Lead Backend Software Engineer

Make your mark at Comcast -- a Fortune 30 global media and technology company. From the connectivity and platforms we provide, to the content and experiences we create, we reach hundreds of millions of customers, viewers, and guests worldwide. Become part of our award-winning technology team that turns big ideas into cutting-edge products, platforms, and solutions that our customers love. We create space to innovate, and we recognize, reward, and invest in your ideas, while ensuring you can proudly bring your authentic self to the workplace. Join us. You’ll do the best work of your career right here at Comcast. (In most cases, Comcast prefers to have employees on-site collaborating unless the team has been designated as virtual due to the nature of their work. If a position is listed with both office locations and virtual offerings, Comcast may be willing to consider candidates who live greater than 100 miles from the office for the remote option.)

Job Summary

Join the Comcast Syndication Engineering agile DevOps team, where you'll play a key role in designing and developing cutting-edge, partner-facing APIs and tools. These solutions seamlessly integrate Comcast products and technology with partner systems across North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region.

As a team member, you'll have the opportunity to:

- Design and develop global infrastructure and software solutions
- Collaborate closely with program teams and other Comcast delivery groups
- Work alongside Comcast partners to ensure successful integration
- Contribute to global systems monitoring and analytical solutions, ensuring an exceptional experience for Comcast partners
- This role offers a unique chance to make a significant impact on a global scale, while working closely with a talented team and contributing to the success of Comcast and its partners.

Are you passionate about digital media, entertainment, and software services? Do you like big challenges and working within a highly motivated team environment?

We are looking for an outstanding engineer within the CTS organization who will work closely with CTS Engineering and program delivery teams that are responsible for delivering new products and functionality to partner providers. We are a team that thrives on big challenges, results, quality, and agility.

Who does the Senior Software Engineer work with?

You will work closely with CTS Engineering team, the CTS Program Delivery teams and the CTS Operational Readiness Team to deliver features and capabilities to our Syndication partners. You will also interact heavily with the internal Comcast engineering & Operations teams as part of new features development for our partners. 


What are some interesting things you will be doing?

In this role, you will be responsible for defining and building the critical software components that enable the large family of Comcast products to be syndicated to partners. You will be a senior member of DevOps team that leverage CI/CD and Agile practice and work with emerging public cloud and other technologies.
You will work with the internal engineering teams at Comcast while working on new features and to help those teams to troubleshoot partner issues. You will be integral part of the agile delivery team utilizing such software delivery concepts as CI/CD, Infrastructure as a Code, and Configuration as a Code. You will be working with latest cloud technologies to deliver best value to our partners. You will have opportunity to coach more junior team members to ensure high quality of software delivery. You will have opportunity to interact with Comcast partners in order to deliver high quality products

Job Description

This position is ineligible for visa sponsorship.  To be considered for this role, you must be legally authorized to work in the United States and not require sponsorship for employment now or in the future.

Core Responsibilities

As a senior member of the Comcast Syndication Development team the Engineer 5 will be responsible for planning, design, development, and rolling out Comcast APIs used by Comcast partners to integrate with Comcast backend services. In particular:

• Work with partners and technical architects on technical requirements definition 
• Establish development best practices
• Design major features and capabilities
• Make major technical and architectural decisions
• Mentor developers on the team
• Perform code reviews/approvals
• Expand the document development best practices 
• Assist with cloud-based infrastructure planning and implementation
• Assist in the ongoing system support and maintenance
• Be integral part of the team's agile practices, propose the delivery process optimizations as needed
• Maintain technical documentation
• Create technical tickets for developers
• Suggest quality and reliability improvements
• Hands-on feature and infrastructure development 

Requirements

• 7-10+ years of backend engineering experience
• Self-starter
• Experience developing technical requirements for complex solutions
• Previous experience mentoring developers
• Experience developing, maintaining, and organizing technical documentation
• Expert in AWS
• Expert in Python 
• Extensive experience developing Restful high-volume APIs using API Gateway, Lambda, Python
• Good understanding of AWS automated deployment technologies in CI/CD context
• Good understanding of automated testing approaches for cloud-based Restful APIs in AWS environment
• Experience with secure software development best practices

Nice to Have Skills

• Previous Telecommunications industry experience 
• Full stack development experience including React, Bootstrap
• Github actions experience

Employees at all levels are expected to:

• Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
• Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
• Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
• Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
• Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
• Drive results and growth.
• Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.
• Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

Disclaimer:

• This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

What You Can Expect:

• An encouraging and casual work environment with chances to showcase your skills.
• A culture of innovation and continuous learning.
• Training, support, and mentoring to expand and evolve your expertise.
• For more insight into our culture, check out: https://jobs.comcast.com/life-at-comcast

About Our Perks & Benefits:
We are determined to create an environment where our employees feel valued, understand our business goals, and are motivated.
Here's a look at just some of the perks and benefits we make available to our US-based employees:

• Medical & Dental
• 401(k) Savings Plan
• Generous paid time off
• Life Milestones - from adoption assistance, childcare resources, pet insurance, and more, Comcast supports you at all life stages.
• Courtesy Services - We offer all of our full-time employees in serviceable areas discounted digital TV and internet.
• Discounted tickets for Universal Resorts, and free tickets to our Universal theme parks!
• To learn more please visit: https://jobs.comcast.com/benefits

Reasonable Accommodation
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Comcast is an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer.

Skills

Agile Methodology, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Python (Programming Language)

We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That's why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality—to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life.

Please visit the benefits summary on our careers site for more details.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Certifications (if applicable)

Relative Work Experience

10 Years +

Comcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.