Manager, Software Engineering

The CNN New Products team is hiring a Manager, Software Development. This is an opportunity for individuals passionate about building direct‑to‑consumer products, features, and capabilities for an exceptional web experience with support for mobile platforms.

Our tech stack consists of JavaScript, Type Script, Node, Python, Svelte, Sass, and AWS services. However, we will be flexible in our technology choices as we leverage internal services, open‑source software, and cloud services.

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of software engineers, fostering a collaborative and high‑performance work environment.
• Contribute to architecture reviews and champion best practices for the organization by defining and evolving engineering standards.
• Support the engineers on the team by coaching, setting goals, and providing regular feedback.
• Facilitate team ceremonies—daily stand‑ups, weekly team meetings, retrospectives, etc.
• Lead or be involved in design, discovery, technical planning, and status discussions within your team, setting direction and context, and identifying gaps or blockers.
• Be involved in discussions around high‑level planning, roadmaps, and status with teams across the organization.
• Contribute technically by performing code reviews, providing guidance with implementation, or writing code directly.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Direct experience managing and growing engineering team members. 2+ years experience preferred.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, and experience in effectively communicating with a wide range of technical and non‑technical job functions within an organization.
• Experience with hiring and onboarding new team members.
• Experience building, testing, shipping, and maintaining highly performant consumer applications that adhere to coding best practices.
• Demonstrated success in working with a team to deliver high‑quality software in an iterative, predictable, and sustainable way.
• Experience working in Agile methodologies for organized work within the team.
• Experience working in globally distributed teams.

• Deep industry experience with modern development technologies, and hands‑on familiarity with both client and server technology.
• Work primarily in modern JavaScript, maintaining and developing components.
• Experience with AWS; infrastructure as code (Cloud Formation, Terraform), monitoring tools (Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail), and CI/CD tools (Code Pipeline, Code Build, Code Deploy).
• Security first mindset.
• Optimize code for performance and scalability.
• Experience integrating third‑party libraries.

• Experience developing CMS platforms preferred.
• Experience in setting up, managing, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines using AWS tools and services.
• Some Python experience preferred.
• Experience with Vue.js.
• Experience integrating authorization and payment APIs within the application layer.
• Experience A/B testing.

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 ‑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.

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, 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.

Location:

Atlanta, GA