Senior Software Engineer, Strategic Infrastructure
Comcast Interactive Media (CIM), Comcasts online media division, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Strategic Infrastructure engineering group at its Philadelphia location. The Strategic Infrastructure group is responsible for developing and maintaining fault-tolerant, scalable software that helps CIM launch new products efficiently and with confidence. If you are excited by the thought of developing software that delivers web content to millions of users a month, across multiple data centers, then this is the position for you!
Our ideal candidate loves to write code and understands that it takes a lot of different types of people to launch successful technology products. As a Senior Software Engineer, you have excellent technical and communication skills, being able to work comfortably on multiple projects with people from engineering, product management, technical operations, and QA teams.
Responsibilities include:
Producing technical designs and documentation at varying levels of granularity
Writing code that meets functional requirements and is testable and maintainable
Writing tests to verify that code meets functional requirements
Presenting technical material to technical and non-technical audiences
Prioritizing work across multiple projects
Mentoring more junior members of the technical staff
Qualifications:
5+ years of relevant hands-on experience working with people in technical roles (software developers, systems administrators, architects, etc.), and a record of individual technical contribution
Technical excellence and a strong academic background; BA/BS in Computer Science preferred, MS/PhD a plus.
Knowledge in several of: Design Patterns, Java, Python, UN*X, HTTP and RESTful web services, Javascript, RDBMS, non-relational data stores, and distributed systems
Knowledge about Amazon web services including S3, EC2, SQS and SimpleDB
Solid understanding of fundamental software engineering practices including version control, build processes, continuous integration, and deployment
Ability to earn the trust of developers through a combination of demonstrated technical merit and good people skills
Ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
Familiar with agile development methodologies such as Scrum
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Comcast Interactive Media (CIM), Comcasts online media division, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Strategic Infrastructure engineering group at its Philadelphia location. The Strategic Infrastructure group is responsible for developing and maintaining fault-tolerant, scalable software that helps CIM launch new products efficiently and with confidence. If you are excited by the thought of developing software that delivers web content to millions of users a month, across multiple data centers, then this is the position for you!
Our ideal candidate loves to write code and understands that it takes a lot of different types of people to launch successful technology products. As a Senior Software Engineer, you have excellent technical and communication skills, being able to work comfortably on multiple projects with people from engineering, product management, technical operations, and QA teams.
Responsibilities include:
Producing technical designs and documentation at varying levels of granularity
Writing code that meets functional requirements and is testable and maintainable
Writing tests to verify that code meets functional requirements
Presenting technical material to technical and non-technical audiences
Prioritizing work across multiple projects
Mentoring more junior members of the technical staff
Qualifications:
5+ years of relevant hands-on experience working with people in technical roles (software developers, systems administrators, architects, etc.), and a record of individual technical contribution
Technical excellence and a strong academic background; BA/BS in Computer Science preferred, MS/PhD a plus.
Knowledge in several of: Design Patterns, Java, Python, UN*X, HTTP and RESTful web services, Javascript, RDBMS, non-relational data stores, and distributed systems
Knowledge about Amazon web services including S3, EC2, SQS and SimpleDB
Solid understanding of fundamental software engineering practices including version control, build processes, continuous integration, and deployment
Ability to earn the trust of developers through a combination of demonstrated technical merit and good people skills
Ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
Familiar with agile development methodologies such as Scrum
Source: Joel On Software