Sr Software Engineer, Web Experience

Job Description

Senior Software Engineer, Web Experience - HBO Max

The Job

Interested in working on a highly visible product and developing features that millions of customers depend upon? Web Experience is a friendly, energetic engineering team responsible for building and maintaining the HBO Max onboarding and subscription management frontend. Our client applications are built on top of a modern, React + Typescript framework and component library, which the team has built and maintains. We own server side components that communicate with the HBO Max backend, making this a true full stack role. We're cross-location with team members throughout the US and across the globe. We're looking for enthusiastic engineers who have an interest in the commerce space and a passion for creating great software.

The Daily

As a Sr Software Engineer on the HBO Max Web Experience team, you will design and build features requested by our product team, and work with your peers in the engineering team to evolve the platform. You and your team will own the HBO Max customer onboarding and subscription management frontend, and support other teams in leveraging the React framework you have built. By joining our team, you'll have a rare opportunity to make some of the world's best content accessible to millions of customers, securely and seamlessly.

In this role, you will:
• Join a growing team with many opportunities for you to expand your skillset and experience.
• Get the opportunity to learn about and influence multiple areas of the product.
• Evaluate multiple technical approaches and drive consensus across the engineering team.
• Use data to solve real world problems and improve customer experience.
• Design, implement, and own critical features of a product used by millions of customers.
• Work with new features from a variety of commerce and technology partners
• Work with designers, product managers, and marketers to optimize the purchase experience.

The Essentials
• 6+ years of experience in software engineering on shipped consumer products or platforms.
• Front end development experience with React or similar technologies
• Server side development experience, including RESTful API design
• Experience designing elegant technical solutions for complex problems and breaking down large pieces of work into smaller tasks for engineers of various skill levels.
• A solid understanding of common software patterns and best practices.
• Be a quick learner that can leverage surrounding resources to solve their problems.
• Be passionate about software engineering and the quality of your work, with a strong sense of ownership for the code that you and your team write.
• Hold yourself and your team to high standards while maintaining friendly, respectful relationships.
• Have the desire and ability to help other engineers improve their process, code quality, and productivity.
• Seek self-improvement and be adaptable to suggestions and feedback.

The Nice to Haves
• Bachelor's degree in an engineering or science-related discipline
• Experience with a strongly typed language, preferably Typescript
• DevOps experience, where you've owned and operated the systems you've developed.
• Success in designing and building highly available systems at scale.
• Experience with a variety of back-end persistence, queuing and networking technologies
• Experience building and deploying on AWS, including serverless
• Experience with AWS technologies, specifically DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, RDS, Lambda
• Experience writing SQL queries
• Experience with commerce development, financial systems, and payment gateways.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g3yb7n-3-16-83-150-42 in your application.