Senior Software Engineer - Content Experience Platform at WARNERMEDIA

Stockholm Municipality, , Sweden -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

18 Jan, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

20 Oct, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Java, JVM-Based Languages, Cloud Environments, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Distributed Systems, Microservice-Based Architectures, gRPC, Kafka, Observability Tooling, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, Spring WebFlux, Terraform

Industry

Entertainment Providers

Description

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. Warner Bros. has been entertaining audiences for more than 90 years through the world’s most-loved characters and franchises. Warner Bros. employs people all over the world in a wide variety of disciplines. We're always on the lookout for energetic, creative people to join our team. Your New Role... The Direct to Consumer (DTC) Group is a technology company within Warner Bros Discovery. We are building a global streaming video platform (OTT), and a suite of applications to support all of our network’s digital brands globally. We are building modern container-based micro-services operated on AWS. Our platform covers everything from search, browse, content catalogue, merchandising, localizations, personalization, and much more. We enable performant streaming experiences across connected TVs, web, mobile phones, tablets, and consoles for a large footprint of WBD owned streaming services (HBO Max, Discovery+, CNN, and others). This is a growing, global engineering group crucial to WBD’s future. We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer within the DTC Content Experience Platform. The team is responsible for aggregating, enabling, and serving the personalised Content Discovery experience within our DTC streaming video platforms through our Experience Services APIs. We ensure all client applications worldwide have seamless access to the latest and relevant content metadata, browse experiences and curations, and presentational elements to deliver a best-in-class content discovery experience to our hundreds of millions of streaming users globally across our different streaming service platforms. Your Role Accountabilities... Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of significant features or services—both new systems and major enhancements to existing ones. Troubleshoot complex production issues, identify root causes, and contribute to systemic improvements in reliability, performance, and developer workflow. Contribute to architectural discussions within your team and help define patterns, practices, and technical direction. Actively mentor and support junior engineers through code reviews, pairing, and informal coaching. Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to translate business needs into effective technical solutions. Ensure high standards of code quality, testing, and operational readiness in your own work and across the team. Take shared responsibility for your team’s systems in production—including observability, alerting, and incident response. Continuously look for opportunities to improve engineering tools, processes, and team effectiveness. Owns technical solutions from design through deployment—navigating ambiguity, proposing architecture, and delivering working systems. Contributes to the evolution of team architecture and tooling, helping define patterns and standards that others adopt. Mentors and supports other engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and hands-on collaboration. Writes clean, testable, and well-documented code and advocates for engineering best practices across the team. Works effectively across functions—partnering with Product Managers, Designers, and stakeholders to deliver impactful features. Understands and contributes to system observability, performance tuning, and production readiness. Thinks in terms of business value and user experience, not just technical correctness. Communicates clearly and proactively, driving alignment, surfacing risks, and helping the team stay focused and productive. Self-directed, dependable, and comfortable taking ownership in fast-moving environments. Qualifications and Experience... Strong proficiency in Java or other JVM-based languages, with a proven ability to build and maintain robust backend services in production. Solid experience developing and operating systems in cloud environments, using Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS. Deep understanding of distributed systems and microservice-based architectures, including asynchronous communication patterns with gRPC and Kafka. Skilled in implementing and maintaining observability tooling—including metrics, logging, and alerting—with tools such as Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana, and PagerDuty. Hands-on experience with datastores and caching technologies such as PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, and Caffeine. Familiar with non-blocking, asynchronous, and reactive programming using frameworks like Spring WebFlux or Vert.x. Demonstrated ability to design and deliver high-performance, low-latency APIs for real-time applications. Working knowledge of distributed tracing and diagnostics tools like OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, or Zipkin. Practical experience using infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, or working in a GitOps-based workflow. 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 will likely 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. #Li-hybrid 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, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability 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 accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.

Responsibilities

Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of significant features or services within the DTC Content Experience Platform. Troubleshoot complex production issues and contribute to systemic improvements in reliability and performance.