Senior Staff Software Engineer

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The CNN New Business Engineering team is building a new portfolio of standalone consumer lifestyle products across mobile andweb. Our mission is to create innovative, non-newsexperiences that enrich our users' lives, deepen daily engagement with CNN, and drive the long-term growth of our direct-to-consumer business.

We are looking for a seasoned technical leader with deepexpertisein Web software and system architecture design, combined with hands-on software development experience. This role spans customer-facing web applications, shared backend services, and our content management platform, enabling experiences that power both web and mobile products. As a senior technical leader, you will partner closely with Engineering, Product, Design, Editorial, and other teams across CNN to define architecture, drive technical strategy, lead rapid prototyping, contribute to hands-on software development, and guide the delivery of scalable, high-quality software across multiple products.

This is a unique opportunity to shape the technical foundation of CNN's next generation of consumer product portfolio from the ground up.You'llinfluence architecture across multiple engineering teams, build reusable platform capabilities, leverage AI to accelerate innovation, and help deliver engaging experiences to millions of users. Ifyou'repassionate about building 0-to-1 products, solving complex technical challenges, andmaintaininga high bar for engineering excellence,we'dlove to meet you.

Your Role Accountabilities...

Define, communicate, and evolve the architecture for customer-facing web applications, shared backend services, and CMS capabilities, ensuring alignment with businessobjectivesand long-term technical strategy

Provide technical leadership throughout the software development lifecycle througharchitecture reviews, software design, hands-on development, code reviews, documentation,and technical mentoring.

Partner with New Business engineering leadership to define and execute the long-term technicalstrategy, architecture roadmap, and platform evolution for CNN New Business

Influence technical decisions across multiple engineering teams and build strong partnershipswith Business, Product, Design, and Editorial organizations to deliver cohesive customerexperiences

Lead rapid prototyping efforts and technical exploration tovalidatenew product ideas andaccelerate 0-to-1 product development

Champion engineering excellence byestablishingbest practices for software architecture, codequality, testing, observability, reliability, security, and operational readiness

Mentor engineers, contribute to technical hiring, and help elevate the technical capabilities ofthe engineering organization

Lead the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices andidentifyopportunities toleverageAItoimprove developer productivity and deliver differentiated customer experiences.

Qualifications & Experience...

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent industry experience

15+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years of experience designing andbuilding large-scale web applications and leading architecture for complex software systems. Atleast 2+ years of experience in a role where you defined and led architecture design

High-Performance mindset to thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment with a focus on quicklydelivering customer value over delivering a perfect solution

Exceptional verbal and written communication skills to influence technical and non-technicalstakeholders across the company

Technical Leader and mentorship- Yourleadership style is rooted in strong collaboration andlifting others. You love to share your knowledge and experience across all teams

Experience in designing reusable components and platform capabilities that acceleratedevelopment across multiple consumer products and engineering teams

Strong full-stack engineering experience with modern web technologies and frameworks,including JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML/CSS, Python, Go, etc.

Deep industry experience in designing and implementing highly scalable Web applications, andhands-on familiarity with both client- and server- sidetechnologies. Solid understanding of keydesign concepts: reliability, availability, security, privacy, analytics, observability, operationalreadiness

Deepexpertisein cloud-native architectures and experience designing, deploying, and operatingsystems in AWS (strongly preferred), GCP, or Azure

Solid knowledge of Operations, CI/CD, and DevOps.

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