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We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with Data Engineering Skills to join our Gracenote Tech team. The ideal candidates would have a passion for Clean Code, scalable architectures, Test Driven Development and DevOps.

Job Purpose

• Develop and enhance our flagship Video metadata software solution.

• Design applications with a Platform-first mentality where scale, consistency and reliability are at the core of every decision.

Job Description

• 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 vertical.

• Immediate focus on building our next generation ingestion pipeline leveraging automation at the core requiring minimal human intervention.

• Interact with Product, Editorial and Client Experience teams to constantly refine the Gracenote offering.

Role Requirements / Desired Skills

• 2-4 years of experience working in Software Development

• At least 2+ years of experience in Java / Spark

• Experience in AWS

• Experience with Unix/Linux based platforms.

• Experience in Terraform, Ansible and ORM technologies

• Experience with databases like Postgre, Cassandra SQL etc.

• Experience in writing unit test code

• A solid grasp of computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, memory management and distributed systems

• Proficiency in software engineering tools

• Have experience with API’s, JSON(P) and XML

• Ability to document requirements and specifications

• Energetic team player

• Experience working in an Agile environment.

• Good communication skills and able to share knowledge with the team.

• Good knowledge of the English language, both spoken and written.

• B.E / B.Tech in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.

Additional skill set (Good to have)

• Experience in automated testing platforms like Selenium

• Experience with containers (docker, containers) and kubernetes.

• Experience with Presto, Trino, Spark, Airflow, Prometheus, ELK, or similar technologies.

• Have an affinity with Video, Music & Sports domain

• Like to understand and brainstorm about architecture

• Have knowledge of other technologies like orchestration tools, database optimization, server/application optimization

• History of open source contributions

• Experience with DevOps practices and software

• A passion for exploring new programming languages