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Sr. API Developer
NBC Universal
Seattle, WA, United States
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About Us
NBCUniversal is one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. NBCUniversal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, and world-renowned theme parks. 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.
Responsibilities
Are you a S.O.L.I.D. developer who enjoys things like iterative development, micro-service based architecture, API design, clean content models, innovative solutions and working at scale? If yes, we have an exciting opportunity for you!
The Core Platform team at NBC News Digital designs, builds and supports API’s, platform services and content creation/curation tools that power multiple web, mobile and connected TV apps across world-class news brands like TODAY, NBC News and MSNBC. We are a highly collaborative team that emphasizes a culture of respect, individual growth and shared innovation. We are focused on delivering high quality solutions and strive to be trusted partners to our internal, external and business stake holders. We move fast – and we’re not afraid to break things!
• Design, implement, test, and maintain API’s and services that power NBC News Group’s digital properties and the internal systems used to create them.
• Collaborate with Project Managers, Software Engineers and Designers on projects with clear business impact and high public visibility
• Engage in team work and collaboration
◦ Actively participate in design discussions and code reviews
◦ Eager to learn new things and share ideas with peers
• Be comfortable with Agile software development
◦ Participate in Scrums, iterations, planning, estimating and retrospectives
• Have knowledge and experience with software development lifecycles
◦ Design simple, elegant and extensible architecture
◦ Deliver performant solutions capable of handling large traffic loads
◦ Validate and tests code deliverables
◦ Include Unit Testing as part of standard development process
◦ Conscientiously involved in the deployment and maintenance of applications
◦ Debug and troubleshoots issues efficiently
◦ Advocate for and follow best practices
• Possess a high degree of proficiency with one or more strongly-typed modern development languages such as Golang, Java, C#, etc.
• Demonstrate strong familiarity with interpreted languages like Javascript, PHP, Python, Ruby, etc.
• Work with limited supervision and technical guidance; exercise creativity
Qualifications/Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or related area, with 5+ years of experience
• In lieu of Bachelor’s degree, extensive coding skills, web development experience and familiarity with the field's concepts, practices and procedures is required.
• Expertise in software engineering principles as outlined above
• Strong understanding of Service Oriented Architecture and/or RESTful APIs
• Extensive experience developing in Java with Spring utilizing Aspect-Oriented Programming paradigms
• Understanding of what requirements and features go into a scalable product
• Awareness of HTTP concepts, protocols, web servers and services
• Experience participating in a project team with 3+ people.
• Experience on a public, large-scale web site
• Pursue work with enthusiasm, drive and a strong sense of accomplishment