Senior Software Engineer, Dotcom

Job Description

HBO Max is where storytelling takes center stage and where creatives find a home with the support and resources to do their best work, no matter the genre or format. Whatever the viewer wants to watch is front and center and more of what they crave is easily discovered. It is where our exclusive HBO Max Originals and iconic entertainment brands thrive, with HBO, Warner Bros., DC, Turner Classic Movies, Cartoon Network and more delivering the greatest array of series, movies and specials for audiences of all ages. The platform launched in the United States in May 2020 and introduced a lower priced, advertising-supported tier in June 2021. HBO Max began its global rollout launching in markets across Latin America and the Caribbean last summer, followed by its first European launches in the Nordics and Spain in the fall. Currently available in 46 countries, there are plans for continued expansion of HBO Max in 2022.

The Job

Like to develop features that reach millions of users and have a direct impact on the success of a new and exciting service? The Dotcom team is a friendly, energetic engineering group responsible for the primary customer-facing hbomax.com web site that attracts millions of visitors through SEO, paid advertising, and partner relationships.
On our team, your work will be the conduit to convert visitors into customers and is highly visible. We work closely with product, SEO, marketing, content, experimentation, and design to develop features and tools that empower our teams to build, deploy, and serve world-class, high-conversion, data-driven pages. We're looking for Engineers that have an interest in the space and a passion for creating great software.

As a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer on WarnerMedia's HBO Max Dotcom team, you will design and build solutions for the front-end of our headless CMS publishing system. Join us as we expand our services across the globe to reach customers with a first-class and performant web experience. You will work closely with the best engineers as an integral part of a custom publishing platform, which reaches millions of users every month. You will own and improve systems that bridge between teams and will underpin the roadmap of the product for years to come. By joining our team, you'll have a rare opportunity to build noteworthy components of a major new service from the ground up, and your work will help attract millions of customers to the service. In this role you will join a growing team with many opportunities for you to expand your scope and influence. You will use your experience to make smart engineering decisions and own critical areas of a product used by millions of customers. You will get the opportunity to work in multiple areas of the product.

The Daily
• Join a growing team with many opportunities for you to expand your skillset
• Grow your ability to design, implement, and own critical features of a product used by millions of customers.
• Design, improve, and protect large-scale systems that drive and power HBOMax.com
• Ensure consistency of your team's code and those teams you integrate with
• Evaluate multiple technical approaches and drive consensus with peers
• Use data to solve real world problems and improve customer experience
• Collaborate and partner with engineers of all levels
• Mentor other engineers to help them grow both technically and professionally
• Work with designers, product managers, and marketers to optimize conversions for HBO Max
• Design and deliver complex architectures and distributed systems, including working through other engineers to help deliver the end solution
• Handle operational issues and troubleshoot bugs independently
• Work in an agile environment, working with peers to review code and deploy world-class features

The Essentials
• 4+ years of experience in software engineering building scalable services components for shipped consumer products or platforms
• Significant experience with React, JavaScript, and Node.js
• Be passionate about software engineering with a strong sense of ownership for the code that you and your team write
• A strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, and operating systems
• Love working with web servers such as Hapi, Fastify, NextJS, or Nginx
• Be a quick learner that can leverage surrounding resources to solve problems
• Seek self-improvement and adapt to suggestions and feedback
• Hold yourself and your team to high standards while maintaining respectful relationships
• Be passionate about software engineering with a strong sense of ownership for the code that you and your team write
• Ability to provide periodic on-call support for critical emergent customer-facing issues
• Full working knowledge of Git version control
• Master of HTML/CSS with a solid understanding of Bootstrap
• Experience integrating APIs/JSON
• A passion for learning, sharing knowledge, mentoring, and working in a team setting with engineers of varying levels of experience
• Passion for collaboration, and fun is a must!

Nice to Haves
• Bachelor's degree in an engineering or science-related discipline
• Experience creating automated tests as part of the development lifecycle - passion for test driven development
• Success in designing and building highly available systems at scale
• Experience with a variety of back-end persistence, queuing and networking technologies, especially Redis, SMS, SQS, and SNS
• DevOps experience with any of the following: NginX, Apache, MemCache, Varnish, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Fargate, GraphQL, Elasticsearch
• Familiarity with Drupal

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gkb560-18-217-144-32-42 in your application.