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Job Description
NBC News Digital is creating the digital future for one of the world's best-known and most-trusted news organizations. Our Digital Technology organization is at the center of building and improving a suite of digital products including user experiences across web, mobile apps, OTT devices, storytelling tools including CMS and curation systems, and a platform to distribute that content to hundreds of millions of users. Our brands include NBC News, Today, MSNBC, CNBC, E! News, and Telemundo Noticias.
Position Overview
This is an opportunity to play a critical role in the digital evolution of the NBC News Group, specifically supporting the central elections processing and distribution system for ALL platforms of the NBC Newsgroup - Digital, Broadcast and Social.
As a Senior Software Engineer in server-side technologies, you will partner with the Product, Operations, Design, and Editorial teams to bring NBC content to life. You will be a significant influence on our product roadmap, bringing a technical and strategic perspective. You will work alongside fellow inspired developers in a fast-paced environment using technologies like Golang, Java, GraphQL, Kafka, MongoDB, Oracle, MySQL etc to help shape the future of digital news.
This role will report into the Manager of Election Data Engineering.
Responsibilities

• Extensive experience in designing and implementing Real time and mission-critical Data Systems which consume Data from multiple providers.
• Experience working with message queues and event processing streaming systems designed for data distribution and consumption.
• Extensive knowledge in implementing microservices using multiple tech stacks leveraging various Programming languages
• Experience in software development which encourages TDD Practices to build high quality understandable and maintainable code.
• Debug distributed systems effectively for reported issues with the help of infrastructure teams
• Communicates effectively with non-technical peers & stake holders.
• Gives timely, helpful feedback to technical leads, product owners and scrum masters
• Able to suggest improvements to technology and tools and investigate implementations.

Qualifications

• Hands-on expert in Java with 7+ years of experience.
• expert knowledge on building applications which offers API for Clients using various Architectural styles like REST, GraphQL, Web Socket Subscriptions, GRPC.
• Expert in analyzing and consuming data from SQL ad NOSQL Database management systems preferably Oracle, MySQL, Redis and MongoDB
• Experience in building distributed and multi-threaded applications by leveraging industry standard concurrency design patterns and frameworks.
• Experience building large scale enterprise web applications using Spring Boot Web Frameworks and go lang with any web framework.
• Demonstrable experience in Engineering best practices like Code Reviews, Code Re-factoring, Security audits, Performance tuning, building Operational tools and troubleshooting.
• Experience in working with infrastructure teams on Product Releases, CI/CD, Git Workflows, Build tools.

Bonus Points

• Passion for Elections in the US
• Open-source projects contributions
• Deeper understanding of Modern Java anything above JDK 11
• Knowledge of the Go programming paradigms and idioms
• Exposure to Building, deploying, and debugging on AWS
• Demonstrable experience on capacity planning, designing for failover, fault-tolerance, and disaster recovery

Flexibility

• We are hiring with remote flexibility in New York, NY

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $155,000 - $175,000.
Additional Information
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