The JobAs a
Software Developer II, CNN Connected TV Devices, you will help to build out world-class connected TV streaming video applications across an ever-growing number of devices and platforms, in order to bring CNN to our users!
In this role, you'll make significant contributions to our connected TV applications. Your main focus will be on shipping: everything from brand new features to platform ports, to bug fixes. You'll work closely with other engineers, product, design, and research to plan out upcoming work, and deliver it in a consistent and predictable way. You'll need strong technical and non-technical communication skills, experience in building high quality software, and the ability to learn new technologies and development methods quickly.
In this role, you'll be expected to make significant individual contributions, but this goes beyond just cranking out code to ship. You'll also help your team improve over time by contributing to high quality software engineering practices - continuous integration, effective test coverage, automated testing, positive and constructive code reviews, and low friction development environments. Finally, you'll help everyone on your team love their jobs by modelling a positive, inclusive, and constructive way of working.
The Daily- Make significant, high quality code contributions to the project.
- Pair up with senior engineers to define, scope, plan, and implement new product features.
- Continually improve development processes through activities like adding test coverage, improving automation, documenting or refactoring code.
- Participate technical design and discovery activities within your team to support product roadmap definition.
Requirements- 3+ years of professional experience building and shipping production software applications, using JavaScript.
- Experience in building user interfaces with ReactJS.
- Experience with TypeScript
- Demonstrated success in working with a team to deliver high quality software in an iterative, predictable, and sustainable way.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Bonus Points- Experience developing consumer applications
- Experience developing connected TV or mobile applications, especially using React Native and/or Lightning
- Demonstrated success in evangelizing for high quality software development practices on a team - appropriate test coverage, automation, CI/CD, etc.
- Demonstrated success in rapidly learning new technologies, languages, or frameworks
- Passionate about performance and creating amazing experiences for CNN users
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