Staff Software Development Engineer

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. At HBO Max, storytelling takes center stage. While audiences binge award-winning content, breaking news, and sports around the clock, our teams stay busy at work creating what’s next in streaming. From Succession, Euphoria, and The Sopranos to global franchises like Game of Thrones and Harry Potter, our content sparks conversation and shapes culture.

ID, Adult Swim, A24, and more. Warner Brothers Discovery’s digital arm, Global Customer Ex perience org anization is a high-performing global team working at the dynamic intersection of Technology and Entertainment. In supporting our content creators in the digital space, we continuously leverage our technological capabilities to create immersive viewing experiences for iconic brands including HBOMax.

We are excited to be recruiting a Staff Software Developer to join our Apple team.

As a S taff Software Developer, you will work within a team to deliver new customer-facing features across our iOS and tvOS App. Ensuring these are delivered on time and meeting the high-quality standards we have within our teams. To be successful in this position, you should have a strong understanding of iOS and tvOS development as well as extensive test driven development experience. You have demonstrated the ability to use common industry tools for software development including but not limited to IDEs, build and continuous integration, source control management, code review tools, and you are able to build software in a professional team environment delivered to production using these tools. You can provide technical documentation describing your contributions and contribute enhancements to your team’s best practices. This is a great opportunity to drive key initiatives, build a high-performance streaming application, working with geographically dispersed developers to deliver critical projects and new app architecture. 8+ years of programming experience using Swift or other similar language. Experience building consumer apps is a must .

• Knowledge of or previous experience with VOD is a plus, including experience working with video playback on iOS/ tvOS apps.
• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science , Engineering or equivalent work experience.
• Experience building dynamic customer-facing apps that use RESTful APIs to operate . Hands-on expertise in disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between.
• Experience with large-scale application architecture, design, scalability, testability, implementation, and performance tuning.
• Experience in modern DevOps/SRE practices such as CI/CD, performance monitoring & incident management.
• Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
• Establish design, coding, and operational best practices and contribute to technical documentation . Lead major functional changes to enhance/improve our app or the developer experience . You help drive priori ti zation of work on the team .
• Mentor junior developers, overseeing their designs, code quality, and integration into a team . Desire to be involved in cross-platform projects on a large scale in 60+ countries and territories .
• Experience with key design and architectural patterns such as MVVM, MVP and SOLID principles.
• Experience with Test Driven Development and associated frameworks.

During this period of transformation, you’ll have an exciting opportunity to lay the foundation at one of the world’s premier entertainment brands.

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