Junior Software Engineer

Job Description

Responsibilities
The NBC News Production Engineering department is responsible for systems and processes supporting global news gathering operations. With central operations located in New York, NY; the team's focus is on building, supporting, and maintaining broadcast equipment and software ranging from ingest, editing, transcoding, archives, and playout to air for News, Entertainment, Sports and Special Events.

Responsibilities Include:
• Work on system integration and development for the group, helping build and expand our technical and team practices.
• Plan, Build, test, review and deliver software solutions for our various new production systems.
• Work with other engineering departments to collaboratively develop across the systems.
• Collaborate on the design of data models, data flows, schemas and API contracts within the group and across the News bureaus.
• Knowledge of Media Asset Management systems, Newsroom systems, Avid Interplay is beneficial.
• Extend and enhance existing systems and workflows to meet the ongoing demands from the business.

Qualifications/Requirements
Qualifications/Requirements:
• A Bachelor's degree (or higher-level degree) in computer science or a related field and/or a history of relevant work experience.
• 3+ years of experience in Python Full Stack development and integration with various modern applications with development practices.
• Experience in developing professional web applications using Open-Source framework and User Interface applications using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, JSON, XHTML , XML and SOA
• Experience with creating, querying, and maintaining databases with many DBMS such as MySQL, Cassandra, SQLite, PostgreSQL, and Oracle.
• Experience in Celery/RabbitMQ/Kubernetes.
• Experience in both Windows and UNIX//Linux platforms including programming and debugging skills in NIX Shell Scripting.
• Must be willing to work in New York, NY.

Desired Characteristics
• 3+ Years of experience in handling Media Asset Management systems. Knowing Avid Interplay MAM, Media Central is a plus.
• 3+ Years of experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Strong testing and debugging skills.
• Strong Operational familiarity with broadcast production, workflows or video productions systems is helpful. Experience with back-end engineering, including knowledge on architectural practices, valuating and implementing new technologies.
• Experience in compile, package and deploy. Knowing Salt Stack, Jenkins, Docker, ANT and Maven will be a plus.
• Experience in Cloud based services. Knowing Cloudian, BlackPearl and Amazon will be a plus.
• Experience with server/client Virtualization protocols.
• Strong desire to learn and cross-train in new technologies and passion to maintain current knowledge of relevant technologies.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and projects simultaneously, working independently and as part of a team in a collaborative manner.
• Excellent communication skills, with a cool levelheaded approach.
• Able to clearly & succinctly communicate actions and/or next steps.
• Highly customer focused and very responsive (listens, understands and acts).
• Willing to adapt to new technologies as needed.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gxoj11-18-226-226-186-42 in your application.