Staff Software Engineer

Job Description

Staff Software Engineer - HBO Max

The Job

The Dynamic Layout team powers the systems that enable our backend platform to present the right mix of curated and personalized experiences to the customer. We develop the design patterns that extend across the organization that enable different business teams to target the exact right content experience to our groups of customers. We own a broad suite of APIs that integrate with the rest of the HBO Max platform, as well as the design patterns that enable our front end partners to quickly iterate on and build the front end experiences. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to interact with the full breadth of systems that depend on our front door systems. You'll create systems that need to scale up with respect to the rest of our backend, and create interfaces to accelerate change.

The Daily
• Join a growing team with many opportunities for you to expand your professional and technical skills.
• Build engaging and intuitive user experiences.
• Work directly with with product and program management to bring features to life
• Work with other engineering teams and designers to improve user experience
• Use your experience to make smart engineering decisions and own critical areas of a product used by millions of customers
• Get the opportunity to have impact across wide areas of the product

The Essentials
• Have a deep understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, and operating systems.
• To be a quick learner that can leverage surrounding resources to solve problems.
• Maintain high quality coding standards for yourself and your team.
• Be passionate about software engineering with a strong sense of ownership for the code that you and your team write
• Seek self-improvement and are adaptable to suggestions and feedback
• Hold yourself and your team to high standards while maintaining friendly, respectful relationships
• 8+ years of experience in design, implementation, and delivery of large engineering projects
• 5+ years of professional development experience using languages such as Javascript, Typescript, Golang, Java, C, C++, C#
• A strong understanding of large scale distributed systems
• Experience with Cloud Computing platforms (AWS, Google app engine, Azure, Kubernetes)
• Experience with cross-team coordination and collaboration
• Experience with dev-ops and 24x7 operational support for the production systems

The Nice to Haves
• Familiarity with JavaScript, TypeScript, and ReactJS
• Full-stack industry experience, or hands-on familiarity with both client and server technology
• Hands-on experience with distributed systems, API design, and backend service scenarios

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rzp337-3-15-10-137-42 in your application.