- Drive strategic architecture investments across the WBD Sports platform, taking a function-wide view of technical solutions and their long-term implications.

- Independently map business and product needs to engineering projects, driving initiatives from conception through completion with minimal oversight.

- Serve as a key influencer in sports platform strategy, contributing significantly to both tactical execution and long-term technical vision.

- Ensure implementation of comprehensive test coverage, resiliency, disaster recovery, and operational excellence practices across Sports products and systems.

- Demonstrate excellent ability to document technical solutions and articulate them to both business and technical audiences.

- Establish best practices and set exemplary coding standards for your team.

- Monitor, review, and coach developer performance; conduct regular performance appraisals and provide disciplinary actions

- Document technical solutions and articulate them to both business and technical audiences

- Present, communicate, and advocate engineering perspectives

- Participate in Agile ceremonies and show ownership of work throughout the sprint process

- Build and maintain highly available, low-latency systems that successfully serve sports content to customers in production environments.

- Integrate service health, monitoring, alerting and documentation capabilities in parallel to your software development deliverables.

- Coach and mentor engineers up to Senior Software Engineer level, providing input to leadership on team development needs and growth opportunities.

Skills Required :

- Experience in Backend Node.js (with 10+ years of experience)

- GraphQL (with 8+ years of experience)

- AWS (Lambda/S3/ECS/RDS) / Infrastructure as code

- Redis

- PostgreSQL

- Unit, Functional Testing & TDD

- Typescript

Technical Environment

- Tech Stack : TypeScript, Node, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, AWS services

- Development Practices : TDD, pair programming, code reviews, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD)

- Deployment : Automated using Terraform/Github Actions on AWS

- Technologies Used : API portals (API Gateway, CloudFront, WAF), serverless technologies (Lambda), storage and database systems (Aurora, S3), messaging systems (SNS, SQS), Kafka

- Agile Practices : Dailies, story detailing, planning, retrospectives