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We’ve got the brands, we’ve got the stars, we’ve got the power to achieve our mission to entertain the planet – now all we’re missing is… YOU! Becoming a part of Paramount means joining a team of passionate people who not only recognize the power of content but also enjoy a touch of fun and uniqueness. Together, we co-create moments that matter – both for our audiences and our employees – and aim to leave a positive mark on culture.

Lead Software Engineer, CMS Platform

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Serve as the established technical owner of one or more core CMS systems (API layer, integration services, search pipeline, or admin UI).
• Drive architectural decisions across the CMS platform, including API design, data modeling, event-driven integrations, and search infrastructure.
• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, robust services across a polyglot stack: Java/Spring Boot APIs, Next.js/React frontends, Python services, Kafka/PubSub messaging, and Solr search pipelines.
• Define and promote engineering best practices. This includes coding standards, design patterns, testing strategies, documentation, and AI-augmented workflows. Explain what team members do well and where they need supervision. Describe how we maintain code quality while increasing output.
• Identify, prioritize, and strategically reduce technical debt across the domain.
• Write and review RFCs, architecture decision records, and technical design documents for significant changes.
• Set the team's bar for AI-assisted development — including review standards for agent-generated PRs, prompt and context patterns (e.g., CLAUDE.md / agent instructions), and how we measure quality at higher delivery speed.

Delivery & Execution

• Stay involved in coding. Write important production code. Run explorations to reduce risks in architecture decisions. Build prototypes. Help with high-impact features.
• Lead large projects and initiatives from conception through delivery — break down ambiguous, large-scale problems into actionable work.
• Coordinate rollouts and releases across multiple teams and services effectively.
• Partner with product managers, stakeholders, and other scrum teams to shape technical roadmaps that connect engineering work to business outcomes.
• Assess technical risk, make pragmatic trade-off decisions, and communicate them clearly.

Operational Excellence

• Own end-to-end delivery: from design through production observability and reliability.
• Fulfill SLAs by participating in on-call rotation, leading incident resolution, conducting RCAs, and driving preventive improvements.
• Set a high bar for quality through automated testing, peer review, CI/CD pipelines, and observability (structured logging, metrics, alerting).
• Ensure platform reliability across multi-region deployments (US, International, Pluto TV).

Mentorship & Culture

• Mentor and coach engineers through code reviews, design sessions, pairing, and architectural guidance — other engineers seek you out for this.
• Raise the technical bar for the entire team systematically, not just through individual contributions.
• Influence engineering culture: advocate for higher product quality, engineering efficiency, and continuous improvement.
• Help expand the team through interviewing candidates and onboarding new team members.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing across the team — tech talks, documentation, cross-training on system areas.

Cross-Functional Collaboration