Position Summary

Discovery, Inc is the leader in global real-life entertainment with powerful brands such as Discovery Channel, Genius Kitchen, TLC, Food Network, HGTV, and Travel Channel. Our Digital Studios team develops experiences on web, mobile, and voice that reach millions of users each day - inspiring them with ideas and tools to create their own unique world.

We are seeking a Software Engineer to join the team for the Digital and Direct-to-Consumer product for Magnolia, a joint venture partnership between Discovery, Inc. and Chip and Jo Gaines. This is a critical role in helping us develop and launch the Magnolia website product. With Magnolia, we’re looking to solve practical problems for customers, improve their everyday lives, and create passionate and loyal fans. Within this role, you will be contributing to a large-scale application in a team environment and working iteratively to provide the best possible customer experience. You will be expected to learn new platforms and technologies quickly and work in a fast-paced environment.

This will be a hands-on role where you’ll be successful by: contributing high quality code, participating in all aspects of the agile software development process, and collaborating with other Discovery teams on shared objectives. As a contributor on the team, you’ll be expected to write code, drive code reviews, and own tasks and projects to their completion.

Responsibilities

1. Deliver high-quality, high-performance, scalable code
2. Ensure site stability and performance include monitoring key metrics
3. Day-to-day support of project initiatives including: participation in sprint planning, team retrospectives, code reviews, and user interviews.
4. Participate in the quality assurance phase of the development cycle through automated testing.
5. Assist in implementing effective engineering processes and policies that emphasize quality and forward progress.
6. Assist in executing the engineering hiring plan for the team, including screening, and interviewing.
7. Represent Discovery engineering and management in industry events.

Requirements

* 3+ years of JavaScript experience
* 2+ years working with frontend frameworks and libraries professionally (Vue, React, Angular, etc.)
* 3+ years working with cross-browser compatible CSS implementations.
* Experience in object-oriented programming is a plus, in languages such as Java, Swift, or C#
* A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience

* Must have the legal right to work in the United States