Software Engineer (Sports Experiences)

Make your mark at Comcast -- a Fortune 30 global media and technology company. From the connectivity and platforms we provide, to the content and experiences we create, we reach hundreds of millions of customers, viewers, and guests worldwide. Become part of our award-winning technology team that turns big ideas into cutting-edge products, platforms, and solutions that our customers love. We create space to innovate, and we recognize, reward, and invest in your ideas, while ensuring you can proudly bring your authentic self to the workplace. Join us. You’ll do the best work of your career right here at Comcast. (In most cases, Comcast prefers to have employees on-site collaborating unless the team has been designated as virtual due to the nature of their work. If a position is listed with both office locations and virtual offerings, Comcast may be willing to consider candidates who live greater than 100 miles from the office for the remote option.)

Job Summary

Comcast’s Technology, Product & Experience (TPX) organization works at the intersection of media and technology. Our innovative teams are continually developing and delivering products that transform the customer experience. The Integrated Engagement Experiences (IEE) team in TPX focuses on delivering interactive sports entertainment experiences to our TV video product customers.
Sports entertainment is the epitome of reality TV. The live nature of sports entertainment creates unique opportunities to deliver engaging customer experiences combining media, technology, and art. The cyclical nature of sports leagues seasons and competitions provides an exciting environment of short-/mid-/long-term efforts. The IEE team sits at the cusp of integrating new technologies, patterns, & products to engage our customers in the sports entertainment landscape of our video products.
Are you passionate about sports? Are you passionate about digital media, entertainment experiences, & software development? Do you like solving challenging problems and working within a highly motivated team environment melding ideas, skills, & talents delivering solutions?
A Full Stack Developer is responsible for end-to-end ownership of projects across the entire stack. Build products with web frameworks, APIs, databases, and multiple backend languages. Solve challenges that impact both the Front-End and Backend architecture, while delivering global customer experiences.
There is never a dull moment working in sports entertainment. Our team continuously delivers to the challenges of sports entertainment experiences to increase the value delivered to our customers. Each sport product experience is designed to evolve across sports, leagues, partners, & platforms. Each sport, league, partner, & platform introduce different combinations of components, patterns, processes & interfaces. These combinations inherently introduce technical challenges in UX, feature functionality, system integration complexity, operation & scale. In this role, you’ll be working in a fast-paced delivery environment delivering new immersive sports experiences for our video products.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities

• Work with engineering team, product, and UX to understand new requirements.
• Refine and estimate new deliverables.
• Implement new APIs, backend services, Front-End UI components, and automation tasks to specification provided with the assistance of senior team members.
• Understand platform usage and assist with production deployments and customer issue triage.
• Work with engineering team to develop backend applications that can be hosted on Cloud Platforms.
• Design and develop web applications that can function with function during backend service and internet connectivity interruptions.
• Develop security features as part of the development and embrace the DevSecOps culture.
• Use tools to identify and mitigate production incidents within the defined MTTR (Mean Time To Recover) KPI.
• Create re-usable web components that can be leveraged by multiple teams, if needed.
• Create self-contained microservices or APIs to support the business logic.
• Use content management systems as applicable and global design patterns & defined coding standards and practices established by the team.
• Work closely with the architects and DevOps Engineers to implement the functional and technical requirements.
• Create dashboards to track business and operational metrics.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Employees at all levels are expected to:

• Front-End Programming (React, Javascript, HTML/CSS, Lightning.js)
• Back-End Programming (Python, Node.js, Express.js, Java, C, C++)
• UI/UX Design (Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, Balsamiq)
• Software/Solution Design (Use Cases, Sequence Diagramming, Process Flow)
• Development Tools (Github, Visual Studio, IntelliJ)
• DevOps (CICD, AWS, ELK)
• Preferred Majors: Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering Technology

Minimum Qualifications and Eligibility Requirements

• BS in preferred majors
• 3+ years’ experience in software development
• Authorized to work in the United States with no current or future sponsorship needs
• Available to report in-person to the work location on the job posting (unless virtual offering)
• Comcast is an Affirmative Action/EEO employer M/F/D/V

Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
Drive results and growth.
Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.
Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.
Disclaimer:
This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Skills

Back-End Development, Business Logic, Design, JavaScript, Software Development, User Experience (UX), User Interfaces (UI)

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Education

Bachelor's Degree (Required)

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Certifications (if applicable)

Relative Work Experience

2-5 Years

Comcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.