Your New Role... CNN Digital Commerce is seeking a
Software Engineering Manager to lead a talented and innovative engineering team building the next generation of web applications and commerce products. This manager will work closely with a cross-functional team to develop, enhance, and scale platforms like CNN Underscored. You will be responsible for leading the development of high-quality, customer-facing products and tools that power CNN's e-commerce initiatives. As an engineering leader, you will foster a culture of excellence, mentorship, and continuous improvement.
Your Role Accountabilities... - Lead and mentor a high-performing engineering team, fostering collaboration, innovation, growth, and technical excellence while promoting continuous learning and career development.
- Drive technical strategy and oversee the development of scalable, high-performance web applications for CNN Digital Commerce.
- Drive cross-functional collaboration to align engineering, product, and business teams for data-driven decision-making and streamlined product development.
- Lead efforts to improve engineering workflows, tooling, and processes for operational excellence.
- Implement and advocate for agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum or Kanban) and support continuous delivery practices.
- Drive initiatives around monitoring application health, infrastructure, and code performance to ensure system reliability and optimal user experiences.
- Drive innovation by adopting modern technologies, optimizing architecture, and ensuring long-term maintainability through code reviews and refactoring.
Qualifications & Experience:- B.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (M.S. preferred).
- 10+ years of software development experience, including 2+ years in a technical leadership role.
- Proven track record in leading teams responsible for building and scaling e-commerce platforms or consumer-facing products.
- Extensive experience in modern web technologies, with deep expertise in JavaScript (Node.js, Vue.js), TypeScript, Fastly and Python.
- Proficiency in cloud services such as AWS (Serverless/SAM, etc.), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and infrastructure management (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Strong experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL), search engines (Elasticsearch), and caching solutions (Redis).
- Experience with high-performance, high-availability applications in production environments.
- Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor, and inspire engineers to meet ambitious technical goals.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and business teams.
- Deep familiarity with Agile development methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).
- Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines and supporting incremental delivery of business value.
Bonus Skills- Experience in non-procedural programming or applying functional-style programming concepts.
- Previous involvement in building e-commerce, affiliate platforms, or consumer media applications.
- Experience in mentoring junior engineers, conducting technical interviews, and contributing to talent acquisition efforts.
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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.
This position is open for an existing position vacancy.
