Principal Software Engineer, Development COE
Englewood Cliffs, NJ

Job Description

Responsibilities

The Principal Software Engineer in the Custom Development Center of Excellence will create new apps and services for NBCUniversal while helping to formalize development procedures, operations, and platform strategy. This position is based in Englewood Cliffs, NJ.

Responsibilities

* Work in an agile software development team create new apps and services from scratch and expand upon those created by other team members.
* Act as a lead, identifying and assigning new work for other engineers.
* Test and create automated tests for your code, ensuring every function, service, and object is compatible with your team's work and with the many systems within the NBCUniversal system portfolio.
* Act as a development leader, help to formulate best practices and setting up toolsets and procedures for the team, leveraging internally available tools and communicating with other internal development & product teams.
* Stay up-to-date on new development and platform technologies, make recommendations for the right tool for the job, and take the lead in setting up those tools and training other developers on them.
* Create documentation for developers as well as business users to help them understand your products.
* Maintain cloud-based platforms and environments of supported applications, troubleshooting and patching functional issues and data issues in lower or production environments when necessary.

Qualifications/Requirements

* Minimum 7 years of experience in Java and JavaScript.
* Comfortable working with a variety of languages and technologies on both the front- and backend, including but not limited to Java, JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5, relational database administration, git, and Unix administration.
* Competent working with service-based application architectures and familiar with various API protocols.
* Experience working in story and task-tracking tools for agile workflows.
* Experience setting up continuous integration and testing frameworks for development projects (IE Jenkins, Chef, Mocha.js, etc.)
* Demonstrated ability to think critically about problems, decipher user preferences versus hard requirements, and effectively use online and onsite resources to find an appropriate solution with little intervention.
* Passionate about writing clear, maintainable code that will be used and modified by others, and able to use and modify other developers' work rather than recreate it

Desired Characteristics

* Bachelor's degree required; Computer Science/Engineering or related field strongly preferred.
* Hands-on experience managing distributed systems and clusters
* Experience with Docker and container orchestration tools, cloudfoundry and serverless technologies, and distributed messaging services (preferably Kafka).
* Able to communicate effectively in a diverse team of varying skillsets and proficiencies, including the ability to relate complex information and business process needs to both technical and non-technical audiences.
* Experience working in large, multifaceted and matrixed organizations (media entertainment industry preferred).
* Ability to influence internal and external team members without direct reporting authority