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CNN Growth
Come join our team
The CNN Growth team is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to help design, build, and evolve the core systems and experiences that support audience growth, engagement, and monetization across CNN’s digital platforms.
This role is ideal for a senior individual contributor who thrives on solving complex technical problems, leading by example, and partnering closely with engineering managers, product, design, data, and vendors to deliver high impact, consumer facing software at scale.
What you will do
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a technical leader on a newly forming team. You will stay deeply hands on while helping set technical direction, raise engineering standards, and guide architectural decisions across the team.
You will work across the stack to design scalable systems, influence technical approaches, and ensure high quality delivery. You will collaborate closely with your engineering manager and peers to unblock teams, reduce risk, and drive clarity in ambiguous problem spaces.
You will also play a key role in evaluating third party solutions, integrating vendor platforms, and helping the team make sound build vs buy decisions that balance speed, quality, and long term maintainability.
The daily
Design, build, and maintain production systems and user facing applications
Lead technical design and architecture discussions for features and systems
Write high quality, well tested code and set a strong example for engineering excellence
Partner with engineering managers on technical strategy, planning, and execution
Collaborate with product, design, data, and other engineers to translate requirements into scalable solutions
Evaluate and integrate third party services and vendor platforms
Identify performance, reliability, and security risks and drive improvements
Participate actively in code reviews and raise the overall quality bar for the team
Mentor and support engineers through technical guidance and knowledge sharing
Help improve developer experience, tooling, and engineering practices
Our tech stack
Our teams primarily work with JavaScript across modern web architectures, supported by Node, Python, and AWS. We integrate internal platforms, third party services, and cloud infrastructure, and value pragmatic, maintainable technology choices.
Technologies include JavaScript, , Node, Python, Svelte, Sass, AWS services, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and observability tools.
Requirements
8-10 years of professional experience building and maintaining production software systems
Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including modern ES6+ patterns, and experience with Node
Experience designing and developing scalable APIs and web applications
Solid understanding of system design, performance optimization, and application security
Experience working with AWS…