Full Stack Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

Full Stack Senior Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, CA (SoMa)

Sony Interactive Entertainment is developing a platform to unify our Search experiences across the PlayStation Network. The Senior Software Engineer role will help architect, design, and develop this critical platform. You will help shape the future of the world's largest gaming, immersive interaction and entertainment personalized search platform.

Responsibilities:
• Lead the solution end-to-end; Build solutions to improve both the customer experience as well as the back end solutions to support it
• Design and develop near-real-time distributed systems to deliver personalized search experience across PlayStation products
• Construct blazing fast customer experiences across PlayStation Consoles and Mobile
• End to end ownership of the development process; from working with product requirements to go-to-market strategy
• Build highly available and performant systems
• Design, implement, ship and maintain highly visible consumer-facing features
• Seek scalability issues with innovative technologies
• Lead and mentor junior team members
• Identify search relevance/ranking model industry trends and build roadmap for adoption

Requirements:
• Experience developing high scale, distributed systems for information retrieval system like Lucene/Elasticsearch or Solr
• Experience in Social Graph Search
• Expertise in Java and familiar with Spark
• Expertise JavaScript, HTML/CSS skills
• Experience using a modern JavaScript UI framework - ex: React, Vue or Angular. React Native development experience is a plus
• Experience writing multi-threaded applications
• Experience in front end-side performance tuning
• Work with Spring Boot, Kafka, Graph database, Docker and Kubernetes in current role
• Built and developed Cloud-based applications or services, preferably in AWS
• Ability to balance periodic on-call duty as well as out-of-band requests
• Conduct technical deep dives into the code, cloud networking, deployments, and architecture, and work closely with product and operation

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r0wj41-52-14-126-74-42 in your application.