Senior Software Engineer - iOS

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Senior Software Engineer (iOS) – Sports Tech Team , Bangalore

About Warner Bros. Discovery: 
Warner Bros. Discovery is a global leader in entertainment, news, and sports, delivering brands like CNN, HLN, TNT, TBS, Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, Turner Sports, and more. Our innovations impact advertising, data management, information security, content creation and delivery, business operations, broadcasting, and ultimately, the fan experience.
 

At Warner Bros. Discovery, we believe in the power of sports to bring people together, fuel passion and create unforgettable moments. The Global Sports Technology Platform team is the engine driving our sports streaming, content delivery and fan engagement technology — powering premium experiences for millions of fans around the world through brands like Bleacher Report, Eurosport, TNT Sports and March Madness.
For more information, please visit www.wbd.com
 

Meet Our Team: 
WBD Sports encompasses a wide range of sports brands and channels, reaching over 130 million people monthly in more than 200 markets and 20+ languages. Our key brands include Bleacher Report, Eurosport and TNT Sports. WBD Sports offers a comprehensive coverage of major sports events, like the Olympics in Europe, tennis Grand Slams and road cycling Grand Tours (e.g. Tour de France) across various platforms including TV and streaming services like Max and Discovery+.
Additionally, it manages and promotes 55 global events annually. TNT Sports UK features exclusive live sports such as the Premier League and UEFA Champions League.

Roles & Responsibilities: 
As we continue to grow and innovate in a fast-paced, highly-competitive digital environment, we are seeking a Senior Software Engineer (iOS) who will be a key member of the WBD Global Sports Tech team, responsible for building and maintaining systems supporting Warner Bros. Discovery’s family of Sports products/brands, including Eurosport, NCAA/MML, and Bleacher Report. As a recognized subject-matter expert for one or more of our production iOS systems, you will independently ship high-quality features while working closely with product/project managers, users, development staff, and senior leadership to implement designs, develop and deploy fan-facing solutions.

• Independently ship high-quality, complex features across one or more production iOS systems as a recognized subject-matter expert, helping drive clarity by defining problems proactively.

• Devise solutions from limited information and precedent, using sound judgment to drive implementations autonomously with work reviewed at critical points.

• Build and maintain highly available, low-latency systems that serve sports content to customers in production, and own the long-term health of your code, monitoring, alerting, and documentation.

• Integrate service health, monitoring, alerting and documentation capabilities in parallel to your software development deliverables.

• Influence peers persuasively through code and design reviews, and communicate effectively with stakeholders and adjacent teams, adapting your style to different audiences.

• Participate in Agile ceremonies with strong ownership of work throughout the sprint, while helping create an inclusive and supportive engineering culture.

• Help newcomers become productive with the team’s processes and optimize team mechanisms to drive efficiency.

What to Bring:

• Independently ship high-quality, complex features across one or more production iOS systems as a recognized subject-matter expert, helping drive clarity by defining problems proactively.

• Devise solutions from limited information and precedent, using sound judgment to drive implementations autonomously with work reviewed at critical points.

• Build and maintain highly available, low-latency systems that serve sports content to customers in production, and own the long-term health of your code, monitoring, alerting, and documentation.

• Integrate service health, monitoring, alerting and documentation capabilities in parallel to your software development deliverables.

• Influence peers persuasively through code and design reviews, and communicate effectively with stakeholders and adjacent teams, adapting your style to different audiences.

• Participate in Agile ceremonies with strong ownership of work throughout the sprint, while helping create an inclusive and supportive engineering culture.

• Help newcomers become productive with the team’s processes and optimize team mechanisms to drive efficiency.

Bonus Skills:

• Experience with Apollo GraphQL or similar frameworks.

• Experience working with design tokens.

• Exposure to sports, media, or entertainment platforms.

Technical Environment:

• Tech Stack: Swift, SwiftUI

• Development Practices: TDD, pair programming, code reviews, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD)

• Deployment: Automated using Github Actions, Firebase App Distribution

• Technologies Used: GraphQL backend, dependency injection, async programming

• Agile Practices: Dailies, story detailing, planning, retrospectives

What We Offer:

• A Great Place to work

• Equal opportunity employer

• Fast track growth opportunities

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

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