Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

Paramount+, a direct-to-consumer digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming service from Paramount Global, combines live sports, breaking news, and a mountain of entertainment. The premium streaming service features an expansive library of original series, hit shows and popular movies across every genre from world-renowned brands and production studios, including BET, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures and the Smithsonian Channel. The service is also the streaming home to unmatched sports programming, including every CBS Sports event, from golf to football to basketball and more, plus exclusive streaming rights for major sports properties, including some of the world's biggest and most popular soccer leagues. Paramount+ also enables subscribers to stream local CBS stations live across the US in addition to the ability to stream Paramount Streaming's other live channels: CBSN for 24/7 news, CBS Sports HQ for sports news and analysis, and ET Live for entertainment coverage.

Scope of Job: Paramount+ is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to drive Smart TV application development, who encompasses strong technical knowledge with extensive experience in designing and developing scalable systems. The role will be hands-on and contribute to the global Paramount+ Smart TV platform development and instrumentation. We're a team that values software that exemplifies simplicity of design, maintainability, extensibility, and foundational robustness.
** To be considered for this role, you must have react.js experience.

Responsibilities:
• Design, build and support high-performance, scalable and innovative components
• Develop and optimize high-performance Smart TV applications
• Live and breathe availability, reliability, and scalability
• Demonstrate strong communication skills to lead through all aspects of the development cycle
• Partner with our central video engineering teams to build, integrate and deploy high-performance video players
• Work with our external partners to develop, debug and deploy applications
• Help build a culture of good engineering processes and practices
• Work closely with other engineers and product teams to meet fixed deadlines
• Work in all phases of software development

Qualifications:
• 7+ years of experience actively entrenched in engineering
• Expert command of distributed microservice architectures and the following technologies
• JavaScript, CSS, React, Git, Webpack
• Solid understanding of OOP principles
• Experience working with RESTful APIs
• Extensive experience engineering solutions from concept to delivery
• Extensive experience in various debugging and optimization techniques
• Experience working in CI/CD environments with devops and SRE principles
• Demonstrate attention to detail, have a positive attitude, willingness to learn, be challenged and take pride in the quality of work
• Passionate about video and video services
• BA/BS degree in a related technical field such as Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience
• Working knowledge of WebGL is desirable but not required
• Experience working in Agile frameworks
• Previous experience working in distributed teams
• Redux
• Typescript
• Experience performing load test and strategies to monitor application health
• Rapid proof-of-concept experience

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Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r0ejy6-3-145-131-238-42 in your application.