Full Job Description
The CNN Growth team is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help build and evolve the
systems and user experiences that drive audience growth, engagement, and monetization acrossCNN's digital platforms.
This role is ideal for a strong senior individual contributor who enjoys building high quality
software, collaborating closely with teammates, and taking ownership of meaningful technical
problems in a fast moving, consumer focused environment.
What you will do
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be a key contributor on a newly forming team. You will
work hands on across the stack, delivering reliable, performant features while contributing to
technical discussions, code quality, and engineering best practices.
You will partner closely with designers, product managers, and other engineers to turn ideas into
production ready solutions. You will also help ensure systems are scalable, secure, and
maintainable as the team and platform grow.
The daily
• Design, build, and maintain production ready software systems and user facing features
• Work primarily in modern JavaScript, maintaining and developing components and
services
• Collaborate closely with designers to implement interfaces that are functional, accessible,
and visually polished
• Optimize code for performance, scalability, and reliability
• Develop and maintain server side logic and APIs for client server communication
• Integrate front end elements with back end systems seamlessly
• Participate in code and architecture reviews and champion engineering best practices
• Follow a progressive development approach from proof of concept through production
release
• Integrate third party libraries and services responsibly and securely
• Identify and address security, performance, and quality risks early
• Work within Agile development practices on a distributed team
• Communicate clearly within the team and across teams to drive alignment and delivery
Our tech stack
Our teams primarily use JavaScript and TypeScript across modern web architectures, supported
by Node, Python, and AWS. We value pragmatic technology choices and build systems that
integrate internal platforms, third party services, and cloud infrastructure.
Technologies include JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, Python, Svelte, Sass, AWS services, CI/CD
pipelines, and observability tools.
Requirements
• 4+ years of experience building and maintaining production software systems
• 4+ years of experience with JavaScript, including modern ES6+ and asynchronous
patterns
• Experience designing and implementing APIs and web applications
• Solid understanding of performance optimization, security, and system design principles
• Experience with performance monitoring and analytics tools such as Datadog or New
Relic
• Strong collaboration and communication skills within and across teams
• Experience working in Agile development environments
• Hands on familiarity with both client side and server side development
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability for delivered work
• Ability to break down broader goals into clear technical tasks and solutions
Nice to have
• Experience developing or contributing to CMS platforms
• Experience with templating systems such as Handlebars
• Experience setting up, managing, or improving CI/CD pipelines using AWS tools
• Some Python experience
• Experience with frontend frameworks such as Vue, Svelte, or React
• Experience integrating authorization, identity, payment, or subscription APIs
• Experience with A/B testing or experimentation platforms
About you
• You are passionate about software engineering and take pride in high quality work
• You thrive in fast paced environments with evolving requirements
• You enjoy collaborating closely with designers, product partners, and engineers
• You balance execution speed with thoughtful technical decision making
• You want to build products that reach large audiences and make a real impact
This position is open for an existing position vacancy.