Associate Software Engineer
On-site
Job Description
The Engineering Experience team at NBCU is defining and building a paved road of tools and systems to accelerate and optimize our software development practices company wide. Our organization values collaboration and continuous improvement, and we strive to provide an environment where all ideas are valued. We believe that healthy organizations have a culture of accountability, transparency, and safety. This means that we commit to delivering things together, communicate constantly on status and risks, and that when we fail (and we should strive to fail) that we own up to it and use it as a learning experience with no blame or judgement involved.
We are looking for an enthusiastic Associate Software Engineer to join our experienced software team.
We are extremely interested in attracting a diverse range of candidates from diverse backgrounds. If you are not sure if you qualify, please err on the side of applying.
Responsibilities
You will report directly to the Engineering Manager and assist with all functions of software coding and design. Your primary focus will be to learn the codebase, and work with team members to implement solutions for existing problems. You will work with our users, as well as senior developers on the team who will provide coaching and mentoring. If you are looking for a role with significant growth and learning potential, then this is an excellent role for you.
Job Requirements
Basic Requirements:
- Related experience in software development, or an equivalent combination of education/experience, internships and/or in-school projects.
- Interest in building production-grade, cloud-native software with hands on experience in cloud automation
- Experience with OO Design Principles and Patterns
- Familiar with the concepts of NoSQL (DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, and Redis) and Relational DBs (AWS RDS, MySQL, or PostgreSQL)
- Knowledge of databases and operating systems, working knowledge of Data models and Database technologies.
Desired Characteristics:
- Bachelor's degree or combination of relevant education, experience, and training in Computer Science or a related field.
- Experience in serverless and event-driven architecture and building REST web services, with additional knowledge of OAUTH, SSO, Swagger/OpenAPI, mock endpoints, and global availability helpful.
- Exposure to designing and building back-end applications leveraging Python and API interactions.
- Experience in developing applications in a public cloud (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure) would be a plus.
