Software Engineer I Android/Connected TV
Position Summary
We are hiring a Software Engineering, Android & Connected TV role for the Digital and Direct-to-Consumer product for Magnolia, a joint venture partnership between Discovery, Inc. and Chip and Jo Gaines. This is a critical role in helping us develop and launch the Magnolia product on FireTV, Android, Fire Tablet, and Android TV platforms. With Magnolia, we’re looking to solve practical problems for customers, improve their everyday lives, and create passionate and loyal fans.
Within your role, you’ll be an integral part of a team of engineers, product managers, and designers to build the Magnolia platform. You’ll also collaborate with other engineering team members to develop shared frameworks that can be used across other D2C products, and will participate in the full product development lifecycle from concept to launch.
This will be a hands-on role where you’ll be successful by developing an engaging customer experience, develop with an eye towards quality and re-use, provide input on architectural and product direction, and collaborate with your teams on the end-to-end customer experience. As an Android & ConnectedTV developer on this team, you’ll focus on contributing to our Kotlin codebase, participate in code reviews, and own tasks and projects to their completion
Responsibilities
1. Deliver high-quality, high-performance, scalable code for the Magnolia product
2. Participate in architectural design sessions and data optimizations to produce a fast, scalable product on the connected TV platforms.
3. Ensure high quality code is delivered. This includes monitoring app crashes, memory usage, and product quality; and participate in issue resolution.
4. Participate in automated quality assurance phase of the development cycle.
5. Participate in day-to-day support of project initiatives including: participation in sprint planning, team retrospectives, code reviews, and user interviews.
6. Assist in implementation of effective engineering processes and policies that emphasize quality and forward progress.
7. Represent Discovery engineering in industry events.
Requirements
* Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field from an accredited college or university, or commensurate experience
* Experience: 2+ years in an engineering contributor role on the Android platform
* Good understanding of Connected TV UI design, implementation best practices, and performance optimizations; specific to the Android TV and FireTV platforms.
* You have experience shipping Android applications and you are up to date on the current state of the Android ecosystem
* Knowledge of cloud infrastructure and platforms (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Heroku) is a plus.
* Knowledge of large scale application architecture, design, implementation and performance tuning.
* Experience writing and maintaining Unit and Integration tests