Job Posting Title: Lead Software Engineer, CBS Sports Digital
Department: CBS Sports.com Technology
Location: Louisville, Kentucky; Nashville, Tennessee; Fort Lauderdale, Florida;

Lead Software Engineer, Solutions Team - CBSSports

Join CBS Digital and shape the future of sports & news media through cutting-edge AI-powered content and deeply personalized fan experiences across mobile, web, and digital platforms. We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to be a core member of our Content Management team.

What You Will Do
• Implement AI Features: Implement and assist in the architecture of advanced Generative AI and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems to power intelligent recommendations and dynamic user personalization.
• Drive Development: Drive the rapid prototyping and full-cycle development of production-grade features for mobile and web applications.
• Contribute to Standards: Promote and adhere to scalable platform standards, engineering patterns, and reusable components across the organization.
• Collaborate and Prototype: Work closely within a small engineering group, partnering with design and product teams to rapidly design, develop, and prototype solutions to key business challenges.
• Utilize AI: Utilize AI development tools to optimize your workflow and promote the use of AI-driven development practices across the team.
• Operational Excellence: Implement solutions with scalability and reliability in mind, incorporating appropriate testing, monitoring, and alerting.
• Mentor and Document: Contribute to clear documentation and diagrams to facilitate easy onboarding for other engineers and support teams. Review code to ensure adherence to best practices (style, testability, efficiency).
• Monorepo Tooling: Utilize and contribute to the evolution of monorepo tooling and workflows (e.g., Turborepo, Nx) to support build, test, and deploy across web and mobile applications.
• Type Safety & Standards: Adhere to and contribute to the evolution of TypeScript and typing standards (e.g., strict mode, shared types, codegen) so that codebases stay maintainable, type-safe end to end, and refactor-safe.

Required Qualifications
• Experience in AI: Experience or familiarity with Generative AI and RAG architectures.
• Platform Experience: Experience contributing to scalable platform products and adhering to cross-team engineering standards.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional stakeholders in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Browser & Performance: Solid understanding of browser behavior, rendering, and front-end performance (e.g., Core Web Vitals, lazy loading, code splitting).
• Monorepo Experience: Experience with monorepo tooling and workflows (e.g., Turborepo, Nx), including shared packages, task pipelines, and cross-project dependencies.
• Education & Experience: BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of experience building scalable, production-grade web applications using modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Next.js) and Node.js.
• Strong expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript, including asynchronous programming, generics, strict typing, and advanced ES6+ features.
• Deep knowledge of HTML and CSS, including responsive layout, cross-browser compatibility, accessibility, and performance optimization.
• Experience consuming and designing APIs (REST and GraphQL), including Apollo Client and microservices-based architectures.
• Proven experience modeling complex data flows for transactional and integration workflows.
• Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or OCI) and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with distributed systems concepts including caching (Redis, Memcached) and messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Experience designing and developing highly scalable, high-performance applications.
• Strong debugging and performance troubleshooting skills, including use of monitoring/observability tools (e.g., OpenTelemetry, New Relic).
• Soft Skills: Able to analyze, debug, and troubleshoot complex code problems. Passion for sports and a dedication to creating exceptional fan experiences.

Preferred Qualifications
• Exposure to popular proprietary or open-source CMS systems such as Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento
• 1+ years experience with one or more vector databases (e.g., TurboPuffer, Mongo Atlas).
• Cloud Focus: 3+ years experience working with Cloud technologies (AWS is strongly preferred).
• Frontend Skills: React/Next.js experience with fundamental HTML/CSS (layout, specificity, cross-browser compatibility).
• Collaboration: Proven experience in cross-team collaboration for requirements, implementation, and testing.
• Certifications: Cloud certifications (GCP, AWS, OCI).
• AI Tooling & Standards: Experience with AI development tools (Cursor, Copilot, etc.) and with setting up guardrails-rules, commands, skills, sub-agents-to keep AI-generated code clean, consistent, and production-ready.
• Theming & Styling: Experience with multiple styling approaches (Stylex, CSS Modules, SASS, CSS-in-JS) and design tokens in component libraries or design system.

CBS Sports, a year-round leader in cross-platform sports coverage, broadcasts a portfolio of events on the CBS Television Network, including THE NFL ON CBS; college football, including the Big Ten ON CBS; college basketball, including the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship; golf, including The Masters®, PGA Championship and PGA TOUR; soccer, including the UEFA Champions League and NWSL; and CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR.

In addition, the division includes CBS SPORTS NETWORK, the 24-hour cable home of CBS Sports which televises live sports programming throughout the year, including college football and basketball games, UEFA Champions League and Europa League action, Italy's Serie A matches, Concacaf national team competitions, as well as a full slate of original programming and studio coverage.

CBS Sports also delivers an extensive lineup of global soccer coverage on Paramount+, including every UEFA club competition match, all Serie A matches as well as Concacaf national team competitions, and produces INSIDE THE NFL for Paramount+. CBS Sports Digital's multi-platform offerings include CBSSports.com and the CBS Sports apps for mobile and connected TV devices; the 24/7 streaming sports news network CBS Sports HQ; 247Sports; MaxPreps; CBS Sports fantasy games; and SportsLine.

What We Offer:

• Attractive compensation and comprehensive benefits packages. Check out our full list of benefits here: https://www.paramount.com/careers/benefits
• Generous paid time off.
• An exciting and fulfilling opportunity to be part of one of Paramount's most dynamic teams.
• Opportunities for both on-site and virtual engagement events.
• Unique opportunities to make meaningful connections and build a vibrant community, both inside and outside the workplace.
• Explore life at Paramount: https://www.paramount.com/careers/life-at-paramount