Senior Software Engineer – Localization, NodeJS, Typescript

Role Overview

• Design, develop and maintain scalable backend and frontend services that power WBD’s localization infrastructure, enabling fast and high-quality delivery of multilingual content across platforms like HBO Max, Discovery+ and CNN
• Take ownership of major technical components of the Global Localization platform, contributing to architectural decisions and proposing solutions for performance, scalability and reliability challenges
• Lead by example in writing clean, maintainable and well-tested code across technologies including Node.js, Java, React and TypeScript
• Drive feature implementation from idea to production — breaking down requirements, proposing designs, estimating effort, writing code, creating tests and monitoring after deployment
• Actively participate in code reviews and design discussions, helping raise the technical bar and foster a culture of engineering excellence and collaboration
• Contribute to building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure configurations and cloud deployments using AWS-native services and DevOps tooling
• Take a leading role in troubleshooting and resolving complex production issues — analyzing logs, metrics, traces and system behavior to identify root causes and define long-term improvements
• Continuously improve observability and system resilience through implementation of real-time dashboards, proactive alerting and fault tolerance patterns
• Work closely with product managers, localization experts and other engineers to deliver features that are robust, usable, user-friendly and well-integrated into the broader ecosystem
• Support and mentor junior engineers, promoting technical growth and knowledge sharing across the team
• Stay up to date with modern engineering practices, tools and architectural patterns; drive adoption of relevant innovations within the team
• Actively optimize team processes to improve efficiency and quality, driving long-term improvements alongside short-term deliverables.

Requirements

• 5
• 9 years of professional software engineering experience
• Advanced experience with backend development using Node.js and frontend development using TypeScript
• Localization workflow experience is mandatory
• Hands-on expertise with AWS cloud services, particularly Serverless, Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, S3, DynamoDB, CloudWatch and EventBridge
• Strong understanding of microservice architecture, asynchronous systems and communication protocols (REST, gRPC, event-driven)
• Experience with DevOps practices including Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions) and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Practical knowledge of databases: PostgreSQL, DynamoDB and caching/search solutions such as Redis and Elasticsearch
• Strong focus on system observability — comfortable setting up dashboards, defining alerts and analyzing operational data using tools like Cloudwatch, Prometheus, Kibana and Grafana
• Familiarity with localization or internationalization challenges (e.g., ICU format, string management, translation workflows, Unicode handling) is a plus
• Proven ability to break down complex problems, design modular solutions and communicate technical decisions clearly
• Demonstrated mentoring ability and active participation in raising team quality through reviews, pairing and documentation
• Effective communicator across disciplines — capable of presenting and justifying technical approaches to peers and stakeholders
• Experience working in agile, product-driven environments and contributing meaningfully to planning and prioritization.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Cloud
• Docker
• DynamoDB
• ElasticSearch
• Grafana
• GRPC
• Java
• JavaScript
• Kubernetes
• Node.js
• Postgres
• Prometheus
• React
• Redis
• Terraform
• TypeScript

Benefits

• Fast track growth opportunities
• A Great Place to work