Senior Software Engineer (14141079)

Job Description

City: Bristol, CT

Duration:18 months

Rate Range: $92.5/hr on W2 depending on experience (no C2C or 1099 or sub-contract)

Work Authorization: GC, USC, All valid EADs except H1b

Job Summary:

As a member of the Core Experience Delivery team, you will design, build, and support the APIs behind our sports platform, the content that delivers the great storytelling content to all our products, the taxonomy systems used to classify all our data and content, and have a direct impact to many products. As a senior software engineer you will be responsible for extensible solutions, at scale, and advancing our platform onto modern frameworks and technologies. You will interact with numerous teams to drive requirements and provide a strong foundation for the many products enhancing our fan experiences. We are looking for a passionate, impactful technologist who seeks to bring the best out in themselves and those around them. Someone who can provide a fresh perspective and innovative insight to our initiatives.

You'll make a great fit for our team if you like to do these things:• Collaborate with product managers and fellow engineers in the design and implementation of systems delivering high throughput experiences.• Contribute to, and sometimes lead cross-team architecture discussions.• Efficiently operate mission-critical cloud-based services, with an emphasis in reliability, security, and performance• Analyze and resolve complex engineering problems involving high trafficked web and mobile application services and APIs.• Design data models and build scalable backend services that interact with frontend clients and applications.• Interface with a variety of stakeholders to define requirements and project timelines.• Work with the team to iteratively improve development practices and processes.• Help with full-stack development when needed.• Research and experiment with the latest and greatest technologies to identify, evangelize, and apply them to current and future projects.

Perform code reviews and guide the technical direction of the team.

Basic Qualifications• 4+ years of relevant industry experience• Demonstrated proficiency in developing high volume, cached, fault tolerant, multi-threaded scalable systems.• 4+ Years Experience with exposure to full lifecycle of application development, including best practices of unit testing, code reviews, documentation, etc.• • Demonstrated ability to work on a diverse scope of software and database projects requiring detailed analysis, creative/practical problem solving. Strong analytical skills as well as solid capabilities for debugging and troubleshooting.• Proven experience with strong communication skills and attention to detail

Experience with cloud-based technologies such as AWS EC2, ECS, SQS, S3, Lambda, CloudFormation, etc.

Proven Experience with Java and open-source technologies like Spring, Tomcat, MySQL, Kafka, Elastic Search, etc.

Minimum and Preferred. Inclusive of Licenses/Certs (include functional experience as well as behavioral attributes and/or leadership capabilities)

Motivated self-starter with the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

Summarize job responsibilities, core deliverables and major duties. What is required for the position to exist?

-Focus on major areas of work, typically 20% or more of role % of Time• Participate in the design and implementation of multi-layered systems delivering high throughput consumer facing experiences 50%• Collaborate & troubleshoot with the rest of the team in the analysis and resolution of hard engineering problems involving high trafficked web application services and API's. Oversee service performance, scalability, and event planning requirements 25%• Provide guidance and enforcement of development practices and processes. Review code and work with junior engineers to ensure product and design specifications are met 15%• Research, learn, and evangelize widespread adoption of new technologies and architecture patterns. Influence and contribute to department technical strategy and planning. 10%