Software Engineer II

The Software Engineer II is responsible for designing, developing, testing, and delivering medium-complexity features across CNN digital platforms. This role works within cloud-hosted, multi-client systems and partners closely with frontend, mobile, platform, product, and operational teams to build reliable, scalable, and maintainable solutions.

The SEII independently drives feature delivery with limited guidance, contributes to technical decisions, and continuously improves engineering practices while maintaining high standards for code quality, reliability, and operational excellence.

Your Role Accountabilities...

This is a great opportunity for an individual that is passionate about building mobile apps for News audiences. Our team builds innovative and creative user experiences taking advantage of the latest features and technologies that CNN has to offer.

• Architect and build intuitive, simple and elegantly designed mobile apps that people want to use
• Provide support and development of software tools and procedures to extend and enhance the core production pipeline
• Work with multiple departments, including Product, Design, Delivery, Editorial and Engineering to implement CNN Digital consumer experience solutions and apps
• Assist with troubleshooting production problems, root cause analysis, and debugging
• Development and maintenance of existing production systems supporting CNN's digital ecosystem
• Mentor more junior developers
• Ensure software development follows industry best practices, policies and guidelines. Specifically, ensuring that technical solutions are in line with established CNN Digital strategy, standards in respect to architecture, security, corporate governance, coding standards, monitoring, logging, unit test, and service enablement

• Own medium-complexity features across backend APIs and data, work in cloud-hosted, multi-client systems, write tests and docs, and ship safely with partner teams-without needing deep specialization in every layer (infra, frontend framework, or data platform) on day one
• Communicates blockers and tradeoffs clearly to peers and stakeholders
• Delivers work with limited guidance on approach; asks when scope or risk is unclear
• Strong proficiency in at least one backend language (e.g. JavaScript/Node, Python, Go)
• Object-oriented and functional patterns - small, testable units; clear module boundaries
• RESTful APIs - design, versioning, error handling, backward compatibility
• End-to-end ownership of medium-sized features (design input * implement * test * release)
• Technical documentation - short design notes, test plans, rollout steps
• Cross-team collaboration - align API contracts with frontend, mobile, or partner teams

The Nice to Haves

• Experience configuring Datadog alerts and metrics
• Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, or on-call/escalation workflows
• Experience with A/B testing platforms or Fastly edge cloud platform
• Interest in improving developer workflows and team engineering practices

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