Staff Software Engineer

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Staff Software Engineer, CNN Connected TV Devices, Roku

About the Team and Role

The Global Customer Experience organization’s mission is to engage and delight millions of passionate customers across the globe by delivering Warner Bros. Discovery’s core streaming applications on all devices and platforms. The development team responsible for the Roku platform is a major part of that mission.

Job Description

As a Staff Software Engineer, CNN Connected TV Devices, you will lead technical efforts to build out world-class connected TV streaming video applications across an ever-growing number of devices and platforms, in order to bring CNN to our users! 

In this role, you’ll have technical ownership of major features and product initiatives for our connected TV applications. Your main focus will be on shipping: everything from brand new features, to platform ports, to bug fixes. You’ll be successful in this role if you can take an undefined problem statement, work with a cross functional team to turn it into a concrete, well-scoped technical plan, and then deliver a high quality solution in a consistent and predictable way. This requires strong technical and non-technical communication skills, and deep knowledge of the full connected TV app development lifecycle.

In this role, you’ll be expected to make significant individual contributions, but you’ll also act as a technical leader on the team. You’ll mentor and guide other engineers in their day to day work. You’ll ensure the team is following high quality software engineering practices - continuous integration, effective test coverage, automated testing, positive and constructive code reviews, and low friction development environments. Finally, as a leader in the engineering organization, you’ll model and evangelize a positive, inclusive, and constructive way of working for your team.

The Daily

•             Make significant, high quality code contributions to the project.

•             Lead discussions, create documentation, or create work tickets to ensure other engineers on the team have enough detail, context, and direction on their current and future projects to make progress autonomously.

•             Lead or participate in technical design and discovery activities within your team to support product roadmap definition.

•             Contribute to high level planning, roadmap definition, and architecture design with teams across the organization.

•             Provide technical mentorship to other engineers - provide positive, constructive code reviews; teach engineering best practices and debugging techniques; give pointers to educational resources; etc.

Requirements

•             Experience leading a team of developers from technical perspective, re