Senior Software Engineer-Fullstack, Search & Personalization

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Who We Are…

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Senior Software Engineer-Fullstack, Search & Personalization- Hyderabad, India.

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 Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.

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Roles & Responsibilities:

We are looking for a passionate Senior Software Engineer – Full stack to support, build and scale the personalization and search platforms for the global streaming app Max as well as ongoing and future streaming initiatives. You are excited about working in a fast-moving environment that fosters engineering and operational excellence with continuous development, deployment, experimentation, quality assurance, and collaboration. You will bring an obsession with our customers along with skills for rapid feature iteration. In your role, you will be working in a team of passionate software engineers, machine engineers and applied researchers contributing to a system that serves 100+ million users worldwide.

• Contribute to building and scaling a recommendation system that powers a state-of-the-art personalization experience to users across Max, Discovery+ and other WBD offerings

• Contribute on building systems and reusable tools for personalization – including interactive visualization tools to generate and manage personas and integrate with data and ML models.

• Collaborate with applied data science and machine learning engineers to improve quality, stability, resilience of search and personalization platforms.

• Author, test, review, and optimize production-level code in Java/Go and Python while executing best practices in version control and code integration.

• Motivate, inspire and create a culture of experimentation and data-driven innovation while constantly striving to be an advocate for doing what is right for our customers

• Contribute technical documentation to support knowledge transfer and sharing

• Troubleshoot issues in recommendation systems as front-line support

What to Bring:

• 5+ years of experience developing scalable solutions, frameworks, tools, and strategies across frontend and backend services

• Experience in developing full-stack solutions in Java and JavaScript with proficiency in Java development frameworks, including but not limited to Vert.x and Spring Boot and contemporary JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular). Experience with NodeJS, Python are a plus

• Experience in backend and frontend software development, building micro services, event driven architectures and solutions.

• Strong knowledge and experience in multiple test types including unit, functional, integration, API, load and performance tests.

• Experience in private and public API design and cross-service integrations

• Demonstrated ability to use common 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.

• Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g., unit testing, design patterns, building maintainable code, performance)

• Familiarity with a range of database technologies, encompassing both SQL and NoSQL options.

• Usage and deep understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS services.

• Experience building, operating, and owning services. Implementing operational excellence mechanisms including alerting, metrics, and logging

• Ability to technically collaborate with partners

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, be comfortable to contribute to technical documentation and on-call support

• Experience with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins etc.

• Familiarity with agile practices and processes

• 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.

Preferred:

• DevOps experience (AWS preferred) architecting, configuring cloud technology stacks (Network Security, API Gateways, VPCs, CDNs, Kafka/MKS, Kubernetes, EKS, Jenkins configuration, CI/CD configurations etc.)

What We Offer:

• A Great Place to work.

• Equal opportunity employer

• Fast track growth opportunities

How We Get Things Done…

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