CNN · 17 hours ago
Manager, Software Engineering
Atlanta, GA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expWarner Bros. Discovery, home to CNN, is seeking a Manager for their Software Development team, focused on building direct-to-consumer products and enhancing web experiences. The role involves managing a team of engineers, setting technical direction, and collaborating with cross-functional partners to deliver engaging products.
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Responsibilities
Lead, mentor, and manage a team of software engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment
Contribute to the architecture reviews and champion best practices for the organization by defining and evolving engineering standards
Support the engineers on the team by coaching, setting goals, and providing regular feedback
Facilitate team ceremonies - daily stand ups, weekly team meetings, retrospectives, etc
Lead or be involved in 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
Contribute technically by performing code reviews, providing guidance with implementation, or writing code directly
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
3+ years of direct people-management experience, including hiring, mentoring, performance management, and growing engineering teams
8+ years of progressively complex experience designing, building, and shipping web applications/products (ideally, DTC)
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
Experience with hiring and onboarding new team members
Experience building, testing, shipping, and maintaining highly performant consumer applications that adhere to coding best practices
Demonstrated success in working with a team to deliver high quality software in an iterative, predictable, and sustainable way
Experience working in Agile methodologies for organized work within the team
Experience working in globally distributed teams
Deep industry experience with modern web application development technologies, and hands-on familiarity with both client and server technology
Work primarily in modern JavaScript, maintaining and developing components
Experience with AWS; infrastructure as code (CloudFormation, Terraform), monitoring tools (CloudWatch, CloudTrail), and CI/CD tools (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy)
Security first mindset
Optimize code for performance and scalability
Experience integrating 3rd party libraries
Preferred
Experience developing CMS platforms preferred
Experience in setting up, managing, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines using AWS tools and services
Some python experience preferred
Experience with Vue.js and Node.js
Experience in A/B testing
Experience in zero-to-one product development, start-ups, or other environments
Passionate about leveraging AI tools/technologies for product development
Benefits
Career defining opportunities
Thoughtfully curated benefits
Company
CNN
CNN is an online broadcasting platform that offers the latest business, financial, and personal finance news. It is a sub-organization of WarnerMedia.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2020 (3)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
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VP of Software Engineering
Recent News
2026-01-07
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2026-01-06
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