Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. WME is building internal platforms that support relationships, deals, and opportunities across the global entertainment industry. The Staff Software Engineer will own a major platform area across multiple teams, setting technical direction, managing roadmaps and risks, developing leads, hiring, and making architectural decisions.
Responsibilities
- **Own an area of the platform.** You'll be responsible for the outcomes of one or more teams working across a connected set of product surfaces. Scope is assigned based on business need and shifts as the org grows
- **Keep leadership ahead of risk.** Your manager should hear about slippage, resourcing gaps, or a bad bet before they have to ask. That includes pushing back if a timeline isn't realistic, or a product ask will create debt worth knowing about. Raising risk early is never treated as a failure here
- **Give your teams context.** Engineers in your area should understand why a priority exists, why a tradeoff was made, and why something changed. You're the connection between company direction and day-to-day execution
- **Own technical health.** Staffing mix, delivery pace, product alignment, and architectural direction all sit with you. A team can be fully staffed and shipping quickly while quietly accumulating problems, so tracking velocity isn't the same as setting the technical bar — you're responsible for both
- **Own the roadmap.** You should be able to articulate what your area is building over the next quarter and defend the sequencing on your own
- **Grow leads.** Identifying and developing engineers who can own execution is a core part of the job, not a side effect of it
- **Hire.** You'll source and interview for your own teams and weigh in on candidates joining them
- **Partner with a technical program manager.** You'll work alongside a TPM who runs planning cadence, cross-team dependencies, and operational execution. You set the direction and make the calls; they keep the machinery of delivery running, so you're not absorbed into it
- **Make architectural calls.** Including the uncomfortable ones. You decide where to take on debt and where to pay it down, rather than letting either drift by default
- **Shape architecture beyond your own area.** You'll work with engineering leadership and peer Staff Engineers on overall system architecture and the shared components that cut across products
Skills
- Experience owning outcomes across multiple teams or workstreams at once, through leads rather than direct execution
- A track record of surfacing risk early and pushing back constructively on unrealistic scope or timelines
- Experience growing engineers into technical leadership
- Comfort owning a roadmap and defending its prioritization
- Hiring and interviewing experience
- Comfort working where systems, processes, and org structure are still forming
- Extensive software engineering experience, typically 15+ years
- Strong full-stack background building modern web applications, with deep proficiency in React, TypeScript, and Next.js
- Solid backend experience with Node.js, building scalable services and APIs (REST and gRPC)
- Experience designing and managing relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL
- Containerized workloads with Docker and Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code with Terraform
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar)
- Strong product instincts and a collaborative mindset
- Experience with cloud infrastructure; Azure preferred, including cloud-native services such as serverless functions, managed databases, queues, and blob storage
Benefits
- Short- and long-term incentives, as applicable
- Growth and developmental opportunities
- Robust benefits, such as health care, retirement, vacation and other paid time off
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