Within IT Digital Channels, Sky Italia, the first Italian media company and the European leader in entertainment, is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer who can translate passion for software into concrete value for our customers.
Senior Backend Software Engineer
We believe that day by day improvements, delivering the best customer experience, proactively solving customer problems, are made possible by great people.
As a member of Sky, the candidate will work in a complex, challenging, and exciting enterprise level environment with a strong commitment towards results and collaboration.
The Senior Backend Software Engineer will be primarily responsible for coordinating and overseeing the development, enhancement, and maintenance of Digital Products, ensuring alignment with business needs. This role will focus on providing strong technical leadership and guidance, fostering collaboration across teams, including external vendors and offshore resources, in alignment with architectural standards and best practices.
Key Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the architectural definition and implementation, ensuring technical consistency and guiding backend software engineers within the squad to adhere to design principles and standards
- Develop, enhance, and maintain core backend components of the Digital Product landscape, while performing code reviews and providing strong technical coordination
- Coordinate and oversee development activities, ensuring quality, and compliance with SDLC best practices, while actively collaborating with all other engineers.
- Interact with the business stakeholders to understand the business needs and translate them in technical stories
- Promote innovation initiatives by exploring and evaluating new technologies, creating prototypes and proof-of-concepts, and mentoring external teams to adopt innovative solutions effectively.
Core competencies and qualifications:
- Solid software engineering expertise and hands-on experience with Java, and/or Typescript, Python
- Experience with Spring/SpringBoot and/or Nodejs
- Proven ability to design and implement microservices architectures and domain-driven design (DDD) principles
- Solid understanding of API design, integration patterns, and scalability best practices.
- Experience in unit and integration tests frameworks (JUnit, Mocha, Jest...)
- Track record of developing scalable and performant web services/applications in real-world environments
- Good awareness of best modern practices on software development lifecycle
- Experience in designing, developing, and deploying Cloud-based solutions (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- Excellent communication and coordination skills to work with distributed teams and external vendors.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing
Bonus points
- Ability to adapt to changing contexts, including learning new programming languages and frameworks quickly
- Familiarity with Backend for Frontend (BFF) patterns
- Strong interest in exploring AI technologies and agentic AI applications, positioning oneself as a key contributor in identifying and shaping potential use cases within Sky’s digital ecosystem.
- Product-oriented mindset, committed to creating exceptional customer experiences
- Good knowledge of Agile methodologies and experience working in Scrum or Kanban environments
- Experience with NoSQL databases
Soft skills
- Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills, fostering trust and effective collaboration across internal teams and external partners.
- Team leadership and coordination abilities, promoting a culture of accountability and shared success.
- Proactive and adaptable mindset, committed to developing a “can-do” culture and driving results in dynamic, fast-paced environments.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, in Italian and English (mandatory)
- Problem-solving and decision-making aptitude, ensuring timely and effective resolutions while maintaining high-quality standards.
Top Skills
What We Do
Sky is one of Europe’s leading media and entertainment companies and is part of Comcast Corporation, a global media and technology company that connects people to moments and experiences that matter. At Sky, we Believe in Better. It’s in our DNA.
We’re famous for innovation. We offer the world’s smartest TV, Sky Glass; our plug and play streaming puck, Sky Stream; the best aggregation platform, Sky Q; and streaming services NOW and WOW. We provide connectivity you can count on in mobile, fast, secure, reliable residential and business broadband, as well as smart home protection through Sky Protect.
We’re Europe’s premium content producer. We create award-winning original content, produce the biggest live sporting events, and we provide free access to news and the arts.
We believe that we can have a positive impact on society, by supporting and creating tens of thousands of jobs, addressing digital inequality, being a diverse and inclusive employer, and becoming net zero carbon by 2030.
