Software Developer I

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.

The Job

Like to develop features that reach millions of users and have a direct impact on the success of a new and exciting service? The Dotcom team is a friendly, energetic engineering group responsible for the primary customer-facing max.com web site that attracts millions of visitors through SEO, paid advertising, and partner relationships. On our team, your work will be the conduit to convert visitors into customers and is highly visible. We work closely with product, SEO, marketing, content, experimentation, and design to develop features and tools that empower our teams to build, deploy, and serve world-class, high-conversion, data-driven pages. We’re looking for Engineers that have an interest in the space and a passion for creating great software.

As a CMS/PHP Software Engineer on WBD's Max Dotcom team, you will design and build solutions that improve CMS tooling and integration in our headless publishing platform. Join us as we expand our services across the globe and develop an international CMS from the ground up that will be used by hundreds of internal users. You will work closely with the best engineers as an integral part of a custom publishing platform, which reaches millions of users every week. You will own and improve systems that bridge between teams and will underpin the roadmap of the product for years to come. By joining our team, you'll have a rare opportunity to build noteworthy components to support a major new service from the ground up, and your work will help attract millions of customers to the service. In this role you will join a growing team with many opportunities for you to expand your scope and influence. You will use your experience to make smart engineering decisions and own critical areas of a product used by millions of customers. You will get the opportunity to work in multiple areas of the product.

The Daily

• Join a growing team with many opportunities for you to expand your skillset
• Grow your ability to design, implement, and own critical features of a product used by millions of customers.
• Design, improve, and protect large-scale systems that drive and power HBOMax.com
• Evaluate multiple technical approaches and drive consensus with peers
• Use data to solve real world problems and improve customer experience
• Collaborate and partner with engineers of all levels
• Work with designers, product managers, and marketers to optimize CMS tooling and features
• Handle operational issues and troubleshoot bugs independently
• Work in an agile environment, working with peers to review code and deploy world-class features

The Essentials

• Experience with object-oriented PHP 8 development
• Be passionate about software engineering with a strong sense of ownership for the code that you and your team write
• A strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, and operating systems
• Solid SQL database understanding, including performance and security
• Be a quick learner that can leverage surrounding resources to solve problems
• Seek self-improvement and adapt to suggestions and feedback
• Hold yourself and your team to high standards while maintaining respectful relationships
• Ability to provide periodic on-call support for critical emergent customer-facing issues
• Full working knowledge of Git version control
• Solid understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Appreciates headless CMS architecture and decoupled frontend apps
• Experience integrating and building APIs
• Comfortable with command line shell and Drush commands
• A passion for learning, sharing knowledge, mentoring, and working in a team setting with engineers of varying levels of experience
• Passion for collaboration, and fun is a must!

Nice to Haves

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering or science-related discipline
• Experience with Drupal 9/10/11
• Passion for test driven development
• Ability to write complex SQL queries and Drupal Entity Queries
• Success in designing and building highly available systems at scale
• Experience with a variety of back-end persistence, queuing and networking technologies, especially Redis, SMS, SQS, and SNS
• DevOps experience with any of the following: Nginx, Apache, Memcached, Redis, Varnish, Kubernetes, Docker
• Familiarity with Node.js

How We Get Things Done…

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 www.wbd.com/guiding-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.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

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, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

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