Software Development Engineer

Job Description

Discovery Digital Media is a well-funded start-up within Discovery Inc, a high-performing global team working at the dynamic intersection of Technology and Entertainment. As content creators in the digital space, we continuously leverage our technological capabilities to create immersive viewing experiences for iconic brands including Eurosport, GOLFTV, MotorTrend and DPlay.

We are excited to be recruiting the new opportunity of Software Development Engineer II (Android) to join Dplay, a leading Video on Demand product in Europe with plans for rapid international expansion. The successful candidate will work within a team of Engineers, developing the Dplay app and you will be responsible for the day-to-day development of new features worldwide, across one of our Android applications (Kotlin). You will also ensure that our apps are delivered on time, within budget and meet the quality specifications and goals set out by the business and expected by our customers.

You will collaborate with Delivery Managers, planning sprints and prioritising new feature and bug fixes. In addition, you will use your knowledge and professional experience to influence technical decisions regarding your domain of expertise. This role reports to the Software Development Manager II (Android).

To be successful in this position, you should have a good understanding of the Android SDK and have experience with unit tests. You have demonstrated the ability to use common industry tools for software development including, but not limited to IDEs, build and continuous integration, source control management, code review tools, data storage services, and cloud infrastructure, and you are able to build software in a professional team environment delivered to production using these tools. You are able to take documented designs prepared by more experienced engineers and contribute code to implement the design working solo or with other engineers together. You are able to provide technical documentation describing your contributions and contribute enhancements to your team’s best practices.

About Us
• Lean advocates with a specific focus on BDD and Kanban

• Full Automation test suites favoured over manual QA – we like software engineers in test

• Best in class development

• We like things to be fast and re-usable

• We have a build vs buy mentality; everything is proprietary from front to back!

• Constantly exploring new technology

• Dedicated and hardworking, with an eye on a positive work/life balance

• We work in cross-platform, mission-based squads – with knowledge sharing being a key aspect

• Totally collaborative, but not big fans of meetings

Key Skills and Experience
• Excellent technical awareness and skills, prior development experience of shipping Android applications (Kotlin).

• Strong knowledge of Android UI, Material Design, SOLID Principles, Android Jetpack, TDD

• 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

• Experience working with multiple stakeholders (internal and external) with different goals, objectives and aspirations

• Knowledge of the Android Jetpack (LiveData, Lifecycles, Room)

• Experience and knowledge of TDD and associated frameworks (Junit, Espresso, Mockito, …)

• Experience building dynamic customer-facing apps that use RESTful APIs to operate

• Experience building modular apps, or migrating a monolithic app to a modular architecture

• Knowledge of development best practices, including coding guidelines

• Experience with apps interacting with an AWS backend and knowledge of AWS SDKs

• Knowledge of or previous experience with VOD is a plus, including experience working with video playback on Android apps

• Understanding of MVP, MVI, RxJava/RxAndroid, BDD, AWS, Firebase, VOD, ExoPlayer, GraphQL API is highly desirable

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