Sr Staff Software Engineer

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About the Team and Role
The CNN Engineering team is hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Ad Experiences team. This is a great opportunity for an individual that is passionate about advertisement technologies, user experience, metrics, and looking for challenges to balance revenue goals and cohesive experiences for the consumer.
The ideal candidate
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will assume a technical leadership role on the team and provide support for the team leads and engineers through your deep technical knowledge. You will lead the conversations for the architecture for new products, be a collaborator with A|B testing new experiences, champion best engineering practices through alignment with CNN technical leadership, and work directly on the implementation of new digital products.

• You are excited to learn and ready to lead new challenges.
• You are an excellent communicator capable of assessing a technical task and breaking it into smaller tasks in partnership with other engineers and/or product.
• You are comfortable giving demos of your work and explaining technical details and requirements across teams.
• You are excited and eager to take on mentoring of both senior and associate level engineers, and you ideally have experience doing so in the past.
• You are excited to add positively to the culture of CNN, both from an interpersonal level and from a code improvement standpoint.
• You are passionate about improving the code you touch and interact with.

Expectations

• Take on a technical leadership role and guide technical direction in partnership with engineering, product, and design partners.
• Lead technical design, discovery, technical planning, and status discussions within your team, where you'll help set direction and context, and identify any gaps or blockers.
• Be involved in discussions around high level planning, roadmaps, and status with teams across the organization.
• Partner with other internal teams (Mobile Apps, Video, Ads Stakeholders) for implementation strategies and collaboration.
• Be a mentor for other engineers on the team.
• Contribute to documentation, peer reviews, and code quality efforts across the platform through thoughtful code reviews and ensuring code standards.
• Communicate effectively and facilitate meetings for collaboration efforts with other internal stakeholders.

Skills / Experience

• Full stack development experience with an emphasis on front end coding, including JavaScript, Modern frameworks, HTML/CSS & Responsive design
• Experience with Ad Technology and integrating services / SDKs (third-party or otherwise) for ads, analytics, audience engagement, and media asset management.
• A|B testing and instrumentation experience for testing consumer facing products.
• Experience building, testing, shipping, and maintaining highly performant consumer applications.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, and experience in effectively communicating with a wide range of technical and non-technical job functions within an organization.
• Understanding of engineering best practices for Web Vitals, Performance, Analytics and Accessibility.
• Experience with AWS services or other Cloud Platforms.
• Familiarity with a wide range of languages, frameworks, platforms, API's and/or SDKs.
• Knowledge of building solutions for high traffic websites.
• Knowledge of Operations, CI/CD, and DevOps.

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