What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineering Technical Lead - Samsung TV Plus position at Samsung Electronics America?
Samsung Electronics America’s North American Service Business is tasked with building consumer services at a global scale. Driving growth in ad based services, and streaming compelling media to all Samsung screens (TVs, phones, tablets, web, etc. ). This backend engineer will be architecting, coding, and deploying modules to our existing AWS backend for TV Plus. They will also provide technical mentorship and leadership to a backend team and help architect solutions for upcoming media streaming projects. The right candidate will have a high degree of technical proficiency and the patience and willingness to share it with others.
Main Responsibilities
Perform as a technical mentor and individual contributor of a small, distributed team of software engineers in an ever-changing corporate environment.
Implement back-end service components, tasks, and architecture to support TV Plus server-side ad insertion, linearization, ad markers, session management, etc.
Work in an agile, task-based environment (I hope you like Jira!) to conduct engineering activities, projects, research, and / or operational tests in conformance to functional specifications, design requirements, operational capacities, and customer performance expectations.
Debug production issues raised by customers and customer support teams, isolate the cause, and work towards a fix.
Participate in meetings with other engineering staff and stakeholders to work towards ideal solutions, and develop a deep understanding of requirements to help break them down into engineering tasks.
Exercise judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
The Stack
Strong proficiency in Golang and Python is an absolute requirement for back-end development; some occasional front end work may be required, primarily in Node.js. DB management through Mongo.
Primarily OSX / Mac development machines, with Unix-based (Linux) deployment
Deployment via Git, Github Actions, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, and other AWS infrastructure
Monitoring using CloudWatch, DataDog
Usage of various AWS Elemental products (MediaConnect, MediaLive, MediaPackage, MediaTailor)
Qualifications
8 years of software development experience in a large-scale production environment
Bachelors / Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related STEM field
Experience working in HLS streaming or with video tools is a plus.
Positive attitude, highly flexible, and self-motivated
Able to communicate complex technical matters to an audience of equal or higher technical competency.
Strong understanding of security compliance
Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms.
Ability to debug unfamiliar distributed architectures and isolate problems
Ability to deliver and accept feedback on code and design
Experience in writing unit and integration tests.
Experience in continuous integration / deployment preferred
Highly detail-oriented with strong analytical skills
Ability to work and communicate effectively with partners in different cultures and geographies
Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action
Highly detail-oriented with strong analytical skills
Normally receives general instructions on routine work with detailed instructions on new projects or assignments
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