Sr Software Engineer - Core Services
Discovery Communications
New York, NYThis was removed by the employer on 7/11/2019 1:32:00 PM PST
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Discovery Digital Media is looking for a Software Engineer to work within our Core Services team implementing APIs and other Services that support a variety of client platforms. This is a fantastic opportunity to help solve complex but interesting scalability, performance and resiliency problems for products consumed by millions of users each day! You will have the opportunity to work with a suite of great technologies and in a highly collaborative environment.
Responsibilities
1. Work closely with a team of very talented Software Engineers to design, develop and support APIs and other server side applications
2. Write clean, well-documented code for a range of digital products and services
3. Implement software components and features consumed by millions of people
4. Influence technical architecture to enable scalable and extensible solutions
5. Work closely with other developers, operations, design, product, PM and QA to gather requirements for new API resources that, when implemented, will enable new features in our clients and services
6. Writing unit tests and end-to-end tests, against your code, to be used in our CI workflow
7. Assist with evaluating 3rd party services and provide recommendations on when it’s more strategic for us to build versus buy
8. Participate in peer code reviews, provide and handle constructive feedback, and develop team knowledge
Requirements
* BS or MS degree in Computer Science or a related technical experience
* Experience with server-side web frameworks
* Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g., unit testing, design patterns, building maintainable code, performance)
* Experience with both relational and non-relational database
* Experience with implementing software in at least one modern programming language such as PHP, Python or GoLang
* Knowledgeable with REST API design, implementation and documentation
* Knowledgeable with 3rd party API consumption, both client- and server-side
* Excellent communication skills in both verbal and written English
* Able to work in teams, contribute ideas and share knowledge proactively
* Self-motivated and unafraid to dive into detailed technical issues
* Religious about clean solutions to software problems
* Must have the legal right to work in the United States
New York, NY