Software Development Engineer

Job Description

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 micro-services 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 (Discovery, Food Network, Golf TV, MotorTrend, Eurosport, Discovery Play, and many more) This is a growing, global engineering group crucial to Discovery's future.

We are hiring a software development engineer to join our direct-to-consumer team.

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
• Degree in Computer Science or related field

• Strong experience of product development experience in consumer-focused companies

• Strong experience of technical experience as software developer, or related role

• Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design

• Computer Science fundamentals in data structures

• Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis

• Expert knowledge of AWS and/or Azure and/or GCP

• Experience developing in at least one of Java, C#, C++ and Go

• Ability to work on a diverse team

• Knowledge of video streaming, codecs, video delivery and broadcast workflows is a big plus.

• 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

• Experience with critical, 24x7 systems

Requirements
• Degree in Computer Science or related field

• Strong experience of product development experience in consumer-focused companies

• Strong experience of technical experience as software developer, or related role

• Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design

• Computer Science fundamentals in data structures

• Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis

• Expert knowledge of AWS and/or Azure and/or GCP

• Experience developing in at least one of Java, C#, C++ and Go

• Ability to work on a diverse team

• Knowledge of video streaming, codecs, video delivery and broadcast workflows is a big plus.

• 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

• 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 systems

• Experience implementing and consuming large-scale web services

• Master's degree in computer science or equivalent

• Experience in development on cloud-based infrastructure

• Experience influencing software engineers' best practices within your team

• Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between

• Excellent problem-solving skills

Nearest Major Market: Seattle

Nearest Secondary Market: Bellevue

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d91b1m-3-133-131-168-42 in your application.