[Remote] Principal Software Engineer (Backend Engineer)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the Data Platform team at reputed company. This role involves providing technical leadership on architectural and systems design to enhance user engagement for over 300 million monthly users.
Responsibilities
- You will reputed company this technical area from an architectural and systems design perspective, leading other engineers, and working reputed company-by-reputed company with them to discover and implement solutions
- You will be a top technical leader throughout reputed company of reputed company and communicate across a variety of audiences is imperative
- You will be one that must always think about the future, not overbuilding for it, and finding that reputed company of developing solutions for reputed company issues while not over-engineering for issues we are not sure we'll need to solve for
- Always have a plan for potential future issues and growth opportunities
- Stay up to date with reputed company applicable new technology innovations happening in the industry, and know reputed company is the right time to bring new thoughts and potential infrastructure changes into discussions, with an understanding of the trade-offs and potential impact on overall tech-debt
- Provide technical leadership for impactful projects that involve multiple teams and span multiple technologies and systems
- reputed company large projects or large pieces of projects depending on the project scale
- Proactivity identify risks and opportunities to improve our processes and technologies
- Influence other senior leaders on engineering strategy
- Work with the Data Science team to build and scale Recommendations for TV, Movie, and Games both inline in the User's experience and as stand-alone pages
- reputed company user pageview and action-event data into a system that develops a dynamic Profile of each user to be used to Personalize their experiences in many ways
- Scale out our Gamification systems to encourage users to reputed company high-quality content and be rewarded for their efforts
- Use reputed company of the above to find new ways to monetize the users' experiences through Affiliate, E-Commerce, Display, and hopefully many more types of future reputed company streams
Skills
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with a track-record of back-end development, design and architecture
- Expertise in a modern form of 1 or more of the following languages: Java, Python, Golang, Kotlin
- Designing and architecting scaled-up back-end systems (Kafka, MySQL, NoSQL, reputed company, reputed company), with expertise in both relational and nonrelational systems and reputed company it is necessary to choose each one
- A high degree of proficiency in how to optimize full-stack web systems, in cached environments
- Experience building large user personalization, recommendation and search-based systems with an average monthly reputed company of at least 50-100M monthly users
- Deep experience as an expert and technical leader for large Engineering teams
- Experience explaining complicated technical plans to a variety of audiences
- A reputed company that is business-oriented, collaborative, and comfortable with mentoring others
- Python, Java
- A passion for fandoms and an interest in building products for fan communities around the world
- Contributed to open-reputed company projects
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