Senior Software Engineer || Backend Developer

• Develop and enhance our flagship Video, Audio, Automotive and Sports metadata software solutions.
• Design applications with a Platform-first mentality where scale, consistency and reliability are at the core of every decision.
• Evaluate, contribute to, and leverage open source technologies including Kubernetes, Trino, Spark, Airflow, Prometheus + friends, ELK, Jupyter, and more in order to create and enhance our internal SaaS/PaaS platforms.
• Design software with a Product-owner mentality: your software is the product and as such you own the product as much as any business person does.
• Work within small, highly configurable teams to deliver software in rapid increments using an iterative approach.
• Develop applications to catalog and power the world s largest entertainment metadata repository across the Video, Audio, Automotive and Sports verticals.
• Interact with Product, Editorial and Client Experience teams to constantly refine the Gracenote offering.

Role Requirements:

• Passionate about software development
• 6+ years of work experience with Java programming language
• Experience in team handling and mentoring
• A solid grasp of computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, memory management and distributed systems
• Competency in SQL and scripting in bash or some other scripting language
• Experience with Unix/Linux based platforms.
• A degree in computer science, engineering, math or related fields