As a senior software engineer on WarnerMedia’s Player Experience team, you will build and support full-stack components for our streaming video applications. You will own the entire video advertising user experience, including core player interface, beaconing, and integrated ad content. You’ll also lead behind the scenes efforts to improve quality of experience via telemetry and data analysis, and guide our overall platform by spreading architectural improvements throughout the organization.

The Daily

• Join a growing team with many opportunities for you to expand your professional and technical skills.
• Influence the technical and UX agenda for our new ad-supported video products.
• Work across teams and disciplines to explore technical solutions and evaluate technical tradeoffs, using the latest streaming media technologies and video capabilities.
• Improve your team’s development, test, and operations practices.
• Mentor other engineers to help them grow their careers.

The Essentials

• Have a deep understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, and operating systems.
• Be fluent in a modern programming language, ideally JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Have hands-on experience developing and maintaining modern user interfaces on one or more platforms (web, mobile, TV).
• Be a self-starter that can independently solve complex engineering problems.
• Maintain high quality coding standards for yourself and your team.
• Design and deliver components of a complex architecture or distributed system.
• Be passionate about software engineering with a strong sense of ownership for the code that you and your team write, and desire to become an expert in video advertising technology.
• Seek self-improvement and adapt to suggestions and feedback.
• Hold yourself and your team to high standards while maintaining respectful relationships.
• Provide periodic on-call support for critical emergent customer-facing issues
• 5+ years in software engineering on shipped consumer products or platforms.
• Experience with video applications, especially streaming video.
• Experience with advertising integration technologies (VAST, VPAID, VMAP, MRAID, OpenMedia, …).
• DevOps, where you’ve owned and operated the systems you’ve developed.
• Hands-on use of TypeScript 3+ / ECMAScript 6+ and modern device platforms (e.g. Android, iOS).
• Fluency in multiple modern programming languages.