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The Senior Staff Software Engineer joins the CNN New Business Engineering team to build a new portfolio of standalone consumer lifestyle products for mobile and web. This technical leader will define architecture, drive technical strategy, and lead rapid prototyping for customer-facing web applications, shared backend services, and content management platforms. Key responsibilities include mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, and establishing best practices for reliability, security, and observability. The role requires hands-on development using JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML/CSS, Python, and Go within cloud-native architectures like AWS, GCP, or Azure. You will solve complex technical challenges by building reusable platform capabilities and leveraging AI to accelerate innovation. This position focuses on creating non-news experiences that drive long-term growth for the direct-to-consumer business from the ground up.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Georgia?
Median $187100 from 37 postings across 17 companies.
Define and evolve the architecture for customer-facing web applications, shared backend services, and CMS capabilities.
Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, software design, hands-on development, and code reviews.
Partner with leadership to execute the long-term technical strategy and platform evolution for New Business.
Influence technical decisions across multiple engineering teams to deliver cohesive customer experiences.
Lead rapid prototyping and technical exploration to validate new product ideas and accelerate 0-to-1 development.
Establish best practices for software architecture, code quality, testing, observability, reliability, and security.
Mentor engineers and contribute to technical hiring to elevate the organization's technical capabilities.
Lead the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices to improve developer productivity and customer experiences.
What we're looking for
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
15+ years of software engineering experience.
5+ years of experience designing and building large-scale web applications and leading architecture for complex software systems.
At least 2+ years of experience in a role where you defined and led architecture design.
Strong full-stack engineering experience with modern web technologies including JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML/CSS, Python, and Go.
Deep expertise in cloud-native architectures and experience designing, deploying, and operating systems in AWS (strongly preferred), GCP, or Azure.
Experience in designing reusable components and platform capabilities that accelerate development across multiple consumer products and engineering teams.
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Java
Go
AWS
Terraform
OAuth 2.0
OIDC
SAML
FIDO2
WebAuthn
Distributed Systems
Identity and Access Management
Infrastructure as Code
KYC
AML
GDPR
PCI