Software Development Manager

Job Description

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 for 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 senior software development manager to join our team and lead the development and operations of the web/mobile/Connected TV apps for our Magnolia product, a joint venture partnership between Discovery, Inc. and Magnolia. You’ll be part of a team of talented web/mobile/Connected TV engineers, work closely with our product, design and engineering teams that are located in many offices throughout the world.

Responsibilities
• Lead and participate in the technical decisions for a new product area
• Work with the global architecture team to break down high-level product vision into manageable pieces for development execution
• Collaborate with other team members to build shared services that can serve many applications and scale independently
• Collaborate with the UX design team to drive for the best possible end-user experience
• Design architecture to support functionality across multiple platforms
• Contribute ideas for continually improving the team’s productivity, job enjoyment, code quality, and engineering excellence
• Focus on Application Security of both user data and content
• Enable our product team to tap into our valuable data sources and build incredible features for our customers
• You understand a broad range of computer science concepts, and know how, when, and when not to use them. You can dive deep into a wide range of technical problems offering suggestions and feedback to your team. Your interest in computer science has not faded as you moved into a leadership role and you are still comfortable with technical details.
• Possesses the ability to multitask and juggle competing priorities, work on multiple sub-projects simultaneously dealing with various stakeholders

Requirements
• You are passionate about software development and designing intuitive UI
• You have 7+ years’ experience developing commercial software products with 5+ years’ experience of building web, mobile apps and/or connected tv apps
• A good track record on building and growing high-performing engineering teams.
• Excellent understanding and current coding skills with technologies and tools such as Java, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Android Kotlin/Java, iOS Swift/Objective C, BrightScript (Roku), React JS, etc.
• Excellent understanding of automated QA tools for testing front-ends across various platforms
• Excellent understanding of front-end app metrics
• Excellent understanding of software/app release processes across various platforms
• Great problem solving, troubleshooting and performance tuning skills
• Proven ability to drive impact and generate results
• Excellent executive communication skills to explain platform vision and operational metrics
• Excellent teamwork and influencing abilities to lead and influence without direct management authority
• Self-starter
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or related fields
• Experience with OTT and connected devices is a definite plus
• Must have the legal right to work in the United States

Nearest Major Market: Seattle

Nearest Secondary Market: Bellevue

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rbx89e-3-139-104-214-42 in your application.