Software Development Engineer - Backend

Job Description

Software Development Engineer III - Backend (GMSS Team)

Software Development Engineer III Backend , GMSS , Bangalore

About Warner Bros. Discovery:

Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines Warner Media's premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.

For more information, please visit www.wbd.com

Meet Our Team:

GMSS(Global Manifest Stitcher Service) mission is to provide global, self-service, multi tenant, turn-key server-side ad insertion for all DTC brands, for live simulcasts, live events, start-over, catch-up, and traditional VOD, across all the devices and platforms that matter for DTC customers.

Roles & Responsibilities:
• You are experienced and capable of playing a leading role to design and develop major functional changes to existing software systems, or new ones, involving yourself and other Engineers
• You make good decisions and exercise accurate judgment when choosing to build new vs extending existing ones
• You provide guidance on design, coding, and operational best practices, and have a track-record of applying these best practices to software that you have worked on
• You propose and proactively seek to establish best practices where none exist
• You make high impact decisions driving, what and how software is built
• You analyze requirements, study software architectures and designs to make decisions suiting the requirements. You are often right, and you are persuasive in delivering your suggestions and ideas to your team
• You mentor junior Engineers, overseeing their designs, code quality, and integration into a team. Your success is judged as much on your own productivity as on the positive impact you have on Engineers around you
• You communicate through data, dates and facts, applying them as appropriate to motivate and inspire
• You are comfortable with scrum agile methodologies, adapting best engineering practices by showing people, not just telling people
• You are equally passionate about code testability as you are for writing methodical, readable code.

What to Bring:
• 9 - 12 years, Proficient in Java 8, including use of Futures and Streams. OTT domain experience is a must.
• You are proficient in Reactive programming, asynchronous, non-blocking backend engineering languages like Java, Go, Node JS, etc. Also familiar with Akka, Playframework, writing highly scalable engineering backend services and messaging services like Kafka, SQS and others.
• Experience with one or more of: PostgreSQL and MySQL, Caching solutions (such as Redis and Guava), Search engine technology(preferably Elasticsearch)
• Knowledge of, and professional experience with most AWS services, and deeper knowledge of EC2, S3, Kinesis, CloudFront and CloudWatch
• Usage and deep understanding of Docker and Kubernetes

What We Offer:
• A Great Place to work
• Equal opportunity employer
• Fast track growth opportunities

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

The Legal Bits…

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at recruitadmin@wbd.com.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g66bnq-18-191-132-143-42 in your application.