Software Development Manager III

Overview:
Warner Bros. Discovery’s Engineering team in Stockholm ships some of the core services of Warner Bros. Discovery’s global and growing streaming video platform. We are now a hub for a growing global engineering group of hundreds of software engineers. We are looking for technically deep, analytical software engineers to join our growing Stockholm team. If your interest lies in building highly scalable container-based services, then this may be the team for you.

Warner Bros. Discovery’s DTC organization sits at the intersection of tech, entertainment, and everyday utility. We are continuously leveraging new technology to build immersive and interactive viewing experiences. Our platform covers everything from search, catalog, and video transcoding, to personalization, global subscriptions, and more. We are committed to delivering quality user experiences, ranging from video streaming to applications across connected TV, mobile, web, and consoles. As a pure tech organization, we are essential to Warner Bros. Discovery’s continued growth, building world-class products from the ground up for our iconic brands like HBO Max, Discovery Channel, CNN, Food Network, HGTV, Eurosport, MotorTrend, and many more.

About the role

We are hiring senior software development managers to join our team in Stockholm. The ideal candidate has a track record of creating the identity for a team and defining how that team works within a larger organization. You have mastered the ability to delegate both tasks, and larger assignments to your team, and ensure that the right results are achieved even without your constant oversight. You are a leader that people turn to when they want to build something new as you can align with company priorities and processes, and create new ones where needed.

About the team

The User Acquisition teams are a critical component in the revenue growth path for Warner Bors. Discovery's DTC organization. The teams oversee the acquisition funnel, the win-back operations, and the churn prevention efforts, among other things. These are Tier. 1 services with high availability, resiliency, and scalability, along with zero downtime. Finally, our efforts are on the critical path for many org-wise initiatives, so high-performing individuals and teams are the most critical component to succeed in our mission.
Responsibilities:
You understand a broad range of computer science concepts and know-how, when, and when not to use them. You can dive deep into a wide range of technical problems offering suggestions and feedback to your team. Your interest in computer science has not faded as you moved into a leadership role and you are still comfortable with technical details.
Your written and verbal communication skills are top-notch. You can distill key points out of complex technical descriptions to share with non-technical stakeholders, adapting your language and style of communication depending on the audience. You communicate through data, dates, and facts using emotion judiciously to motivate and inspire.
You lead by example and do not consider yourself above individual contributor work. You are comfortable teaching best practices by showing people, not just telling people. Teams follow your lead because you are an inspirational leader, because you are right, and because you can show everyone high-quality examples of your own work.
Given a larger business goal, you are able to facilitate ramping up of an existing team or building a new team, including estimating the needed skills and team size, defining processes, team structure, and means of collaboration. You have repeatedly demonstrated the ability to hit these goals.
You have demonstrated the ability to make great hiring decisions as is evidenced by the performance of engineers on your team, and you are able to retain and develop the best engineers.
You have demonstrated the capacity to make decisions for more than one engineering team or functional area showing that your judgment is fungible.

Qualifications:
Building and managing tier-1 services for consumer-facing applications that are highly available, scalable, and resilient to failure.
Experience in building, operating, and truly owning services. Implementing alerting, metrics, and logging using Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana, and PagerDuty.
Proficient in Java and a few other languages.
Persistence and caching solutions such as PostgreSQL, Redis, and ElasticSearch.
Micro-service-based architectures using gRPC and Kafka for interservice communication.
Asynchronous, non-blocking, functional style of programming and experience implementing with frameworks such as Spring WebFlux, Node.js, and vert.x
Usage and deep understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.