Discovery Inc

Location: Silver Spring, Maryland, United States,
Req ID: 32762

Overview

As television and media habits change, our mission remains true to the principles that founded Discovery every day we seek to ignite peoples curiosity to engage, entertain and enlighten the world around them through amazing viewing experiences.

The Direct to Consumer Group is a technology company within the Discovery brand. We are building a global streaming video platform (OTT), and a suite of applications to support all of our networks brands globally. We are building modern container-based micro-services operated on AWS. Our platform covers everything from search, catalogue, video transcoding, personalization, to global subscriptions, and really much more. We build user experiences ranging from classic lean-back viewing to interactive learning applications. We build for connected TVs, web, mobile phones, tablets, and consoles for a large footprint of Discovery owned networks (Discovery, Food Network, Golf TV, MotorTrend, Eurosport, Discovery Play, and many more) This is a growing, global engineering group crucial to Discoverys future.

Responsibilities

We are hiring a software development engineer to join our team.

• 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 teams strategy and contribute significantly to team planning.
• You show good judgement 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.

Qualifications

• 5+ years industry experience as a Software Engineer in an agile environment
• Experience developing high-throughput backend services scaling to 10s of millions of users in real-time and on-demand transactions in server-server and client-server applications
• Hands-on experience designing and developing distributed, asynchronous services involving many components and using popular tech stacks and design patterns
• BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• Must have the legal right to work in the United States.

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