Discovery, Inc.

Software Development Engineer II

Posted on: 14 Dec 2021

Bellevue, Washington

Job Description

Responsibilities
 

We are hiring a software development engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate has a track record of having built multiple high-performance, stable, scalable systems that have been successfully shipped to customers in production. Your work and your approach to work are exemplary: you drive best practices and set standards for your team.  You are a key influencer in your team’s strategy and contribute significantly to team planning. You show good judgement making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs.  You are a collaborative leader that makes other engineers and team members around you more productive, by sharing your knowledge, and helping to tie-break key technical decisions. 


Qualifications
 

5+ years industry experience as a Software Engineer in an agile environment
Experience developing high-throughput backend services scaling to 10’s of millions of users in real-time and on-demand transactions in server-server and client-server applications
Hands-on experience designing and developing distributed, asynchronous services involving many components and using popular tech stacks and design patterns
BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
Must have the legal right to work in the United States.

Discovery, Inc.

New York, New York

Discovery, Inc. (formerly Discovery Communications) is an American mass media company based in New York City. Established in 1985, the company is best known with its non-scripted and factual television channels, such as the namesake Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Science Channel, TLC, HGTV, Travel Channel, Food Network, Cooking Channel, and DIY Network. It also expanded to digital business, such as Group Nine Media (35%) and media properties for golf enthusiasts under the Golf Digest and GolfTV brands.

Discovery also owns or has interests in local versions of its channel brands in international markets, in addition to its other major regional operations such as Eurosport (a pan-European group of sports channels), Discovery Communications Nordic (which operates general-interest channels in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland), TVN Group in Poland, Lionsgate, an American-Canadian movie studio, and a portfolio of various free-to-air channels in Germany and Italy, and the UK such as DMAX and Real Time.

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