Software Development Manager
Discovery Communications
Bellevue, WAThis was removed by the employer on 5/11/2020 11:31:00 AM PST
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Full Time Job
Software Development Manager III
We are looking for talented Director of Engineering to lead the development and deployment of a search platform to power Food Network, HGTV, Magnolia, and many other Discovery brands. Discovery’s content powers a number of digital customer experiences such as Food Network Kitchen and our Alexa voice skills.
Successful candidates will have an established background developing search services (e.g. SOLR, Elastic Search, Lucene, Algolia), search algorithms, natural language processing, and metadata extraction. Experience developing REST services at scale is a must. Successful candidates will have strong technical ability, great communication skills, great analytical reasoning skills, and, of course, a passion for Discovery’s brands.
Responsibilities
1. Will collaborate closely with various product development teams to ingest content and implement customer search experiences.
2. Will help make content discoverable for our customer and will be a key enabler in creating rich customer experiences.
Requirements
* 3 years experience with search platforms: SOLR, Elastic Search, Lucene, Algolia
* 5 years experience developing REST APIs using a modern framework such as Express, Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, etc
* 5 years experience using Node, Java, Python, or other similar language
* 2 years experience using AWS managed services such as Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, Kinesis, API Gateway, etc
* 5 years leading and managing a software engineering team (providing coaching, mentoring, setting goals, and recruiting talent)
* Experience implementing modern DevOps/SRE practices such as continuous deployment, performance monitoring, incident management, and chaos engineering
* Experience scaling a search platform to support over 1000 TPS
* Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between
* Degree in Computer Science or related field
* Ability to communicate and influence at all levels, from the new college hire engineer to an executive audience
* Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design
* Computer Science fundamentals in data structures and big data systems
* Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
* Must have the legal right to work in the United States
Bellevue, BLV, Washington, WA, Seattle