Senior Software Developer

Job Description

CNN is hiring a Senior Software Developer to join the Design System and Frameworks team. This is a great opportunity for an individual that is passionate about Design System Engineering. CNN is building new digital products, such as direct-to-consumer subscription products, new features and capabilities to support a premium news experience and engage our audiences, and new technologies to help us meet our global audiences where they are. If this sounds interesting to you and you would like new challenges, come join us!
About the Team
As a Senior Software Developer (Full-Stack, Front End lean), you will join a cross‑functional team dedicated to building the design system tools and capabilities that power both the editorial workflow and the end‑user experience on CNN.com. This role is ideal for a Design System Engineer who is passionate about systems thinking and enabling creativity at scale. You'll work closely with technical, design, and product partners to deliver the foundational UI infrastructure that supports storytelling across a diverse range of platforms.
Our team leverages modern technologies to create cohesive, accessible, and performant components while supporting each other through planning, development, reviews, and deployment. In this role, you will play a critical part in shaping our design system by driving feature development, writing high‑quality and maintainable code, contributing to architectural decisions, performing peer reviews, and providing ongoing operational support.
Your Role Accountabilities
• Full‑stack development with JavaScript, React, HTML, and CSS, incorporating semantic code, accessibility standards, responsive design methodologies, and design‑system‑focused engineering practices.
• Architect, implement, and maintain design system components, patterns, and UI infrastructure used across multiple applications and frameworks.
• Own, implement, develop, and maintain high‑priority features and system-level improvements with thorough testing and documentation.
• Collaborate and communicate with product, design, and engineering stakeholders to translate Figma specifications and tokens into scalable, maintainable code.
• Work closely with cross‑functional teams in an agile environment, contributing to Scrum, Planning, Retros, and Demos.
• Support peers through code reviews, pairing, documentation, and general platform‑minded collaboration.
• Participating in the wider CNN Engineering community as a peer reviewer, contributor and mentor for junior team members.

Qualifications & Experience
• Deep understanding of engineering best practices, design patterns, code reviews, accessibility, testing and observability.
• Strong experience working in modern JavaScript and developing/maintaining reusable UI components and libraries.
• Expert-level CSS knowledge, including architecture (BEM), tokens, theming strategies, and cross‑browser behavior.
• Proficiency with the command line along with Git, Docker, and AWS.
• Experience with unit testing frameworks such as Jest, Jasmine, and Mocha.
• Familiarity with AWS tooling including monitoring (CloudWatch), and CI/CD (CodePipeline, CodeBuild).
• Solid understanding of software data structures and algorithms, and experience with both client‑ and server‑side technologies.
• Demonstrated expertise in at least one modern front‑end framework such as React, Angular, or Vue.
• Demonstrated success rapidly learning new technologies, languages, or frameworks.
• Familiarity with a wide range of languages, frameworks, platforms, or SDKs.
• Excellent communication skills
• A passion for improving shared codebases, team processes and culture.
• Experience working with or contributing to CMS platforms.
The Nice to Haves
• Experience with Figma plugin development, Figma Tokens, or integrating design‑tool workflows into engineering processes.
• Hands-on experience implementing or contributing to design systems, component libraries, and pattern libraries across multiple codebases.
• Knowledge of database technologies (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, etc).
• Python experience.
• Experience with Vue.js.
• Experience with A|B testing and consumer testing platforms.
• Knowledge of Operations, CI/CD, and DevOps, PagerDuty, Kubernetes, Jenkins, CodePipeline, etc.

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 accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.
In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, location, skill set, experience, and/or performance. Base pay is just one component of Warner Bros. Discovery's total compensation package for employees. Pay Range: $109,700.00 - $159,700.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time and vacation.
This position is open for an existing position vacancy.

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