SDE II - Search Services
Position Summary
Discovery, Inc is the leader in global real-life entertainment with powerful brands such as Discovery Channel, Food.com, TLC, Food Network, HGTV, and Travel Channel. Our Digital Studios team develops experiences on the web, mobile, and voice that reaches millions of users each day - inspiring them with ideas and tools to create their own unique world.
We’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our team which manages our search based services. Within your role, you’ll be working with a team of engineers, DevOps engineers, and product managers to build new and enhance existing features.
Responsibilities
1. Develop modern, scalable services that interact with other services as well as with our web, mobile, and voice applications
2. Deliver high quality, high performance, well tested, scalable code
3. Manage the entire lifecycle of services from design to development to operating in production
4. Participate in the on-call rotation (rare after hours support)
5. Day-to-day support of project initiatives including: participation in sprint planning, team retrospectives, and code reviews
6. Work with your teammates and engineers on other teams on deciding and implementing development best practices
7. Weigh several and often conflicting constraints and make rapid decisions in a fast-paced environment with constant change
8. Communicate status, roadblocks and requirements to team management in order to proactively solve problems and drive solutions
Requirements
* A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience
* Experience: 5+ years using Java, Python, Ruby, JavaScript or a similar language
* Experience using a search technology such as Solr or Elasticsearch
* Knowledge of large scale application architecture, design, implementation and performance tuning
* Knowledge of cloud infrastructure and platforms (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud)
* Must have the legal right to work in the United States