Role currently : Software Development Engineer IV - Java Front End
Location: Seattle, WA 5x/week
Full Time or W2 Employment
Client work - The Content Delivery Experience Tooling team is responsible for building out several critical applications that enable self-service management of the Max, Discovery Plus and other applications that WBD operate. The team owns the CMS frontend, Content Promotion tooling and Content Catalog tooling.
This specific role is for the Content Tooling team that own several backend services that enable the entire WBD Content Catalog to be consumed and queries in very flexible ways. The project uses ElasticSearch and Aurora and is built in Java. We are looking for a strong backend engineer that is going to be able to evaluate and evolve the platform to the next level so that the team can rapidly innovate.
Job Responsibilities / Typical Day in the Role
- Build out a long-term vision for the application and work with others on the team to deliver projects.
- Contribute to projects on the team.
- Mentor junior engineers.
Must Have Skills / Requirements
- ElasticSearch Experience
- Optimizing WBD’s indexing pipeline and query service for the content metadata application.
- Database Technologies
- DynamoDB, RDS, and general data modeling – Want this candidate to be able to bring their experience and help figure out the best practice in optimizing ingestions and querying.
- Java Experience
- All backend services developed in Java (some are in Kotlin). Want to see data modeling, database technology knowledge, and API development.
Nice to Have Skills / Preferred Requirements
- Frontend React Development.
- Kotlin experience.
Soft Skills/Preferred Background
- Databases
- Modeling Data
- Complex queries of Data
Education / Certifications
- CS fundamentals
Interview Process / Next Steps
- 2 rounds.
- 1st over phone for culture fit/background screening – HM.
- 2nd round coding technical interview – HM and colleague.
Additional Notes
- Sourcing out of Seattle
- Hybrid – in-office Mon. and Wed.
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