Your New Role…
CNN Digital Commerce is looking for a Staff Software Developer experienced in modern enterprise-class languages and development platforms, with a strong emphasis on JavaScript/Node. The candidate will be deeply involved in design, implementation, test, and deployment of web applications with an advanced understanding of the SDLC.
Engineer will be responsible for creating a customer facing product, testing artifacts, develop tooling and must have communication skills needed to ensure product success as per requirements. Candidate must have ability to test and learn newer technologies and concepts on the job related to best practices and operational excellence.
The staff position requires that the candidate is able to communicate their thinking process and decision making viably to the team through design diagrams and review meetings.
Qualifications & Experience…
• 10+ years of software development experience, with a strong focus on application development
• 10+ years of experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, Express, and React/Vue/Angular, along with working knowledge of Postgres, Elasticsearch, and Redis. Proven ability to mentor peers and provide technical guidance across these technologies
• Expert level working with modern engineering technologies such as Fastly, AWS, Serverless/SAM, CloudFormation, Docker, Jenkins, and Git.
• Deep industry experience with modern development technologies, and hands-on familiarity with both client and server technology. Have a solid understanding of common software data structures and algorithms
• Have previous involvement in building medium to large-scale, "mission critical", "high availability" production systems that directly support essential business and technical, or operational functions
• Demonstrable excellent design skills and the related strengths in clearly articulating difficult technical concepts and information
• Active in the technology community
• Experience with strategies to monitor code health, infrastructure health and performance of applications.
Nice to Have...
• Experience working in e-commerce, affiliate platforms, and consumer media
• Experience working on Kanban/Scrum teams and the tools used for project management
• Experience with interviewing and talent acquisition
• Experience with Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum or Kanban). Must demonstrate support for the practices that allow for continuous deployment and incremental delivery of business value
• Should exhibit good system engineering skills (e.g., common industry database design and practices, application architectures, operating systems concepts, networking, etc.) in addition to skills in application development.
• Experience in non-procedural programming or applying functional-style concepts professionally considered a plus
• Two years of object-oriented JavaScript experience is a plus.
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 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.
