Company Description
NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media & entertainment companies in the development, production, & marketing of entertainment, news, & information to a global audience.
As a company, we embrace the power of difference. Our team is committed to creating an organization that champions diversity & inclusivity for all by curating content & a workforce that represents the world around us. We continue to challenge ourselves & the industry by being customer-centric, data-driven creatures of innovation. At NBCUniversal, we are determined to forge the next frontier of streaming through creativity, teamwork, & talent.
Here you can fly to new heights!
Job Description
We are seeking a Sr. Software Engineer to join the Scheduling Engineering team as a full-stack developer on an agile software engineering team. This team creates and maintains cloud-based applications focused on a microservices architecture critical to NBCUniversal. The Scheduling Engineering team sits in the Video Platforms organization and empowers content programming across NBCU's digital and linear platforms, creating a world-class scheduling product that enables NBCU brands to pivot from traditional broadcast to Direct-to-Consumer. We are creating a unique engineering culture within NBCUniversal, which is an excellent opportunity to play a critical role in making that happen.
Responsibilities

• Write clean, concise, readable, state-of-the-art code that follows common design patterns while adhering to the best engineering practices
• Strive to constantly improve the quality of engineering through code reviews, tech talks, pair programming & other collaborative practices
• Understand business needs & design quality software solutions that work well with the current architecture
• Work with others on pushing technical boundaries & contribute to new processes & technologies
• Ensure quality & confidence in software by writing effective automated unit tests

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript & relevant JavaScript design patterns, with working knowledge of Angular or React framework & Typescript
• Solid understanding of parallel processing, data structures, and algorithms
• Solid understanding and experience with Java Spring Boot/REST Microservices
• Ability to design and implement from start to finish for two or more services
• Must have experience developing microservice applications and should be able to create services that can scale
• Experience with at least one relational database (table design, queries, stored procedures)
• Ability to decide when to use relational vs. NoSQL databases and must have experience with at least one of the relational databases (Microsoft SQL, mySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Ownership of services - design, development, testing, build, deployment, and handling production issues.
• Experience in CI/CD and Cloud technologies
• Must be an effective communicator, team player, and mentor junior developers

Desired Characteristics

• Hands-on experience and knowledge of AWS, and Serverless functions and frameworks
• Experience writing CloudFormation scripts (or Terraform)
• Experience with container services (Docker, Kubernetes)

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: $110,000 - $155,000.
Additional Information
NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. NBCUniversal will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative For Hiring Ordinance, where applicable.
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