Manager Software Development

Job Description

Warner Bros. has been entertaining audiences for more than 90 years through the world's most-loved characters and franchises. Warner Bros. employs people all over the world in a wide variety of disciplines. We're always on the lookout for energetic, creative people to join our team.

Job Summary

Warner Brothers Discovery's digital arm, Direct to Consumer org is a high-performing global team working at the dynamic intersection of Technology and Entertainment. In supporting our content creators in the digital space, we continuously leverage our technological capabilities to create immersive viewing experiences for iconic brands including Discovery+, HBO Max and now Max.

We are excited to be recruiting a Software Engineering Manager to join our Ottawa iOS/tvOS team.

Responsibilities

As a Software Engineering Manager, you will work in collaboration with the Product Team and Program Managers, and help prioritize new features, bug fixes and technical debt within the team you would be managing. This is a great opportunity to drive key initiatives, build a high-performance culture, enabling a team of 7 Ottawa-based Software Developers to deliver critical components of the iOS/tvOS apps. This is a partially hands-on role, and ideally, you should be able to dedicate some of your time to drive design and architectural decisions that impact the iOS/tvOS platform apps.

The successful candidate will have a motivating attitude, excellent leadership skills, establish a strong collaborative culture and a strong ability to drive excellence in both current team members as well as future hires. Building strong teams is a vitally important aspect of the role, so you'll be heavily involved in execution of many important initiatives and personal development of Software Developers.

Qualifications
• 3+ years in a leadership role - leading and managing software development teams. Providing direction, setting goals, recruiting & mentoring both ICs and junior leaders.
• Programming & domain experience on Mobile technologies (iOS/tvOS). Knowledge of or previous experience with VOD is a plus, including experience working with video playback on iOS/tvOS apps.
• 5+ years programming experience using Swift or other similar language.
• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent work experience.
• Experience building dynamic customer-facing apps that use RESTful APIs to operate. Hands-on expertise in disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between.
• Knowledge of large-scale application architecture, design, implementation and performance tuning.
• Experience in modern DevOps/SRE practices such as CI/CD, performance monitoring & incident management.
• Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
• Excellent communication skills, understanding of developers' needs and priorities.
• Experience in balancing speed vs. quality in software engineering teams.
• You love to build scalable and resilient products.
• Responsible for the team's performance against agreed objectives and goals.
• Manage, plan and organize team resources to satisfy output requirements for projects, change requests and support.
• Recommend technical developments and software to enhance/improve our app.
• Desire to be involved in cross-platform projects on a large scale in 10+ countries.
• Working with multiple stakeholders (internal and external) with different goals, objectives and aspirations.
• Knowledge of key design and architectural patterns such as MVVM, MVP and SOLID principles.
• Experience and knowledge of TDD and associated frameworks.

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 www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ 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.

The Legal Bits…

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, 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 need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at recruitadmin@wbd.com.

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