Staff Software Engineer, WBD Sports

Warner Bros Discovery Inc•Atlanta, GA

65d

About The Position

WBD Sports encompasses a wide range of sports brands and channels, reaching over 130 million people monthly in more than 200 markets and 20+ languages. Our key brands include Bleacher Report, Eurosport and TNT Sports. WBD Sports offers a comprehensive coverage of major sports events, like the Olympics in Europe, tennis Grand Slams and road cycling Grand Tours (e.g. Tour de France) across various platforms including TV and streaming services like Max and Discovery+. Additionally, it manages and promotes 55 global events annually. TNT Sports UK features exclusive live sports such as the Premier League and UEFA Champions League. As we continue to grow and innovate in a fast-paced, highly-competitive digital environment, we are seeking a Staff Software Engineer who will be a key member of the WBD Global Sports Tech team, responsible for building and maintaining systems supporting Warner Bros. Discovery's family of Sports products/brands, including Eurosport, NCAA/MML, and Bleacher Report. You will work closely with product/project managers, users, development staff, and senior leadership to implement designs, develop and deploy fan-facing solutions.

Requirements

8+ years of demonstrated expertise in building scalable web applications using TypeScript and modern JavaScript including Node and NextJS - including type systems and advanced language features.
5+ years of React experience, including working experience with functional components and hooks.
Strong experience with REST and GraphQL APIs.
Advanced proficiency in TDD, unit/integration testing strategies, code reviews, and establishing testing standards across complex applications.
Deployment: Automated using Terraform/Github Actions on AWS, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD)
Experience with NextJS including App Router, server/client components, and SSR/SSG concepts.
Experience optimizing SEO performance metrics (e.g., Core Web Vitals).
Experience with build tools (e.g., Rush, Heft, Docker) and CI/CD pipelines.
Experience translating complex design features into modular components using design software (e.g., Figma).
Solid performance optimization and monitoring expertise for high-traffic applications.
Ability to create functional-level impact and deliver complex features with little to no oversight.
Effective communication skills as exemplified by technical documentation deliverables, and stakeholder and adjacent teams interactions.

Nice To Haves

Working experience with Jest.
Experience with Material UI (MUI) for theming and component development.
Understanding of accessibility best practices and SEO is highly desired.
Experience with Kubernetes or ECS.
Experience integrating AdTech solutions.
Experience working with design tokens.
Experience creating and documenting components in isolation with Storybook.

Responsibilities

Own and drive key initiatives supporting the developer workflow from PR to release.
Lead initiatives that drive innovations in Sports and deliver technical solutions.
Collaborate with partner engineering teams for inputs, support, and guidance.
Establish best practices, set exemplary coding standards and drive operational practices for your team.
Demonstrate excellent ability to document technical solutions and articulate them to both business and technical audiences.
Present, advocate and champion engineering perspectives.
Participate in Agile ceremonies and show ownership of work throughout the sprint process.
Build and maintain highly available, low-latency systems that successfully serve sports content to customers in production environments.
Integrate service health, monitoring, alerting and documentation capabilities in parallel to your software development deliverables.
Coach and mentor engineers up to Senior Software Engineer level, providing input to leadership on team development and growth opportunities.