Senior Software Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities: Build high-performance, stable, and scalable systems deployed in production. Always champion engineering and operational excellence. Drive best practices and set standards within the team. Influence the team’s strategy and contribute significantly to planning. Exercise good judgment when balancing immediate and long-term business needs. Creatively think and innovate to deliver delightful experiences for customers. Always demonstrate data-driven decision-making and continuously seek solutions to challenging problems. Hold strong opinions while remaining open to other perspectives. Consistently deliver results, with quality, in a fast-paced environment. Collaborate with peers, share knowledge, and contribute to technical decisions. Lead major functional changes in existing or new software systems. Investigate production issues, identify root causes, and improve processes. Provide guidance on design, coding, and operational best practices. Establish best practices and quality standards within the team. Mentor junior engineers and positively influence the team. What to Bring:Bachelor’s degree with 5 – 8 years of experience as a software developer. Strong proficiency in Java (8+) with experience building scalable, cloud-native, microservices-based systems. Experience in building and operating global-scale large platform services in non-prod and prod environments. Ability to collaborate effectively with remote peers across disparate geographies and time zones. Strong CS fundamentals; strong technical understanding of Kubernetes-based microservice architectures, REST/gRPC communication patterns, caching solutions, messaging services, DB services, API gateways, service mesh, and infrastructure-as-code technologies/processes. Direct experience with at least one cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, or other). Experience establishing and improving data-driven infrastructure and service KPIs such as performance, scale, availability, reliability, security. A strong understanding of security best practices and a high bar for protecting customer data. Ability to implement alerting, metrics, and logging using tools like Prometheus, CloudWatch, Kibana, PagerDuty. Experience with persistence and caching solutions such as PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, and Caffeine. Familiar with asynchronous, non-blocking, functional/reactive styles of programming. Hands-on experience with frameworks such as Spring WebFlux, Vert.x, Node.js. Operational Experience to run services globally; on-call rotation, incident response, playbooks. Excellent written and verbal communication skills with emphasis on technical documentation. Championing Inclusion at WBD.