Senior Full Stack JS Engineer

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We are hiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer (front‑end leaning) for the CNN Engagement Web team.

You’ll be part of highly collaborative, focused teams that value shared learning, diverse perspectives, and continuous growth. Together, we strengthen our products, our culture, and our ability to deliver meaningful experiences to audiences around the globe.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will drive technical initiatives at the intersection of news publishing workflows, A/B experimentation, and data‑informed product decisions. You will play a key role in shaping architecture and implementation, partnering closely with engineers, product managers, and designers across multiple teams.

You will contribute end‑to‑end, from technical planning and design to development, code reviews, and deployment, while raising the bar on engineering excellence and best practices. In this role, you will deepen your expertise in building scalable, high‑quality features and robust system integrations that support high‑traffic user experiences in a fast‑paced, dynamic news environment.

If this sounds interesting to you and you would like new challenges, come join us!

• Mentor and develop junior engineers through hands‑on guidance, code reviews, and training initiatives.
• Design and implement infrastructure and validation systems for data models within simulation platforms and broader application ecosystems.
• Communicate proactively on progress, risks, and blockers, ensuring alignment and strong stakeholder relationships.
• Actively contribute to Agile/Scrum ceremonies while providing technical leadership and guidance.
• Build and scale applications and infrastructure supporting CNN use cases and evolving product needs.
• Experience working in Agile software development environments using tools such as JIRA, Git Hub, and Confluence.

• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related degree.
• 6+ years of full‑stack development and leadership experience, with hands‑on expertise in client/server technologies, modern tech stacks, and a solid understanding of common software data structures and algorithm.
• 4–6 years of professional front‑end development, with mastery of modern JavaScript/ES6 and Node.js.
• Python experience required, Go/Rust a plus.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS Services like IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, EKS, Lambda, and Route
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• Experience with data storage technologies, including SQL and/or No
  
  SQL databases. Familiarity with CI/CD and infrastructure tools such as Git, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and Cloud Formation.
• Experience using AI tools to improve development, code review and engineering workflows while balancing speed, quality, and bottlenecks. Familiar with AI development tools (Cursor, Copilot, Claude, etc.) to improve velocity and code quality.
• 4+ years of experience in debugging and problem‑solving skills.
• Experience with A/B testing, analytics, or experimentation tooling.
• You are excited to add positively to the culture of CNN, both from an interpersonal level and from a code improvement standpoint.
• Strong architectural and distributed systems…