Software Engineer Web

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.

Software Engineer, Web Platform

Summary

As part of our engineering team, you will work with project managers, product developers, designers, and brand producers to develop consumer-facing experiences for the Web platform. If you like solving problems creatively, love writing beautiful code, understand data structures and algorithms, are open to feedback from others, and know how to give constructive feedback, we want to hear from you.

Your day-to-day:

Build fast, stable, testable, and reliable front-end and back-end solutions using modern JavaScript technologies for desktop and mobile browsers.

Collaborate with product managers, designers, and your team to build interactive features.

Improve the overall quality, performance, and stability of the codebase.

Participate in Code Reviews where you will be giving and receiving feedback.

Be part of support teams and perform root cause analysis.

Work with a group of developers of various experience levels.

What you bring to the team:
• We are looking for a candidate with 3+ years of hands-on professional experience building and deploying web solutions!
• Deep understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, including algorithms & design patterns!
• Advanced knowledge and passion for client-side web technologies and best practices.
• Advanced understanding of JavaScript, preferably in a React context as well as CSS, its best practices and performance tuning.
• Experience building, deploying, and debugging Node.js applications.
• Experience with Git, branching strategies, and pull requests.

You might also have:

Experience with unit testing methodologies, frameworks, and software/tools as well as writing code using and functional programming approach

Experience with working on a CI/CD workflow process.

Familiar with Scrum and Kanban Agile software development methodologies.

Previous experience with adaptive video streaming technologies, digital advertising platforms, web analytics integration.

You participate and have had success in hackathons.

You will contribute to open source.

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

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-re5nx0-13-58-112-1-42 in your application.