Software Engineer II - NBC Sports Next

Company Description

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.

Comcast NBCUniversal has announced its intent to create a new publicly traded company ('SpinCo') 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.

As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, coupled with our Corporate Social Responsibility work, is informed by our employees, audiences, park guests and the communities in which we live. We strive to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. Together, we'll continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world.

Job Description

NBC Sports NEXT Youth Sports is looking for a passionate Software Engineer II to join our team.

As a Software Engineer II, you will…

• Design scalable, performant, secure, and highly available systems.
• Develop in a Continuous Delivery environment where you will ship code to production daily.
• Write modular and maintainable code with unit tests.
• Implement strategies for standardizing design patterns across the Youth and Recreational Sports platform to accelerate development velocity across the team.
• Own your work, leave it all on the field.
• Help influence and prioritize work toward efficient iterations.
• Be part of a cross-functional team and participate in all facets of the SDLC.
• Produce schematics and diagrams.
• Identify common bottlenecks and blockers, advocate for mitigation.
• Help engineering and product leadership to expand high-level strategies into actionable work.
• Prioritize and reduce technical debt and developer friction to ensure our system is modern, fast, and easy to work with.
• Provide recommendations and advocate for best practices including testing, code quality, operations, frameworks, tooling and performance.
• Work with other engineers through code reviews, pair programming and guilds.
• Use metrics and logging to triage production system issues with your team.
  
  

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years experience as a software engineer
• Have a foundation in modern coding practices from which you are ready to contribute from and ready to grow upon
• Angular or Ruby on Rails, or both technologies
• Ability to write quality, modular, maintainable, secure and testable code
• Familiarity with testing best practices including unit and integration tests
• Have a team-oriented attitude and intellectual curiosity
  
  

Desired Characteristics

• Effective in a highly collaborative cross functional team environment using Git and GitHub Pull Request workflows
• Experience in a continuous delivery environment
• Exhibit a deep respect for building software sustainably using modern techniques and industry best practices
• Ability to build consensus and a collaborative team environment
• Ability to use data to drive decision making
• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) is awesome, but not required
• Bonus points if you have familiarity with our expanded Technology Stack: Ruby, Linux, Amazon Web Services, Github, MySQL, Javascript, Node.js, Nx, Serverless, Typescript
  
  

Fully Remote: This position has been designated as fully remote, meaning that the position is expected to contribute from a non-NBCUniversal worksite, most commonly an employee’s residence. Applicants in the Minneapolis area have the option of working out of our Minneapolis office space. We strive to create a remote and hybrid friendly work environment, giving our employees the flexibility to choose what works best for them.

Further information

Salary range: $90,000-100,000

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 AccessibilitySupport@nbcuni.com.

For LA County and City Residents Only: NBCUniversal will consider for employment

qualified applicants with criminal histories, or arrest or conviction records, in a manner

consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance

Initiative For Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles' County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, where applicable.