Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

Discovery Networks Sweden 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.

Who we are:

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 (DTC) is a technology company within Discovery that is responsible for building a global streaming video platform to support a broad collection of Discovery's diverse brands around the world including Discovery, TLC, Food Network, Investigation Discovery, Animal Planet, Science Channel, HGTV, Eurosport, Motor Trend, and many more.

We are building modern container-based microservices operated on AWS. Our platform covers everything from search, catalog, video transcoding, personalization to global subscriptions, and much more. We build user experiences ranging from classic lean-back viewing to interactive learning applications.

Your team - Site Assembler
Our team is at the heart of the cutting edge streaming platform, providing customers worldwide with top quality experiences.

We are responsible for the headless CMS, the central hub for managing content presentation across platforms and devices. In this way, a lot of the future product innovation lies within our domain by providing more relevant and personalised experience and helping the user find content that they are looking for.

Who are you?

You influence your team's strategy and contribute significantly to team planning. You show good judgment making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs by sharing your perspectives. You are an enthusiastic team member that makes other engineers around you more productive by sharing your knowledge and helping to tie-break key technical decisions.

At discovery+, you build it, own it, and release what you create. This connects you with your personal and technical development. We have an exciting year in front of us with international expansions and huge sporting events such as Allsvenskan and the Olympics. These services supply all Discovery's users worldwide and allow them to watch all our amazing and diverse content.

About you
• Enthusiastic about new and emerging technologies

• Proficient in Java (few other languages is a plus)

• Persistence and caching solutions such as PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, Caffeine.

• Micro-service-based architectures for interservice communication.

• Asynchronous, non-blocking, functional programming and experience implementation with frameworks such as Spring WebFlux, vert.x

• Usage and understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.

• Experience in building, operating, and a passion for owning services. Implementing alerting, metrics, and logging.

Discovery Networks Sweden is the second largest commercial television group in Sweden.

We have Channel 5, Channel 9, Channel 11, Discovery Channel, TLC, Eurosport 1, Eurosport 2, Animal Planet, Discovery World, Discovery Science, Investigation Discovery, Discovery HD, Animal Planet HD as well as the play service, Dplay.

The most recently acquired principal owner, Discovery Communications, also owns the rights to Olympic 2018 - 2024.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rnkmok-3-21-97-61-42 in your application.