Staff Software Engineer (Full Stack)

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Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

At HBO Max, storytelling takes center stage. We’re one of the world’s most iconic entertainment brands — home to bold originals and unforgettable characters. While audiences binge award-winning content, breaking news, and sports around the clock, our teams stay busy at work creating what’s next in streaming. From Succession, Euphoria, and The Sopranos to global franchises like Game of Thrones and Harry Potter, our content sparks conversation and shapes culture.

HBO Max delivers boundary-pushing stories across genres and platforms, connecting millions of viewers across 90 countries globally— and we’re just getting started. We're home to the most talked about shows and movies, granting audiences access to the worlds of HBO, Harry Potter, DC, Warner Bros., ID, Adult Swim, A24, and more. Turn your streaming obsession into a career— we’re hiring!

Meet Our Team :

The Content Systems / MSC Engineering team builds the applications and services that power Warner Bros Discovery’s content supply chain.

Our applications cover the entire breadth of the media supply chain, from idea to distribution.

We have a robust global community of thousands of internal Warner Bros Discovery users who rely on our apps every day to get television produced, on the air, and into streaming.

We’re looking for a developer who can be an integral part of our development team in Warner Bros Discovery’s Knoxville office.

We need a full stack developer who’s comfortable building, implementing, and consuming RESTful APIs for enterprise solutions. Our current service tier is a blend of Java and Angular services. We’re transitioning existing applications to a micro-front end featuring reusable components and loosely-coupled micro-apps. As a full-stack developer you’d be working alongside our current development team that features other full-stack developers along with some specialists dedicated to either front-end or back-end layers. No need to be an expert in everything, but we need you to be comfortable in your skills in each layer to contribute to it. Requirements and designs don’t deliver set in stone, so we would like you to be able to think on your feet and fill in the blanks when necessary.

Roles & Responsibilities :

Build application service layers and UIs to support Warner Bros Discovery’s content supply chain.

Lead design components and complex architecture with little oversight. You solve business problems with simple and straightforward solutions, applying appropriate technologies and software engineering best practices. Build architectural diagrams that communicate what we need to build and how we need to build it.

Describe and defend your design and code decisions to other engineers, embrace constructive feedback, and adapt your approach to align with team and company standards and objectives.

You are a collaborative leader that makes other engineers and team members around you more productive, by sharing your knowledge, and helping to break key technical decisions. You provide mentoring to other engineers, pushing them to grow in their skills, communication, and design.

Offer enhancements to best practices, document, design, and architecture improvements, and as feedback through code reviews to other engineers without continuous prompting or recurring encouragement. Other engineers appreciate your feedback.

Troubleshoot a production issue by reviewing source code, logs, operational metrics, stack trace etc. to pinpoint a specific problem and then resolve it.

What to Bring :

7-10 years of experience as a software developer – full stack preferred

Experience with event driven architecture or asynchronous messaging services

Experience developing Single Page Applications with a modern UI framework

High proficiency and technical leadership with technologies on our stack including Java (Spring) and Node JS, and Angular 6 and higher and Golang preferred

Knowledge and experience in SQL, Mongo DB, postgresDb

Experience with automated build and deployment strategies.

Experience with Spring, Spring Cloud, Junit, Flash.

Experience working within a SAFe Agile team, collaborating with others to build software and iteratively improve it

Mastery of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

You have a proven track record of designing and building applications for media workflows, media catalogs, and asset registries (preferred)

You are an effective communicator, demonstrating this in your discussions with the team and stakeholders and through your documentation

You solve business problems with simple and straightforward solutions, applying appropriate technologies and software engineering best practices.

You deliver high-quality results the first time and improve code, documentation, and results with each iteration. Your team trusts your work.

Additional Information

On June 9, 2025, Warner Bros. Discovery announced plans to separate into two publicly traded companies, Warner Bros. and Discovery Global, with an expected completion in mid-2026. For more details, including leadership appointments and information on individual brands, please visit our newsroom

here .

Although you will be hired by Warner Bros. Discovery, upon the planned separation in 2026, your employment likely will transition to Warner Bros. Company. During this period of transformation, you’ll have an exciting opportunity to lay the foundation at one of the world’s premier entertainment brands.

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

www.wbd.com / guiding-principles /

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.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

If you’re a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and / or recruitment process, please visit our

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