Software Development Engineer II
Location:
Bellevue, WA, US, 98004
Date: Jul 13, 2021
Req ID: 3379
Description:
Discovery hires the very best and brightest talent who are enthusiastic and passionate to fulfill the company’s mission of empowering people to explore their world and satisfy their curiosity.
In exchange for their talent and drive, employees are provided with an engaging, diverse workplace and the resources they need to learn, thrive and grow in their careers.
Job Summary
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 to 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 microservices 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 connected TVs, web, mobile phones, tablets, and consoles for a large footprint of Discovery owned networks. This is a growing, global engineering group crucial to Discovery’s future.
We are hiring a Software Development Engineer II to join our Content Interactivity team part of the Direct-to-Consumer Global Technology group. As a core technical member in the team, this individual will make significant contributions to Rating and Reviews Platform, Recommendations platform, User Behaviour tracking in real time and services & integrations that would enable the Discovery users explore content seamlessly across the digital platforms.
The ideal candidate has an established background in developing customer-obsessed experiences, a strong technical ability, great communication skills, a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment, a high level of creativity, great analytical reasoning skills, and of course, passion for technology.
Responsibilities
- Build a deep understanding of Discovery Digital Platforms, User Base and their Content Interactivity product roadmaps.
- Work closely with the software development manager and mentors in the team to stay on top of technical architecture, roadmap and apply the guiding principles in the software development.
- Design, develop and integrate Content interactivity frameworks, services and infrastructure that enable best user experience in accessing the integrated digital content.
- Enhance and support existing Content interactivity services and integrations.
- Demonstrate proactiveness in owning the delivered software and be responsible for documentation, release management and production support.
- Be vocal with the product ideas & technology recommendations, suggestions and concerns that influence the team working environment.
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science or related field
- 5+ years of development experience in consumer-focused companies
- Proven technical experience as a software developer
- Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures & algorithms
- Familiar with cloud computing infrastructure like AWS and/or Azure and/or GCP
- Experience developing in node/typescript
- Experience architecting and building large distributed scalable systems
- Ability to work with a diverse, distributed and agile team
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Very strong communication skills
- Must have the legal right to work in the United States
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with mission critical, 24x7 systems
- Experience with high throughput, multi-threaded distributed systems
- Experience with Kafka, Elastic Search, Dynamo DB, Grafana
- Experience influencing software engineers’ best practices within your team
Discovery Communications, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Discovery is committed to being an employer of choice, not just a good place to work, but a great and inclusive place to work. To that end, we strive to recruit and maintain a workforce that meaningfully represents the diverse and culturally rich communities that we serve. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disabled status or, genetic information.
We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including but not limited to all local Fair Chance Ordinances.