own productivity as on the positive impact you have on Engineers around you.
• You communicate through data, dates, and facts, applying them as appropriate to motivate and inspire.
• You are comfortable with scrum agile methodologies, adapting best engineering practices by showing people, not just telling people.
• You are equally passionate about code testability as you are for writing methodical, readable code.

What to Bring:
• 13 - 16 years, Proficient in Java 8, including use of Futures and Streams
• You are proficient in Reactive programming, asynchronous, non-blocking backend engineering languages like Java, Go, Node JS, etc. Also familiar with Akka, Playframework, writing highly scalable engineering backend services and messaging services like Kafka, SQS and others.
• Experience with one or more of: PostgreSQL and MySQL, Caching solutions (such as Redis and Guava), Search engine technology (preferably Elasticsearch)
• Knowledge on Infra as Code, Spark ETL, Scripting language
• Knowledge of, and professional experience with most AWS services, and deeper knowledge of EC2, S3, Kinesis, CloudFront and CloudWatch
• Usage and deep understanding of Docker and Kubernetes

What We Offer:
• A Great Place to work
• Equal opportunity employer
• Fast track growth opportunities

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, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rj3n02-18-224-38-170-42 in your application.