Staff Software Engineer
- Knoxville, TN
- Permanent
- Full-time
The Content Systems/MSC Engineering team builds the applications and services that power Warner Bros Discovery’s content supply chain. Our applications cover the entire breadth of the media supply chain, from idea to distribution. We have a robust global community of thousands of internal Warner Bros Discovery users who rely on our apps every day to get television produced, on the air, and into streaming.
We’re looking for a developer who can be an integral part of our development team in Warner Bros Discovery’s Knoxville office. We need a full stack developer who’s comfortable building, implementing, and consuming RESTful APIs for enterprise solutions. Our current service tier is a blend of Java and Angular services. We’re transitioning existing applications to a micro-front end featuring reusable components and loosely-coupled micro-apps. As a full-stack developer you’d be working alongside our current development team that features other full-stack developers along with some specialists dedicated to either front-end or back-end layers. No need to be an expert in everything, but we need you to be comfortable in your skills in each layer to contribute to it. Requirements and designs don’t deliver set in stone, so we would like you to be able to think on your feet and fill in the blanks when necessary.Roles & Responsibilities:Build application service layers and UIs to support Warner Bros Discovery’s content supply chain.Lead design components and complex architecture with little oversight. You solve business problems with simple and straightforward solutions, applying appropriate technologies and software engineering best practices. Build architectural diagrams that communicate what we need to build and how we need to build it.Describe and defend your design and code decisions to other engineers, embrace constructive feedback, and adapt your approach to align with team and company standards and objectives.You are a collaborative leader that makes other engineers and team members around you more productive, by sharing your knowledge, and helping to break key technical decisions. You provide mentoring to other engineers, pushing them to grow in their skills, communication, and design.Offer enhancements to best practices, document, design, and architecture improvements, and as feedback through code reviews to other engineers without continuous prompting or recurring encouragement. Other engineers appreciate your feedback.Troubleshoot a production issue by reviewing source code, logs, operational metrics, stack trace etc. to pinpoint a specific problem and then resolve it.What to Bring:7-10 years of experience as a software developer – full stack preferredExperience with event driven architecture or asynchronous messaging servicesExperience developing Single Page Applications with a modern UI frameworkHigh proficiency and technical leadership with technologies on our stack including Java (Spring) and Node JS, and Angular 6 and higher and Golang preferredKnowledge and experience in SQL, Mongo DB, postgresDbExperience with automated build and deployment strategies.Experience with Spring, Spring Cloud, Junit, Flash.Experience working within a SAFe Agile team, collaborating with others to build software and iteratively improve itMastery of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operationsYou have a proven track record of designing and building applications for media workflows, media catalogs, and asset registries (preferred)You are an effective communicator, demonstrating this in your discussions with the team and stakeholders and through your documentationYou solve business problems with simple and straightforward solutions, applying appropriate technologies and software engineering best practices.You deliver high-quality results the first time and improve code, documentation, and results with each iteration. Your team trusts your work.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 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 for instructions to submit your request.