Software Development Engineer I
Position Summary
We are looking for technically deep, analytical software engineering leaders to join our growing Bellevue team. If your interest lies in building highly scalable container-based services, then this may be the team for you.
As television and media habits change, our mission remains true to the principles that founded Discovery – every day we seek to ignite people’s curiosity to engage, entertain and enlighten the world around them through amazing viewing experiences.
The Direct 2 Consumer Group is a technology company within the Discovery brand. We are building a global streaming video platform (OTT), and a suite of applications to support all of our network’s brands globally. We are building modern container-based micro-services operated on AWS. Our platform covers everything from search, catalogue, video transcoding, personalization, to global subscriptions, and really much more. We build user experiences ranging from classic lean-back viewing to interactive learning applications. We build for connected TVs, web, mobile phones, tablets, and consoles for a large footprint of Discovery owned networks. (Discovery, Food Network, Golf TV, MotorTrend, Eurosport, Discovery Play, and many more) This is a growing, global engineering group crucial to Discovery’s future.
Responsibilities
We are hiring software development engineers to join our team in Bellevue. The ideal candidate has a track record of shipping high quality features in industry software engineering roles. You have solved business problems with simple and straightforward solutions, applied appropriate technologies and software engineering best practices, delivered high-quality results the first time and improved code, documentation, and results with each iteration. Your existing team trusts your work.
Requirements
* You have demonstrated the ability to use common industry tools for software development including but not limited to IDEs, build and continuous integration, source control management, code review tools, data storage services, and cloud infrastructure, and you are able to build software in a professional team environment delivered to production using these tools.
* You are able to take documented designs prepared by more experienced engineers and contribute code to implement the design working solo or with other engineers together.
* You are able to provide technical documentation describing your contributions and contribute enhancements to your team’s best practices.
* Must have the legal right to work in the United States.
Preferred Skills
* Proficient in Java 8, including use of Fugtures and Streams
* Experience with one or more of: PostgreSQL and MySQL, Caching solutions (such as Redis and Guava), Search engine technology (preferably ElasticSearch)
* Knowledge of, and professional experience with most AWS services, and deeper knowledge of EC2, S3, Kinesis, CloudFront and CloudWatch.
* Asynchronous, non-blocking, functional style of programming and experience implementing with frameworks such as Vert.x, Spring, Node.js
* Usage and deep understanding of Docker and Kubernetes