Manager, Software Engineering (Full Stack), Java&Angular -Bangalore

Role overview

Manager, Software Engineering (Full Stack), Java&Angular -Bangalore at Warner Bros. Discovery

This role combines technical leadership, operational excellence, and people management, with broad visibility across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing team of software engineers.
• Lead the development and continuous improvement of business-critical platforms and services that support enterprise content, metadata, and workflow management capabilities.
• Drive the delivery of scalable, reliable, and high-performance solutions that enable efficient management, governance, and discovery of critical business information.
• Ensure services are highly available, resilient, secure, and cost-effective while maintaining operational excellence and strong engineering practices.
• Drive planning, execution, and delivery across multiple initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, quality standards, and customer outcomes.
• Collaborate with engineering, and business stakeholders to deliver trusted metrics and actionable insights.

Employment details

• Location: Bangalore [Karnātaka] [India]

Additional role details

• Manager, Software Engineering(Full Stack), Java&Angular – Media Supply Chain.
• It owns the platforms, services, and workflows that create, enrich, govern, and maintain trusted program records across the content lifecycle, ensuring content is accurate, discoverable, and consistently used across enterprise systems.
• People Leadership & Team Development.
• Foster a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and operational rigor.
• Partner with engineering leadership on hiring, organizational planning, and talent development.
• Set clear expectations and help engineers balance velocity, quality, and reliability.
• Build an inclusive, collaborative environment where engineers can do their best work.
• Technical & Delivery Leadership.
• Define and execute technical strategy, architecture direction, and roadmap priorities, balancing short-term business needs with long-term platform evolution.
• Partner with product, operations and other engineering stakeholders to deliver impactful capabilities that improve efficiency, automation, data quality, and user experience.
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence through technical leadership, mentoring, process improvement, and adoption of modern development practices and technologies.
• Product & Cross-Functional Collaboration.
• Partner with Product Management to define roadmaps and priorities for content and observability capabilities.
• Drive alignment across teams to execute complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Act as an advocate for internal customers, treating data and observability capabilities as products.
• Communicate technical strategy, risks, and progress effectively to leadership and stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience). 12-15 years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years leading and developing high-performing engineering teams.
• Strong technical foundation in cloud-native applications, microservices, APIs, and distributed systems, with experience defining architecture, driving technical strategy, and guiding engineering teams.
• Experience in Java/Spring Boot, Angular, AWS, relational and non-relational databases, event-driven architectures, and modern CI/CD practices.
• Proven track record of delivering scalable, reliable, and business-critical platforms while balancing engineering excellence, operational efficiency, and business priorities.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and partnering effectively with Product, Business, Operations, Data, and Engineering stakeholders to deliver strategic outcomes.
• Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and coaching skills, with the ability to build high-performing teams and foster a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Experience with graph databases, metadata management platforms, or large-scale content and asset management systems.
• Experience leading platform modernization, technology transformation, or consolidation initiatives involving multiple legacy systems and data sources into a unified platform.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale platforms with complex data, governance, workflow, and operational requirements.
• Experience in media, content management, digital asset management, streaming, or other large-scale digital platforms.
• Championing Inclusion at WBD.