Software Developer II (Front-end)

Warner Bros. Entertainment; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Warner Bros. Entertainment seeks a Software Engineer for the Max Dotcom team in Ottawa, responsible for developing features for a highly trafficked website. The role includes collaborating across teams, making impactful engineering decisions, and owning critical product areas. Ideal candidates will have experience in React and Node.js, with a passion for building robust systems that enhance user experience.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of software engineering experience.
• Significant experience with React, JavaScript, Node.js.
• Strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Design and build solutions for the front-end of the CMS.
• Evaluate technical approaches and drive consensus.
• Collaborate and partner with engineers and product teams.

Skills

React

JavaScript

Node.js

HTML

CSS

Git

APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related discipline

Tools

Bootstrap

Job description

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.

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 Software Engineer on WBD's Max Dotcom team, you will design and build solutions for the front-end of our headless CMS publishing system. Join us as we expand our services across the globe to reach customers with a first-class and performant web experience. You will work closely with the best engineers as an integral part of a custom publishing platform, which reaches millions of users every month. 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 of 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 Max.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 conversions for Max

• Deliver on complex architectures and distributed systems, including working through other engineers to help deliver the end solution

• 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

• 2+ years of experience in software engineering building scalable services components for shipped consumer products or platforms

• Significant experience with React, JavaScript, and Node.js

• 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

• Love working with web servers such as Hapi, Fastify, NextJS, or Nginx

• 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

• Be passionate about software engineering with a strong sense of ownership for the code that you and your team write

• Ability to provide periodic on-call support for critical emergent customer-facing issues

• Full working knowledge of Git version control

• Excellent with HTML/CSS with a solid understanding of Bootstrap

• Experience integrating APIs/JSON

• 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 creating automated tests as part of the development lifecycle - passion for test driven development

• 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, Varnish, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GraphQL, Elasticsearch

• Familiarity with Drupal

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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