Senior Staff Software Engineer - Architect Scalable Web & AI

Talentify; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

CNN's New Business Engineering team at Warner Bros. Discovery is seeking a seasoned technical leader with deep expertise in web software and system architecture.

You will define architecture for customer-facing apps, shared backend services, and CMS capabilities, aligning with engineering, product, design, and editorial teams. You will drive technical strategy, lead rapid prototyping, contribute to hands-on development, and guide scalable, high-quality software across products.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software engineering with architecture leadership.
• 5+ years designing large-scale web apps and leading architecture.
• Strong communication across tech and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience building reusable platform components.
• Full-stack with modern web tech incl. JS/TS, HTML/CSS, Python, Go.

Responsibilities

• Define, communicate, and evolve architecture for customer-facing web apps, backend services, and CMS capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership across the software development lifecycle with architecture reviews and mentoring.
• Partner with engineering leadership to define long-term strategy and platform evolution.
• Influence decisions across teams to deliver cohesive customer experiences.
• Lead rapid prototyping and technical exploration for new product ideas.
• Champion engineering excellence with best practices for architecture, quality, testing, observability, security, and readiness.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to technical hiring.
• Lead adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices to boost productivity.

Skills

Leadership

Architecture design

Cloud-native

AWS/GCP/Azure

Full-stack

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Go

Communication

Mentorship

AI in engineering

Education

Bachelor in CS

Tools

CI/CD

Job description

CNN's New Business Engineering team at Warner Bros. Discovery is seeking a seasoned technical leader with deep expertise in web software and system architecture.

You will define architecture for customer-facing apps, shared backend services, and CMS capabilities, aligning with engineering, product, design, and editorial teams. You will drive technical strategy, lead rapid prototyping, contribute to hands-on development, and guide scalable, high-quality software across products.