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.