Senior Software Engineer - Android

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..

We are part of Global Customer eXperience (GCX) group for Direct-2-Consumer business and responsible for building and maintaining video streaming Mobile & OTT applications for Max platform. Our client teams build user experience for search, catalogue, video streaming, personalization, subscriptions, payments and much more. Warner Brothers Discovery’s digital arm, Global Customer eXperience (GCX) org is a high-performing global team working at the dynamic intersection of Technology and Entertainment. In supporting our content creators in the digital space, we continuously leverage our technological capabilities to create immersive viewing experiences for iconic brands – Max, Discovery+ and HBO.

We are excited to be recruiting a Senior Software Engineer to join our Android team.

The ideal candidate has a track record of having built multiple high-performance, stable, scalable Android apps that have been successfully shipped to customers in production. Your work and your approach to work are exemplary: you drive best practices and set standards for your team. You are a key influencer in your team’s strategy and contribute significantly to team planning. You show good judgement making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs. You are a collaborative leader that makes other engineers and team members around you more productive, by sharing your knowledge and helping to tie-break key technical decisions. You provide mentoring to other engineers.

Your Role Accountabilities...

• You are hands-on and capable of playing a leading role in designing and developing major functional changes to existing software systems, or new ones, involving yourself and other engineers.

• You provide guidance on design, coding, and operational best practices, and have a track-record of applying these best practices to software that you have worked on. You can propose and create best practices proactively where none exists.

• You make high impact decisions driving how and what software gets built. Your decisions are often right, and you are persuasive in delivering your suggestions and ideas to your team.

• You mentor junior engineers, overseeing their designs, code quality, and integration into a team, and help them grow in their technical skills. Your success is judged as much on your own productivity as on the positive impact you have on engineers around you.

• You ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications by identifying and correcting bottlenecks and fixing bugs.

• You work closely with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.

• You have strong analytical skills and a detail-oriented mindset.

Qualifications and Experience...

• At least 5 years experience of developing Android Mobile applicationsin Kotlin and Compose.

• Strong computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, algorithm design, problem-solving, and complexity analysis.

• Solid understanding of the mobile development lifecycle, and PlayStore/AppStore submissions.

• Deep understanding of the nuances of the Android ecosystem, different OS versions, and how to effectively design & write code for a multitude of Android devices.

• Deep experience with Android SDK, Git, Gradle, Jetpack Compose, Kotlin Coroutines and popular third-party libraries.

• Experience building modular apps with principles such as TDD, dependency injection, dependency inversion, automated testing and deep understanding of architectures/frameworks such as MVVM and MVI.

• Knowledge of key design and architectural patterns such as MVVM, MVP and SOLID principles

• Experience and knowledge of TDD and associated frameworks (Junit, Espresso, Mockito) is desirable.

• Experience in DevOps/SRE practices such as CI/CD, performance monitoring & incident management

• Experience building dynamic customer-facing apps that use RESTful APIs to operate.

• Knowledge of or previous experience with VOD is a plus, including experience working with video playback on Android apps.

• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• You have experience in balancing speed vs. quality in software engineering teams.

• Desire to be involved in cross-platform projects on a large scale in 10+ countries.

• Working with multiple stakeholders (internal and external partners) with different goals, objectives and aspirations.

• You love to build testable, scalable and resilient applications and systems. Writing unit and integration tests is a key part of your daily role

#Li-hybrid

Hybrid Working - This role is advertised as a Hybrid work model, that combines remote and in-office work, following our current company policy and to be agreed with your Line Manager. Subject to any applicable laws, WBD / your Line Manager reserves the right to change this working agreement where this is essential to business needs and upon reasonable notice to you.

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 the diversity of our society and the world around us. 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.

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