Director Of Engineering

Job Description

Discovery also has a strong portfolio of free-to-air channels across Europe making it a leading broadcaster in a number of countries, including Norway, Sweden, Italy, Poland, Germany and the UK. As a purpose-driven company, we are dedicated to not only entertaining but inspiring.

For 30 years we have told stories that entertain, inspire and enlighten our viewers around the world, about the world. But our work doesn't stop there. We are committed to making the world a better place by leveraging our market-leading global platform, and by extending the reach and influence of like-minded organizations and causes. We also are dedicated to employee volunteerism across the globe.

About Discovery

Discovery is the world's leading non-fiction media company with a reach of three billion viewers in 220 countries.

The Direct to Consumer (DTC) group is an Engineering company within the Discovery brand. DTC's engineering teams build applications for Web, Mobile, Connected TVs and Consoles/STBs covering features like Search, Playback, ML driven Recommendation, Subscriptions, Payments etc. We are building a Global Video Streaming Platform to support a broad collection of Discovery's brands (Discovery, TLC, Motor Trend, Golf TV, Food Network, Eurosport, and many more) including the recently launched Discovery+. These applications are powered by a fleet of cloud-native microservices for Content Ingestion, Metadata processing, Video encoding & Ad Tech platform on AWS containers & serverless-compute.

The Ad Tech group works on building state-of-the-art Ad technology platforms and services that power the Discovery + and other digital services offered by Discovery globally.

Job Summary

We are hiring a Director of Engineering - a senior leadership position to join our Ad tech team at DTC. The ideal candidate has a track record of building high performance engineering teams and impeccable agile processes to successfully ship backend services. Understanding of OTT video and Ad tech domain would be a significant plus.

Your work and your approach to work are exemplary: you drive best practices and set standards for your team. You continuously monitor the team performance by tracking key parameters and metrics and adjust the process to ensure quality, consistent engineering output.

You are a key leader of leaders and show great judgement in choosing the right team member(s) and mobilizing resources for various tasks. You are a mentor and a guide to all team members and your actions make the team more productive, by sharing your knowledge, and helping to tie-break key technical decisions.

You are an excellent engineer with a strong foundation in computer science and programming languages. You have risen up the ranks as an excellent hands-on engineer building and shipping high performance, highly scalable backend software systems and can lead by example as the situation demands.

You will be leading a team of very talented SDE-1/2/3s to deliver solid quality output. You are an inspiring leader and have a vision to build a strong engineering team that consistently delivers on quality output with the right delivery estimates. Your approach to work is exemplary: you are a stickler for processes, have passion for innovation, drive best practices and are looked upon as a reliable leader and mentor by your subordinates. Your team loves to work with you because you inspire, develop, and care for their team members. You build a strong sense of ownership among your team.

You should be open to communicating on calls with US and Europe stakeholders for coordination (keep in mind odd timings of the same) and should be open to travel if needed.

Responsibilities

1. You are the leader of multiple engineering teams

2. You are responsible for setting up effective agile process for code development, documentation, quality assurance and ensuring operational excellence in production environment

3. You will work with external stake owners like the product team / TPMs / Architects to ensure your team delivers at the highest level at all times

4. You are excellent at project management, working on tools, conducting analysis and reports to ensure the best output is delivered by the team

5. You are a good judge of people and are able to delegate and get the best out of your team members. You are excellent at tracking activities and at ensuring accountability.

6. You will ensure proper documentation is in place for every deliverable.

7. You own the system till the end of its lifecycle. Hence all the handovers, knowledge transfers of functional requirement specifications, implementation details, design details are owned by you for maintenance.

8. You are the owner of the production system when your team's code goes to production. You must ensure all necessary monitoring, health check, quality matrices are added and monitored properly when it goes live.

9. You will take proactive measures if you see any issues with these monitors. You will also handle coordination between dev-ops and the support team

Requirements

1. You have worked in a rapidly changing environment and thrive in a startup environment and are proficient in dealing with ambiguity

2. You understand a broad range of computer science concepts and know-how, when, and when not to use them.

3. You can dive deep into a wide range of technical problems offering suggestions and feedback to your team.

4. 8-10 years of professional experience architecting, developing, and launching software products and/or services.

5. 5-8 years of experience managing successful engineering teams including hiring and performance management. BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field

What We Offer
• A Great Place to work
• Equal opportunity employer
• Fast track growth opportunities
Our Values:

Discovery is governed by our eight guiding principles:
• We Are... One Team, Creative Dreamers, Doers. Consumer Obsessed. Global, Quick & Agile, Purposeful and We Do the Right Thing

• Discovery's Guiding Principles define the distinctive character, spirit and attitude of our organization. They inspire how we design our future and recruit talent.

Diversity & Inclusion:

Disclaimer: 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.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g3k9bq-3-145-108-9-42 in your application.