Senior Backend Engineer

Job Description Summary
As a senior member of the Syndication Development team you are responsible for design and development of the software components (such as XMP APIs) required to integrate Comcast products & technology with large MSO’s systems across North American, Europe, and Asia/Pacific. You will design and develop the best infrastructure and software solutions & monitor emerging technologies/technology practices for potential use within the team and company to meet the needs of the Syndication business. You will be provided with an opportunity to work with cutting edge cloud technologies while interfacing with other Comcast teams and Comcast 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 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 product

Core Responsibilities
As a senior member of XMP Development team the Engineer 4 will be responsible for planning, development, and rolling out Comcast XMP API used by Comcast partners to integrate with Comcast backend services. In particular:

Participate in making major technical and architectural decisions
Hands-on development of the API features
Hands-on development of the partner and internal-facing applications and components  
Hands-on development of the new tools to make the API management more efficient
Design major features and capabilities
Mentor developers on the team
Perform code reviews/approvals
Expand the document development best practices 
Assist with cloud-based infrastructure planning and implementation
Work with partners and technical architects on technical requirements definition 
Assist in the ongoing system support and maintenance
Be integral part of the team's agile practices, propose the delivery process optimizations as needed
Requirements
Self-starter
Previous experience mentoring developers
Working knowledge of AWS, specifically API Gateway, Lambda, CloudWatch, SNS, SQS, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB
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
Nice to Have Skills
Previous Telecommunications industry experience 
Full stack development experience including React, Bootstrap