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We create for every age and audience, anchored by the strength of our content and experiences and the depth of our connection with fans. We are creator-first, audience-focused, tech-forward, globally scaled.\nHere, you’ll work with talented teams that move fast, think boldly and collaborate with purpose to deliver results. We aim high, champion the best ideas and win together, earning the trust of our employees, creators, partners and audiences every day.\nIf you’re energized by the opportunity to help build the next-generation global media and entertainment company powered by creativity and technology, we’d be thrilled to welcome you aboard. LET’S GO!\nJob Posting Title: Lead Software Engineer, CBS Sports Digital\nDepartment: CBS Sports.com Technology\nLocation: Louisville, Kentucky; Nashville, Tennessee; Fort Lauderdale, Florida;\nLead Software Engineer, Solutions Team - CBSSports\nJoin 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.\nWhat You Will Do\nImplement 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.\nDrive Development: Drive the rapid prototyping and full-cycle development of production-grade features for mobile and web applications.\nContribute to Standards: Promote and adhere to scalable platform standards, engineering patterns, and reusable components across the organization.\nCollaborate 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.\nUtilize AI: Utilize AI development tools to optimize your workflow and promote the use of AI-driven development practices across the team.\nOperational Excellence: Implement solutions with scalability and reliability in mind, incorporating appropriate testing, monitoring, and alerting.\nMentor 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).\nMonorepo 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.\nType 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.\nRequired Qualifications\nExperience in AI: Experience or familiarity with Generative AI and RAG architectures.\nPlatform Experience: Experience contributing to scalable platform products and adhering to cross-team engineering standards.\nStakeholder Collaboration: Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional stakeholders in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.\nBrowser & Performance: Solid understanding of browser behavior, rendering, and front-end performance (e.g., Core Web Vitals, lazy loading, code splitting).\nMonorepo Experience: Experience with monorepo tooling and workflows (e.g., Turborepo, Nx), including shared packages, task pipelines, and cross-project dependencies.\nEducation & Experience: BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.\n7+ years of experience building scalable, production-grade web applications using modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Next.js) and Node.js.\nStrong expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript, including asynchronous programming, generics, strict typing, and advanced ES6+ features.\nDeep knowledge of HTML and CSS, including responsive layout, cross-browser compatibility, accessibility, and performance optimization.\nExperience consuming and designing APIs (REST and GraphQL), including Apollo Client and microservices-based architectures.\nProven experience modeling complex data flows for transactional and integration workflows.\nExperience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or OCI) and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).\nFamiliarity with distributed systems concepts including caching (Redis, Memcached) and messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ).\nExperience designing and developing highly scalable, high-performance applications.\nStrong debugging and performance troubleshooting skills, including use of monitoring/observability tools (e.g., OpenTelemetry, New Relic).\nSoft Skills: Able to analyze, debug, and troubleshoot complex code problems. Passion for sports and a dedication to creating exceptional fan experiences.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExposure to popular proprietary or open-source CMS systems such as Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento\n1+ years experience with one or more vector databases (e.g., TurboPuffer, Mongo Atlas).\nCloud Focus: 3+ years experience working with Cloud technologies (AWS is strongly preferred).\nFrontend Skills: React/Next.js experience with fundamental HTML/CSS (layout, specificity, cross-browser compatibility).\nCollaboration: Proven experience in cross-team collaboration for requirements, implementation, and testing.\nCertifications: Cloud certifications (GCP, AWS, OCI).\nAI 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.\nTheming & Styling: Experience with multiple styling approaches (Stylex, CSS Modules, SASS, CSS-in-JS) and design tokens in component libraries or design system.\nCBS Sports, a year-round leader in cross-platform sports coverage, broadcasts a portfolio of events on the CBS Television Network, including THE NFL ON CBS; college football, including the Big Ten ON CBS; college basketball, including the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship; golf, including The Masters®, PGA Championship and PGA TOUR; soccer, including the UEFA Champions League and NWSL; and CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR.\nIn addition, the division includes CBS SPORTS NETWORK, the 24-hour cable home of CBS Sports which televises live sports programming throughout the year, including college football and basketball games, UEFA Champions League and Europa League action, Italy's Serie A matches, Concacaf national team competitions, as well as a full slate of original programming and studio coverage.\nCBS Sports also delivers an extensive lineup of global soccer coverage on Paramount+, including every UEFA club competition match, all Serie A matches as well as Concacaf national team competitions, and produces INSIDE THE NFL for Paramount+. CBS Sports Digital's multi-platform offerings include CBSSports.com and the CBS Sports apps for mobile and connected TV devices; the 24/7 streaming sports news network CBS Sports HQ; 247Sports; MaxPreps; CBS Sports fantasy games; and SportsLine.\nWhat We Offer:\nAttractive compensation and comprehensive benefits packages. Check out our full list of benefits here.\nGenerous paid time off.\nComplimentary subscriptions to HBO Max, Paramount+, and other Skydance streaming services and digital news products.\nRobust employee engagement opportunities, including access to exclusive screenings and events, speaker series, volunteer activities and more.\nSkydance is an equal opportunity employer (EOE)\nWe embrace 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. 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