Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer

The CNN Growth team is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to help design, build, and evolve the core systems and experiences that support audience growth, engagement, and monetization across CNN's digital platforms.

This role is ideal for a senior individual contributor who thrives on solving complex technical problems, leading by example, and partnering closely with engineering managers, product, design, data, and vendors to deliver high impact, consumer facing software at scale.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a technical leader on a newly forming team. You will stay deeply hands on while helping set technical direction, raise engineering standards, and guide architectural decisions across the team.

You will work across the stack to design scalable systems, influence technical approaches, and ensure high quality delivery. You will collaborate closely with your engineering manager and peers to unblock teams, reduce risk, and drive clarity in ambiguous problem spaces.

You will also play a key role in evaluating third party solutions, integrating vendor platforms, and helping the team make sound build vs buy decisions that balance speed, quality, and long term maintainability.

Design, build, and maintain production systems and user facing applications

Lead technical design and architecture discussions for features and systems

Write high quality, well tested code and set a strong example for engineering excellence

Partner with engineering managers on technical strategy, planning, and execution

Collaborate with product, design, data, and other engineers to translate requirements into scalable solutions

Evaluate and integrate third party services and vendor platforms

Identify performance, reliability, and security risks and drive improvements

Participate actively in code reviews and raise the overall quality bar for the team

Mentor and support engineers through technical guidance and knowledge sharing

Help improve developer experience, tooling, and engineering practices

Our teams primarily work with JavaScript and TypeScript across modern web architectures, supported by Node, Python, and AWS. We integrate internal platforms, third party services, and cloud infrastructure, and value pragmatic, maintainable technology choices.

Technologies include JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, Python, Svelte, Sass, AWS services, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and observability tools.

Requirements

6+ years of professional experience building and maintaining production software systems

Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including modern ES6+ patterns, and experience with Node

Experience designing and developing scalable APIs and web applications

Solid understanding of system design, performance optimization, and application security

Experience working with AWS services, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools

Strong communication skills and ability to clearly explain technical concepts to varied audiences

Proven ability to deliver high quality software in an agile, fast paced environment

Experience collaborating closely with cross functional partners

Passion for building user focused products that deliver measurable impact

About you

You enjoy staying hands on while influencing technical direction and decision making

You take ownership of complex problems and help bring clarity to ambiguous spaces

You are a strong collaborator who elevates those around you

You care deeply about code quality, reliability, and long term maintainability

You are excited to help shape how CNN builds for growth and scale