Lead Software Engineer

This is a Full Time Job

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Job Posting Title: Lead Software Engineer, CBS Sports Digital
Department: CBS Sports.com Technology
Location: Louisville, Kentucky; Nashville, Tennessee; Fort Lauderdale, Florida;

Lead Software Engineer, Solutions Team - CBSSports

Join CBS Digital and shape the future of sports & news media through cutting-edge AI-powered content and deeply personalized fan experiences across mobile, web, and digital platforms. We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to be a core member of our Content Management team.

What You Will Do
â- Implement AI Features: Implement and assist in the architecture of advanced Generative AI and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems to power intelligent recommendations and dynamic user personalization.
â- Drive Development: Drive the rapid prototyping and full-cycle development of production-grade features for mobile and web applications.
â- Contribute to Standards: Promote and adhere to scalable platform standards, engineering patterns, and reusable components across the organization.
â- Collaborate and Prototype: Work closely within a small engineering group, partnering with design and product teams to rapidly design, develop, and prototype solutions to key business challenges.
â- Utilize AI: Utilize AI development tools to optimize your workflow and promote the use of AI-driven development practices across the team.
â- Operational Excellence: Implement solutions with scalability and reliability in mind, incorporating appropriate testing, monitoring, and alerting.
â- Mentor and Document: Contribute to clear documentation and diagrams to facilitate easy onboarding for other engineers and support teams. Review code to ensure adherence to best practices (style, testability, efficiency).
â- Monorepo Tooling: Utilize and contribute to the evolution of monorepo tooling and workflows (e.g., Turborepo, Nx) to support build, test, and deploy across web and mobile applications.
â- Type Safety & Standards: Adhere to and contribute to the evolution of TypeScript and typing standards (e.g., strict mode, shared types, codegen) so that codebases stay maintainable, type-safe end to end, and refactor-safe.

Required Qualifications
â- Experience in AI: Experience or familiarity with Generative AI and RAG architectures.
â- Platform Experience: Experience contributing to scalable platform products and adhering to cross-team engineering standards.
â- Stakeholder Collaboration: Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional stakeholders in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
â- Browser & Performance: Solid understanding of browser behavior, rendering, and front-end performance (e.g., Core Web Vitals, lazy loading, code splitting).
â- Monorepo Experience: Experience with monorepo tooling and workflows (e.g., Turborepo, Nx), including shared packages, task pipelines, and cross-project dependencies.
â- Education & Experience: BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
â- 7 years of experience building scalable, production-grade web applications using modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Next.js) and Node.js.
â- Strong expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript, including asynchronous programming, generics, strict typing, and advanced ES6 features.
â- Deep knowledge of HTML and CSS, including responsive layout, cross-browser compatibility, accessibility, and performance optimization.
â- Experience consuming and designing APIs (REST and GraphQL), including Apollo Client and microservices-based architectures.
â- Proven experience modeling complex data flows for transactional and integration workflows.
â- Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or OCI) and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
â- Familiarity with distributed systems concepts including caching (Redis, Memcached) and messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
â- Experience designing and developing highly scalable, high-performance applications.
â- Strong debugging and performance troubleshooting skills, including use of monitoring/observability tools (e.g., OpenTelemetry, New Relic).
â- Soft Skills: Able to analyze, debug, and troubleshoot complex code problems. Passion for sports and a dedication to creating exceptional fan experiences.

Preferred Qualifications
â- Exposure to popular proprietary or open-source CMS systems such as Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento
â- 1 years experience with one or more vector databases (e.g., TurboPuffer, Mongo Atlas).
â- Cloud Focus: 3 years experience working with Cloud technologies (AWS is strongly preferred).
â- Frontend Skills: React/Next.js experience with fundamental HTML/CSS (layout, specificity, cross-browser compatibility).
â- Collaboration: Proven experience in cross-team collaboration for requirements, implementation, and testing.
â- Certifications: Cloud certifications (GCP, AWS, OCI).
â- AI Tooling & Standards: Experience with AI development tools (Cursor, Copilot, etc.) and with setting up guardrails?rules, commands, skills, sub-agents?to keep AI-generated code clean, consistent, and production-ready.
â- Theming & Styling: Experience with multiple styling approaches (Stylex, CSS Modules, SASS, CSS-in-JS) and design tokens in component libraries or design system.

What We Offer:
? An exciting and fulfilling opportunity to be part of one of Paramountâ??s most dynamic teams.
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