Senior Software Engineer -Localization (GLP Team), Bangalore

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Senior Software Engineer -Localization (GLP Team), Bangalore

About Warner Bros. Discovery:

Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world’s most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines Warner Media’s premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery’s leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.

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Meet Our Team:

The Global Localization Platform team is responsible for an  automated string management platform  that transforms how we handle user-facing text across all our products, as well as the tools and tooling components used to manage localizations through self-service within our internal suite of tools called Studio. This platform significantly boosts the productivity of Copywriters and Translation Operations, while improving the workflow for development teams that integrate language strings. By automating string collection, translation and deployment, the team ensures higher-quality English and translated strings are delivered faster and more consistently. In short, our team’s work underpins the  localization  efforts that make Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming products truly global.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Global Localization Platform team in Bangalore, India. As a Senior Engineer:

• You are a recognized subject matter expert in one or more areas of our production systems.

• You have consistently demonstrated the ability to independently design, build and ship high-quality features at scale

• You work on complex problems with diverse technical dimensions, proactively bringing clarity to ambiguous requirements and proposing sound, scalable solutions.

• You operate with a high degree of autonomy, requiring minimal oversight.

• You take pride in delivering robust, maintainable and well-tested code that meets both functional and non-functional requirements.

• You continuously improve the quality of our systems and our engineering practices, thinking long-term about the health of our codebases, observability and documentation.

• You are also an active contributor to a collaborative, inclusive team environment.

• Your impact goes beyond code. You are a persuasive communicator who influences your peers through thoughtful design and code reviews and you adapt your communication style to different audiences.

• You frequently interact with stakeholders and adjacent teams and you help align cross-functional efforts through strong technical writing and documentation.

• You mentor and support less experienced engineers, helping them become productive and successful team members.

• Design, develop and maintain scalable backend and frontend services that power WBD’s localization infrastructure, enabling fast and high-quality delivery of multilingual content across platforms like HBO Max, Discovery+ and CNN.

• Take ownership of major technical components of the  Global Localization  platform, contributing to architectural decisions and proposing solutions for performance, scalability and reliability challenges.

• Lead by example in writing clean, maintainable and well-tested code across technologies including  Node.js ,  Java ,  React  and  TypeScript .

• Drive feature implementation from idea to production — breaking down requirements, proposing designs, estimating effort, writing code, creating tests and monitoring after deployment.

• Actively participate in code reviews and design discussions, helping raise the technic…