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• Adopt and champion AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, and share best practices across the team.
• Partner with QA to deliver quality features in a timely manner.
• Ensure sufficient unit test coverage for backend services, working closely with the Tech Lead to validate test quality and completeness.
• Support and mentor junior engineers in writing effective unit tests and fostering a test-first mindset.
• Collaborate with product managers to refine requirements and ensure engineering alignment with business goals.
• Partner with engineers to confirm solutions meet product and technical requirements.
• Contribute to Agile development processes by participating in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and ensuring timely delivery of features.
• Guide junior engineers through mentorship, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.
• Champion best practices in CI/CD, containerization, and observability/monitoring.
• Contribute to t...ncluding microservices and event-driven messaging architectures
• Proven experience with AWS (preferred) or other cloud platforms and building distributed, scalable systems
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Git, and containerization
• Experience embedding security and compliance best practices into backend and API design
• Strong understanding of system design principles, including scalability, performance optimization, and high availability.
• Proficiency in leveraging and evaluating AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate development, improve code quality, and enhance productivity.
• Experience implementing observability practices, including monitoring, logging, and alerting, to ensure system reliability.
• Strong experience in Agile development, including contributing to sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives to ensure high-quality delivery.
• Experience writing and maintaining unit and integration tests, with the ability to guide less-experienced engin...PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
• Media & entertainment industry experience
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Nomad)
• Exposure to multiple backend frameworks is a plus (including .NET Core and its ecosystem)
• Ability to evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-assisted tools, and advocate for their adoption to improve engineering productivity.