Software Development Engineer II

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

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 Max Originals and iconic entertainment brands thrive, with HBO, HBO Max, Warner Bros., DC, Turner Classic Movies, Cartoon Network and more delivering the greatest array of series, movies, and specials for audiences of all ages. HBO Max originally launched in the United States in May 2020 and introduced a lower priced, advertising-supported tier in June 2021. It rolled out globally across Latin America and the Caribbean in 2021, followed by its first European launches in the Nordics and Spain later that year. In May 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery introduced Max, an enhanced streaming platform, in the U.S. HBO Max is currently available in 46 countries and there are plans for the continued global expansion of Max in 2024.

Meet Our Team:

The Media Supply Chain Engineering team builds the applications and services that power Warner Bros Discovery’s content supply chain.  Our applications cover the entire breadth of the media supply chain, from idea to distribution.  We have a robust global community of thousands of internal Warner Bros Discovery users who rely on our apps every day to get television produced, on the air, and onto Max.

We’re looking for a developer who can be an integral part of our Media Supply Chain development team based in our offices in Silver Spring, MD.  We also have development teams in New York City, Knoxville, and Atlanta, and will consider applicants who want to work from those offices.  We need a full stack developer who’s comfortable building, implementing, and consuming RESTful APIs for enterprise solutions. Our current service tier is a blend of Python microservices and Lambdas deployed within AWS. Our fleet of services works together in an event-driven workflow to guide content through acquisition and distribution workflows.  We also build dashboard applications and monitoring tools using Angular web components.  As a full-stack developer you’d be working alongside our current development team that features other full-stack developers as well as back-end developers and media workflow specialists. We don’t need you to be an expert in everything, but we need you to be comfortable in both microservice design and in UI coding. Requirements and designs don’t deliver set in stone, so we need you to be able to think on your feet and fill in the blanks when necessary.  As a Software Developer II, you will be part of the architecture and design of the solutions we’re building.  We need a developer who’s comfortable proposing their own ideas for architecture as well as design, layout, and usability.

We work in a hybrid model, combining in-person interactions in our offices with remote work at home.  Our team uses Slack, JIRA, Confluence and Zoom to help coordinate our work.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Build application service layers and UIs to support Warner Bros Discovery’s content supply chain

• Design and develop RESTful services within the supply chain.  Build architectural diagrams that communicate what we need to build and how we need to build it and document what you build

• Describe and defend your design and code decisions to other engineers, embrace constructive feedback, and adapt your approach to align with team and company standards and objectives.

• Offer enhancements to best practices, document, design, and architecture improvements, and as feedback through code reviews to other engineers without continuous prompting or recurring encouragement. Other engineers appreciate your feedback.

•  Troubleshoot production issues by reviewing source code, logs, operational metrics, stack trace etc. to pinpoint a specific problem and then resolve i