Sr. Software Engineer

Company Description

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.

Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.

Comcast NBCUniversal has announced its intent to create a new publicly traded company ('Versant') comprised of most of NBCUniversal's cable television networks, including USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel along with complementary digital assets Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow, GolfPass, and SportsEngine. The well-capitalized company will have significant scale as a pure-play set of assets anchored by leading news, sports and entertainment content. The spin-off is expected to be completed during 2025.

Job Description

Our Media Group portfolio is a powerhouse collection of consumer-first brands, supported by media industry leaders, Comcast, NBCUniversal and Sky. When you join our team, you’ll work across our dynamic portfolio including Peacock, NOW, Fandango, SkyShowtime, Showmax, and TV Everywhere, powering streaming across more than 70 countries globally. And the evolution doesn’t stop there. With unequalled scale, our teams make the most out of every opportunity to collaborate and learn from one another. We’re always looking for ways to innovate faster, accelerate our growth and consistently offer the very best in consumer experience. But most of all, we’re backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire people to thrive.

Meet Peacock, NBCUniversal’s new, wildly entertaining streaming service that combines timeless shows and movies with timely news, sports and pop-culture.​

We’re growing our team of smart, hungry, and upbeat doers who crave the chance to build something new at the epicenter of content, tech, and culture.

The Peacock Sports & Entertainment group is looking to add a software engineer to the team of engineers to deliver high-quality user experiences across the NBC branded websites and apps. You will become a part of a team that builds and supports sites and services for both web and mobile, delivering content to millions of users.

The Peacock Sports & Entertainment team builds dynamic applications using cutting-edge technology to deliver performant applications, focusing on user experience. We are looking for a dynamic team player who is an owner, accountable and passionate about technology. You will be working on high-visibility applications serving millions of users for industry-leading sporting and entertainment events, such as the Super Bowl, Olympics, Saturday Night Live and America’s Got Talent. If you relish having your efforts on display for millions of users - this is your opportunity.

You will have a leading role, influencing API development, architecture, while optimizing performance, scale, and resiliency. Every member of the team works with a wide degree of creativity and latitude.

What the team does

• Creates and maintains services delivering under load for high traffic sites and applications across the branded NBC Universal ecosystem.
• Builds and extends Content management systems, APIs, microservices, and machine learning subsystems that integrate to display rendered data with personalized services for our users.
• Collaborates with product and other internal teams to drive innovation and improvements across the stack, including video delivery and user experience.
• Explores new technology, pushing the quality and speed capabilities of the systems, running POCs, and balancing innovation with system performance and resiliency.
• Supports major consumer-facing live events, including Olympics, Super Bowl and other selected high-traffic events across NBC.

Responsibilities

• Engineer performant systems that power the end-user experiences
• Review the code from other team members to ensure scalability and adherence to best practices
• Continuously learn, improve, and optimise processes and ways of working
• Collaborate both internally and externally across the broader technology organization to ensure sensible and consistent standards are defined and implemented.
• Build performant and scalable streaming apps for responsive web and living room platforms
• Collaborate with product and project team members to ensure timely delivery of quality releases
• Triage and fix bugs
• Provide feedback and coaching for software engineers within and across teams

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent software engineering experience
• 5+ year’s experience with CDN design and optimization for performance
• 5+ year’s experience designing systems to host, aggregate and display sports metadata, or equivalently complex real-time data.
• 5+ years industry experience with AWS and cloud services.
• 3+ years industry development experience with JavaScript/TypeScript
• 3+ year’s experience with node.js
• 2+ years SQL server
• Comfortable designing workflows with build tools and pipelines
• Solid understanding of design for scalability, performance, and reliability
• Experience with APIs and integrating 3rd party libraries.
• Familiar with relational and non-relational/nosql databases
• Experience working in a collaborative team environment
• Expertise integrating into large agile development projects and manage rapid development cycles
• Capable of leading multiple deliverables and completing assigned tasks efficiently
• Eagerness to work outside of comfort zone in new and different technologies
• Innovative and flexible thinker, comfortable suggesting solutions and willing to take risks
• An owner, committed to quality in every task, large or small

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $110,000 - $160,000.

Additional Information

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to [email protected].