Staff Software Engineer - Backend (Adtech Team)

2 Months ago • 9-13 Years • Backend Development • Full Stack Development

Job Summary

Job Description

The Staff Software Engineer - Backend (Adtech Team) in Pune plays a key role in designing and developing major functional changes to existing or new software systems. Responsibilities include building microservices, event-driven architectures, and optimizing content monetization. The ideal candidate possesses 9-13 years of Java development experience, expertise in backend software development, and a strong understanding of data structures and algorithms. They will collaborate with the team, drive best practices, mentor junior engineers, and troubleshoot production issues. The role requires proficiency in various technologies, including AWS services, Docker, Kubernetes, and several database technologies (SQL and NoSQL).
Must have:
  • 9-13 years Java development experience
  • Backend software development expertise
  • Microservices and event-driven architecture experience
  • Proficient in AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
  • SQL and NoSQL database knowledge
Perks:
  • Great Place to work
  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Fast track growth opportunities

Job Details

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Staff  Software Engineer -Backend (Adtech Team), Pune
About Warner Bros. Discovery:
Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands, and franchises across television, film, streaming, and gaming. The new company combines Warner Media’s premium entertainment, sports, and news assets with Warner Bros Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses. For more information, please visit www.wbd.com
Meet Our Team:
Our Advertising Technology team is on a mission to revolutionize the advertising landscape by delivering a cutting-edge, global ad platform. Our focus is on optimizing content monetization and enhancing user experiences across various platforms. We specialize in delivering video ads for both on-demand and live streams, catering to a wide range of direct-to-consumer services as well as non-owned-and-operated third-party and vMVPD platforms.
Roles & Responsibilities:
  • You play a leading role in designing and developing major functional changes to existing software systems, or new ones, involving yourself and other engineers. You make good decisions when to build new and when to extend existing. You are known for your subject matter expertise.
  • Your work and your approach to work are exemplary: you drive best practices and set standards for your team. You can propose and create best practices proactively where none exists.
  • You write high-quality, maintainable, and robust code. You may have experience in more than one language and understand the fundamentals of software engineering well enough to learn new languages and frameworks when the need arises.
  • You understand a broad range of data structures, algorithms design, and know how, when and when not to use them. You can evaluate run-time performance and understand how to trade off performance using a variety of algorithm and data structure approaches.
  • You are comfortable advising others through code reviews, design reviews, and feedback on operational excellence. You are also comfortable receiving feedback and using it to grow as an engineer. You recognize that good ideas can come from anywhere, and work to make all your peers feel included and heard. You deliver facts and decisions with empathy and transparency to bring others along with you.
  • You are a key influencer in your team’s strategy and contribute significantly to team planning. You show good judgment in 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. You provide mentoring to other engineers and your success is judged as much on your own productivity as on the positive impact you have on engineers around you.
  • You can troubleshoot a production issue by reviewing source code, logs, operational metrics, stack trace, etc. to pinpoint a specific problem and then resolve it. You can identify root causes and identify learnings to improve both development processes and system design.
  • Be passionate about growing a team - hire and mentor engineers
What to Bring:
  • 9 - 13 years of experience developing solutions proficiently in Java.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent technical experience.
  • Experience in backend software development, building microservices, and event-driven architectures/solutions.
  • Knowledge and experience of design patterns.
  • Demonstrated ability to use standard industry tools for software development, including but not limited to IDEs, build and continuous integration, source control management, code review tools, data storage services, and cloud infrastructure, and you are able to build software in a professional team environment delivered to production using these tools.
  • Familiarity with a range of database technologies, encompassing both SQL and NoSQL options, including DynamoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, and Postgres Aurora.
  • Usage and good understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS services
  • Experience building, operating, and owning services. Implementing operational excellence mechanisms, including alerting, metrics, and logging using Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana, PagerDuty
  • Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g., unit testing, design patterns, building maintainable code, performance)
  • Ability to work with minimal instructions on day-to-day work, able to consume and self-start with general instructions on new assignments. Participates in an inclusive and supportive engineering culture.
What We Offer:
  • A Great Place to work
  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Fast track growth opportunities

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

If you’re a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.

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