Job Posting Title Senior Frontend Engineer CMS Team
Department CBS Sportscom Technology
Senior Frontend Engineer CMS TeamCBS Sports
Join CBS Digital and help 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 Senior Frontend Engineer to join our Content Management CMS team as a hands-on individual contributor building the systems that power millions of fan experiences.
What You Will Do
- Build AI Features Develop and contribute to the design of Generative AI and Retrieval Augmented Generation RAG systems that power intelligent recommendations and dynamic user personalization
- Develop Production Features Take features from prototype to production for mobile and web applications owning your work end to end
- Follow Strengthen Standards Apply established platform standards engineering patterns and reusable components and contribute improvements as you spot them
- Collaborate Prototype Partner with engineers designers and product partners in a small team to rapidly design develop and prototype solutions to key business challenges
- Leverage AI Tooling Use AI development tools to accelerate your own workflow and share effective practices with the team
- Operational Excellence Build solutions with scalability and reliability in mind including appropriate testing monitoring and alerting
- Document Share Knowledge Write clear documentation and diagrams to make onboarding easier for teammates and support partners Review code for style testability and efficiency
- Monorepo Workflows Work within monorepo tooling eg Turborepo Nx to support build test and deploy across web and mobile applications
- Type Safety Follow and help refine TypeScript and typing standards eg strict mode shared types codegen so codebases stay maintainable and refactor safe.
Required Qualifications
- AI Awareness Familiarity with Generative AI and RAG architectures or genuine interest in ramping up quickly
- Platform Mindset Experience contributing to scalable platform products and working within crossteam engineering standards
- Stakeholder Collaboration Ability to collaborate effectively with crossfunctional stakeholders in a dynamic fastpaced environment
- Browser Performance Solid understanding of browser behavior rendering and frontend performance eg Core Web Vitals lazy loading code splitting
- Monorepo Experience Working knowledge of monorepo tooling and workflows eg Turborepo Nx including shared packages task pipelines and crossproject dependencies
- Education Experience BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 5 years of experience building scalable productiongrade web applications using modern JavaScript frameworks React Nextjs and Nodejs
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript including asynchronous programming generics strict typing and advanced ES6 features
- Solid knowledge of HTML and CSS including responsive layout crossbrowser compatibility accessibility and performance optimization
- Experience consuming and designing APIs REST and GraphQL including Apollo Client and microservicesbased architectures
- Experience modeling data flows for transactional and integration workflows
- Experience working with cloud platforms AWS GCP or OCI and containerized environments Docker Kubernetes
- Familiarity with distributed systems concepts including caching Redis Memcached and messaging systems Kafka RabbitMQ
- Experience building scalable highperformance applications
- Strong debugging and performance troubleshooting skills including use of monitoringobservability tools eg OpenTelemetry New Relic
- Soft Skills Able to analyze debug and troubleshoot complex code problems Passion for sports and a dedication to creating exceptional fan experiences
- Preferred Qualifications
- Exposure to popular proprietary or opensource CMS systems such as WordPress Drupal Joomla or Magento
- Vector Databases Experience with one or more vector databases eg TurboPuffer Mongo Atlas is a plus
- Cloud Focus 2 years experience working with cloud technologies AWS strongly preferred
- Frontend Skills ReactNextjs experience with strong HTMLCSS fundamentals layout specificity crossbrowser compatibility
- Collaboration Crossteam collaboration on requirements implementation and testing
- Certifications Cloud certifications GCP AWS OCI
- AI Tooling Experience with AI development tools Cursor Copilot etc and an interest in helping the team apply guardrailsrules commands skills subagentsto keep AIgenerated code clean and productionready
- Theming Styling Experience with multiple styling approaches StyleX CSS Modules SASS CSSin