Platform Development Lead

OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY

Fox TV Stations

FOX Television Stations owns and operates 29 full power broadcast television stations in the U.S. These include stations located in 14 of the top 15 largest designated market areas, or DMAs, and duopolies in 11 DMAs, including the three largest DMAs (New York, Los Angeles and Chicago). Of these stations, 18 are affiliated with the FOX Network. In addition to distributing sports, entertainment and syndicated content, our television stations collectively produce approximately 1,200 hours of local news every week. These stations leverage viewer, distributor and advertiser demand for the FOX Network’s national content.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Platform Development Lead role offers compelling technical challenges to build and enhance backend services delivering business capabilities to frontend teams across web, mobile, and connectedTV and an opportunity to lead a newly defined and talented team. This role will influence strategic engineering direction as we take Locals News to exciting spaces.

As the team lead, you are responsible for the platform development squad. You will support your team members, provide them with opportunities to develop their career, and write code alongside them. You are an expert problem solver and he go-to person to address roadblocks, conflicts, and miscommunication. You will maintain engineering quality, track team productivity, and control the pace of software development to meet business goals.

You will understand in great detail how FTS systems work and interact with other internal systems at FOX and develop solutions with your team to help FTS meet its digital business goals.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate with platform developers, frontend development teams, QA, product managers, and delivery managers to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain the FTS backend services with the highest quality standards

• Maintain high standards of software quality within the platform team by establishing best practices and habits

• Proactively pursue sources of requirements to document technical details and dependencies to tee up work for the team

• Advocate for solutions that take quality, app performance, backwards compatibility, tech debt and development resources into strict consideration

• Document design specifications in Confluence including diagrams where needed to adequately convert the full scope of the solution design

• Create mock responses in Postman to allow front-end teams to work on features in parallel with backend development of services

• Maintain the health and fidelity of the FTS backend services by advocating for and executing code improvements and paying off technical debt

• Provide technical leadership to teammates through peer review, coaching and mentorship

• Prepare reports, manuals and other documentation on the status, operation and maintenance of software

• Design, develop, and unit test backend services in accordance with established standards and industry best practices

• Package and support deployment of builds and releases

• Assess opportunities for software and process improvements and prepare documentation to share with team members and other affected parties

• Actively participate and prepare for sprint ceremonies, quarterly planning, meetings, discussions, and work sessions with both the development team and engineering leadershi

• Work closely with delivery managers, QA, product managers, and Fox Technology teams to manage the delivery of technical solutions from requirements analysis through design and delivery

• Take responsibility for ensuring that technical risks and issues are identified and managed closely

• Address team issues quickly and directly, particularly when it comes to personnel or non-engineering related issues

• Work with the Director of Engineering in enabling an effective and efficient software engineering operation

• Other duties as deemed necessary and appropriate.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Strong proficiency in Golang programming language, including knowledge of Goroutines, channels, and error handling

• Familiarity with containerization technologies like Kubernetes

• Comfortable with developer tools including Postman, Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Datadog

• In-depth knowledge of RESTful API design principles and practices

• Demonstrable problem-solving skills

• Professional experience leading development teams

• Detail-oriented and strong work ethic

• Clear and thoughtful communication

• Thrive on collaboration

DESIRED:

• Have an eagerness to learn new things

• Experience working within a mixed engineering organizations including local, remote, and vendor resources

• Experience using agile methodologies for software development

• Competency in Terraform for provisioning and managing infrastructure

• Solid working knowledge of cloud infrastructure, distributed computing, and microservices

• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and CloudFormation

About FTS Digital: FOX Television Stations (FTS) Digital, the digital arm of one of the nation's largest owned & operated TV station groups, is
committed to being the digital leader in Live, News and Sports. We invest in the very best people, technology and ideas, and we’re here to drive
transformation of traditional media to exciting heights. We’re looking for creative, innovative leaders who are passionate about digital and crave a
challenge. We’re all in. Are you? Let’s go!

EOE/M/F/Veteran/Disabled

Federal law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans.  Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job.  Examples of a reasonable accommodation include making a change to the application process or work procedures, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.  Please send an email to [email protected] or call (212) 301-5853, or visit our readily accessible office located at 1999 S. Bundy Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90025, and a member of our recruiting team will assist you.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.

Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay rate/range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is $170,000.00-200,000.00 annually for high cost labour markets such as but not limited to New York City and Los Angeles, $141,600.00-166,600.00 annually for all other US locations. This role is also eligible for various benefits, including medical/dental/vision, insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off, and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents. Benefits for Union represented employees will be in accordance with the applicable collective bargaining agreement.

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