Lead Software Engineer (Back-End) - Subscription

Lead Software Engineer (Back-End) - Subscription

Warner Bros. Discovery

Stockholm, Sweden

About the role

We are hiring Lead Software Development Engineers to join our team in Stockholm. The ideal candidate has a track record of having built multiple high-performance, stable, scalable systems that have been successfully shipped to customers in production. Your work and your approach to work are exemplary: you drive best practices and set standards for your team. You are a key influencer in your team’s strategy and contribute significantly to team planning. You show good judgment in making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs. You are a collaborative leader that makes other engineers and team members around you more productive by sharing your knowledge and helping to tie-break key technical decisions. You provide mentoring to other engineers.

Responsibilities

• You lead in designing and developing major functional changes to existing software systems, or new ones, involving yourself and other engineers. You make good decisions when to build new and when to extend existing. You are known for your subject matter expertise;
• Your work and your approach to work are exemplary: you drive best practices and set standards for your team. You can propose and create best practices proactively where none exist;
• You are a key influencer in your team’s strategy and contribute significantly to team planning. You show good judgment in making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs. You are a collaborative leader that makes other engineers and team members around you more productive by sharing your knowledge and helping to tie-break key technical decisions. You provide mentoring to other engineers, and your success is judged as much on your productivity as on the positive impact you have on the engineers around you;
• You can troubleshoot a production issue by reviewing source code, logs, operational metrics, stack trace, etc., to pinpoint a specific problem and then resolve it. You can identify root causes and identify learnings to improve both development processes and system design.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Java and a few other languages;
• Persistence and caching solutions such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, and ElasticSearch;
• Micro-service-based architectures using gRPC and Kafka for interservice communication;
• Asynchronous, non-blocking, functional style of programming and experience implementing with frameworks such as Spring WebFlux, Node.js, vert.x;
• Usage and deep understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS;
• Experience in building, operating, and truly owning services. Implementing alerting, metrics, and logging using Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana, and PagerDuty.

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