About the role
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a leading role in shaping the technical direction of entertainment distribution platforms. You will collaborate closely with engineers, project managers, and product managers to find the best solution for our guests. You will drive projects end-to-end: design and develop solutions; find alignment with technology and product teams; execute the necessary code; and oversee the deployment of code to production. Members of the team look to your code and documentation as examples of excellence. You value good-faith collaboration, driving best practices, and promoting excellence on your team.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the architectural direction for software development projects, ensuring alignment with overall platform strategy.
- Own complex, distributed systems from design to deployment, ensuring high availability, resiliency, and technical excellence.
- Effectively communicate with stakeholders on project progress.
- Write code that establishes and enhances frameworks and design proof of concepts.
- Determine the most efficient means to sufficiently test new code: unit tests, integration tests, performance tests, etc.
- Follow best practices for the team for on-call responsibilities such as deployments, monitoring, and investigating incidents.
- Use logs, monitoring tools, etc. and work with developers to determine root causes across distributed components during production incidents.
- Champion engineering best practices across code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability, and incident response.
- Mentor and coach engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Contribute to technical documentation and promote knowledge sharing across teams.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
- 5+ years of experience in building highly available architecture, shipping robust code and creating a positive team environment.
- Experience crafting and operating large-scale, high-availability backend services using Java.
- Experience deploying and scaling within a cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS (EC2, ECS, Fargate, DynamoDB, Lambda).
- Demonstrated success in being part of a team, problem-solving, designing and implementing software at scale.
- Experience with performance tuning and building/maintaining software that is in the critical path.
- Biased towards action, with experience delivering high-quality software solutions on time, at scale and within budget.
- Experience using source control systems and CI/CD pipelines (such as Git, Github, Jenkins).
- Experience with AGILE/Scrum practices.
- Experience with observability tools for metrics, logging, and monitoring (such as Datadog and Grafana).
- Proven leadership, coaching, and mentoring skills, with the ability to inspire and empower a team towards achieving business goals.
- Excellent communication skills and a commitment to collaboration in a fast-paced, guest-focused environment.