JOB SUMMARY
As a Software Engineer, you will collaborate with engineers, project managers, and product managers to find the best solution for our viewers. Your code is easy to read, well-tested, and applies best practices. Your documentation is clear and concise. You value good-faith collaboration and having excellent relationships with our partner teams. If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you!
Responsibilities

• Actively participate in daily stand-ups and other scrum ceremonies.
• Collaborate with team members to design new solutions and drive alignment across partner teams.
• Participate in the breakdown and estimation of tasks.
• Communicate with team members on progress.
• Write code to implement new features or optimize existing services.
• Test code through various means: unit tests, integration tests, performance tests, etc.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation for our tier-1 critical services facing millions of users worldwide.
• Follow industrial standard processes for service operations regarding CI/CD, monitoring, and investigation of incidents.
• Perform code reviews for members of the team.

Basic qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years related experience crafting and operating backend services.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
• Able to design backend architectures.
• Knowledge of caching technologies.
• Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, databases, etc). Strong understanding of design patterns and principles.
• Knowledge of asynchronous programming.
• Demonstrated knowledge of object-oriented programming patterns.
• Knowledge of source control systems and CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of AGILE/Scrum practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred qualifications

• Demonstrated knowledge of crafting and operating large-scale, high-availability backend services.
• Demonstrated knowledge crafting and operating JVM services.
• Experience with messaging technologies (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, SQS, etc.)
• Experience with functional programming patterns.
• Experience operating within a Public Cloud Provider (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
• Experience with observability tools for metrics, logging, and monitoring (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, Grafana)

The hiring range for this position is $107,256 to $165,440 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.