Lead Software Engineer - Subscription

Job Description

Lead Software Engineer (Back-End) - Subscription
Overview:

Warner Bros. Discovery's Engineering team in Stockholm ships some of the core services of Warner Bros. Discovery's global and growing streaming video platform. We are now a hub for a growing global engineering group of hundreds of software engineers. We are looking for technically deep, analytical software engineers to join our growing Stockholm team. If your interest lies in building highly scalable container-based services, this may be your team.

Warner Bros. Discovery's DTC organization sits at the intersection of tech, entertainment, and everyday utility. We are continuously leveraging new technology to build immersive and interactive viewing experiences. Our platform covers everything from search, catalog, and video transcoding, to personalization, global subscriptions, and more. We are committed to delivering quality user experiences, ranging from video streaming to applications across connected TV, mobile, web, and consoles. As a pure tech organization, we are essential to Warner Bros. Discovery's continued growth, building world-class products from the ground up for our iconic brands like HBO Max, Discovery Channel, CNN, Food Network, HGTV, Eurosport, MotorTrend, and many more.

About the role

We are hiring Lead Software Development Engineers to join our team in Stockholm. The ideal candidate has a track record of having built multiple high-performance, stable, scalable systems that have been successfully shipped to customers in production. Your work and your approach to work are exemplary: you drive best practices and set standards for your team. You are a key influencer in your team's strategy and contribute significantly to team planning. You show good judgment in making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs. You are a collaborative leader that makes other engineers and team members around you more productive by sharing your knowledge and helping to tie-break key technical decisions. You provide mentoring to other engineers.

About the team

The Subscription Lifecycle teams are in the heart of Warner Bors. Discovery's DTC organization. The teams oversee over 90 million subscriptions for our streaming services and they own business-critical, top-tier services that can't afford downtime and must be highly scalable with prime-time events. The teams own several services that are responsible for new subscriptions, recurring payments, cancellations, and much more.

Responsibilities:
• You lead in designing and developing major functional changes to existing software systems, or new ones, involving yourself and other engineers. You make good decisions when to build new and when to extend existing. You are known for your subject matter expertise.
• Your work and your approach to work are exemplary: you drive best practices and set standards for your team. You can propose and create best practices proactively where none exist.
• You are a key influencer in your team's strategy and contribute significantly to team planning. You show good judgment in making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs. You are a collaborative leader that makes other engineers and team members around you more productive by sharing your knowledge and helping to tie-break key technical decisions. You provide mentoring to other engineers, and your success is judged as much on your productivity as on the positive impact you have on the engineers around you.
• You can troubleshoot a production issue by reviewing source code, logs, operational metrics, stack trace, etc., to pinpoint a specific problem and then resolve it. You can identify root causes and identify learnings to improve both development processes and system design.

Qualifications:
• Proficient in Java and a few other languages.
• Persistence and caching solutions such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, and ElasticSearch.
• Micro-service-based architectures using gRPC and Kafka for interservice communication.
• Asynchronous, non-blocking, functional style of programming and experience implementing with frameworks such as Spring WebFlux, Node.js, vert.x
• Usage and deep understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.
• Experience in building, operating, and truly owning services. Implementing alerting, metrics, and logging using Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana, and PagerDuty.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d5m031-18-227-161-132-42 in your application.