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　　We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with Data Engineering Skills to join our Gracenote Tech team. The ideal candidates would have a passion for Clean Code, scalable architectures, Test Driven Development and DevOps.

　　Job Purpose

　　Develop and enhance our flagship Video metadata software solution.

　　Design applications with a Platform-first mentality where scale, consistency and reliability are at the core of every decision.

　　Job Description

　　Design software with a Product-owner mentality: your software is the product and as such you own the product as much as any business person does.

　　Work within small, highly configurable teams to deliver software in rapid increments using an iterative approach.

　　Develop applications to catalog and power the world’s largest entertainment metadata repository across the Video vertical.

　　Immediate focus on building our next generation ingestion pipeline leveraging automation at the core requiring minimal human intervention.

　　Interact with Product, Editorial and Client Experience teams to constantly refine the Gracenote offering.

　　Role Requirements / Desired Skills

　　2-4 years of experience working in Software Development

　　At least 2+ years of experience in Java / Spark

　　Experience in AWS

　　Experience with Unix/Linux based platforms.

　　Experience in Terraform, Ansible and ORM technologies

　　Experience with databases like Postgre, Cassandra SQL etc.

　　Experience in writing unit test code

　　A solid grasp of computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, memory management and distributed systems

　　Proficiency in software engineering tools

　　Have experience with API’s, JSON(P) and XML

　　Ability to document requirements and specifications

　　Energetic team player

　　Experience working in an Agile environment.

　　Good communication skills and able to share knowledge with the team.

　　Good knowledge of the English language, both spoken and written.

　　B.E / B.Tech in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.

　　Additional skill set (Good to have)

　　Experience in automated testing platforms like Selenium

　　Experience with containers (docker, containers) and kubernetes.

　　Experience with Presto, Trino, Spark, Airflow, Prometheus, ELK, or similar technologies.

　　Have an affinity with Video, Music & Sports domain

　　Like to understand and brainstorm about architecture

　　Have knowledge of other technologies like orchestration tools, database optimization, server/application optimization

　　History of open source contributions

　　Experience with DevOps practices and software

　　A passion for exploring new programming languages