Software Development Engineer III - Backend (GMSS

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Software Development Engineer III Backend , GMSS Team , Bangalore

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 WarnerMedia's premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.

For more information, please visit www.wbd.com

Meet Our Team:

GMSS(Global Manifest Stitcher Service) mission is to provide global, self-service, multi tenant, turn-key server-side ad insertion for all DTC brands, for live simulcasts, live events, start-over, catch-up, and traditional VOD, across all the devices and platforms that matter for DTC customers.

Roles & Responsibilities:

You are experienced and capable of playing a leading role to design and develop major functional changes to existing software systems, or new ones, involving yourself and other Engineers
You make good decisions and exercise accurate judgment when choosing to build new vs extending existing ones
You provide guidance on design, coding, and operational best practices, and have a track-record of applying these best practices to software that you have worked on
You propose and proactively seek to establish best practices where none exist
You make high impact decisions driving, what and how software is built
You analyze requirements, study software architectures and designs to make decisions suiting the requirements. You are often right, and you are persuasive in delivering your suggestions and ideas to your team
You mentor junior Engineers, overseeing their designs, code quality, and integration into a team. Your success is judged as much on your own productivity as on the positive impact you have on Engineers around you
You communicate through data, dates and facts, applying them as appropriate to motivate and inspire
You are comfortable with scrum agile methodologies, adapting best engineering practices by showing people, not just telling people
You are equally passionate about code testability as you are for writing methodical, readable code.

What to Bring:

9 - 12 years, Proficient in Java 8, including use of Futures and Streams. OTT domain experience is a must.
You are proficient in Reactive programming, asynchronous, non-blocking backend engineering languages like Java, Go, Node JS, etc. Also familiar with Akka, Playframework, writing highly scalable engineering backend services and messaging services like Kafka, SQS and others.
Experience with one or more of: PostgreSQL and MySQL, Caching solutions (such as Redis and Guava), Search engine technology(preferably Elasticsearch)
Knowledge of, and professional experience with most AWS services, and deeper knowledge of EC2, S3, Kinesis, CloudFront and CloudWatch
Usage and deep understanding of Docker and Kubernetes