Software Engineer II

Summary

Join NBC Sports Next Youth Sports as a passionate Software Engineer II! Design, develop, and maintain scalable and secure systems within a continuous delivery environment. Contribute to standardizing design patterns and accelerating development velocity. Collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the SDLC, prioritizing work and reducing technical debt. Provide recommendations for best practices and utilize metrics to address production issues. This fully remote position offers a competitive salary and a flexible work environment.

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years experience as a software engineer
• Have a foundation in modern coding practices from which you are ready to contribute from and ready to grow upon
• Angular or Ruby on Rails, or both technologies
• Ability to write quality, modular, maintainable, secure and testable code
• Familiarity with testing best practices including unit and integration tests
• Have a team-oriented attitude and intellectual curiosity

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, performant, secure, and highly available systems
• Develop in a Continuous Delivery environment where you will ship code to production daily
• Write modular and maintainable code with unit tests
• Implement strategies for standardizing design patterns across the Youth and Recreational Sports platform to accelerate development velocity across the team
• Own your work, leave it all on the field
• Help influence and prioritize work toward efficient iterations
• Be part of a cross-functional team and participate in all facets of the SDLC
• Produce schematics and diagrams
• Identify common bottlenecks and blockers, advocate for mitigation
• Help engineering and product leadership to expand high-level strategies into actionable work
• Prioritize and reduce technical debt and developer friction to ensure our system is modern, fast, and easy to work with
• Provide recommendations and advocate for best practices including testing, code quality, operations, frameworks, tooling and performance
• Work with other engineers through code reviews, pair programming and guilds
• Use metrics and logging to triage production system issues with your team

Preferred Qualifications

• Effective in a highly collaborative cross functional team environment using Git and GitHub Pull Request workflows
• Experience in a continuous delivery environment
• Exhibit a deep respect for building software sustainably using modern techniques and industry best practices
• Ability to build consensus and a collaborative team environment
• Ability to use data to drive decision making
• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) is awesome, but not required
• Familiarity with our expanded Technology Stack: Ruby, Linux, Amazon Web Services, Github, MySQL, Javascript, Node.js, Nx, Serverless, Typescript

Benefits

• Fully Remote: This position has been designated as fully remote, meaning that the position is expected to contribute from a non-NBCUniversal worksite, most commonly an employee’s residence. Applicants in the Minneapolis area have the option of working out of our Minneapolis office space. We strive to create a remote and hybrid friendly work environment, giving our employees the flexibility to choose what works best for them
• Salary range: $90,000-100,000