Senior Software Developer, AD

Position: Senior Software Developer, CNN AD Experiences
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Who We Are
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About the Job
CNN is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Ad Experiences team. This is a great opportunity for an individual that is passionate about building digital products that balance company goals and a great user experience. The Ad Experiences team is building new digital advertisement experiences on CNN to support a premium news experience and engages our audiences as well as new capabilities that enable the business to improve revenue, web performance, and overall resiliency of advertisements on CNN.

If this role sounds interesting to you and you would like to help the team with these opportunities, come join us!

About the Team
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work on a cross-functional team that is focused on building products and capabilities to enhance the experience on  Your team is compromised with Technical, Design and Product leads and a team of engineers that support each other through the planning, development, review, and deployment processes. You will play a crucial part on the team as you will be responsible for feature development, quality code, peer reviews, and operational support.

The Daily

Full stack development with JavaScript, HTML, CSS incorporating semantic code, accessibility and responsive design methodologies

Responsible for owning, implementing, developing, and maintaining complete high-priority features with thorough testing

Work with a cross functional team in an agile environment, and contributing to Scrum, Planning, Retros, and Demos

Support others on your team through code reviews, pairing, desk checks, and collaboration

The Essentials

Understand engineering best practices, design patterns, reviews, testing and alerting

Proficient on the command line in concert with Git, Docker, and AWS

Unit testing experience using frameworks such as Jest, Jasmine, and Mocha

Passionate about improving the code you touch and interact with.

Excited to learn and ready to take on new challenges.

Excellent communicator with your team members and peers.

Excited to add positively to the culture of CNN, both from an interpersonal level and from a code improvement standpoint.

The Nice to Haves

Advertisement development and integration experience

Advanced

Experience with AWS services or other Cloud Platforms

Knowledge of relational databases, SQL, and No

SQL

A|B testing and consumer testing platform experience

Familiarity with Design Systems, Component Libraries and Atomic Design

Familiarity with other modern programming languages, frameworks, platforms, API’s and/or SDKs.

Knowledge of Operations, CI/CD, Dev Ops, with exposure to escalation protocols, Pager Duty, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Code Pipeline, etc..

How We Get Things Done…
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