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Principal, Software Engineer

VIZIO, Inc.
Dallas, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 1/24/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/23/2025

About the Team : VIZIO’s Technology – Software and Services team is seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to join their growing team. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work together within the team and contribute to innovate VIZIO products. The Lead Engineer will report directly to the supervisor leading the team and will be assigned tasks requiring a certain level of insight in terms of specific technology.

Find out if this opportunity is a good fit by reading all of the information that follows below.

What You Will Do :

  • Design and implement software related to TV, mobile, and related cloud services following clean code principles.
  • Manage smaller teams and communicate designs and decisions within the team while encouraging new ideas and solutions.
  • Code and build high-quality mobile applications.
  • Drive the execution and delivery of features by collaborating with several cross-functional teams on project planning, coordination, and reviews.
  • Be a multiplier and have a passion for team and team members’ success by leading, coaching, and mentoring the software engineering team.
  • Vocally advocate for technical excellence and help the team make good decisions through product discovery that helps identify and break our product goals into technical projects.
  • Help continuously improve team productivity, code quality, tools, and technology adoption.
  • Work in Agile mode, which includes attending the daily status meeting with the entire team.
  • Research and implement functional requirements using the latest technology standards and skills.
  • Guide the team in maintaining clean, extensible, and modular code for cross-platform architecture.

About You :

  • At least a B.S. in computer science or similar.
  • 7 years of experience in full-stack development using NodeJS, JavaScript, React, TypeScript, and SQL. Knowledge of Python is preferred.
  • Ability to know when to use an existing solution and when to build something new.
  • Strong system design skills with extensive experience designing scalable and highly available distributed systems.
  • Strong software development and design experience as a lead developer.
  • At least 3 years of experience with the AWS ecosystem, including tools, services, and resources that enable scalable, available, and distributed processing.
  • Experience in designing and building scalable Microservices.
  • Experience with serverless development, Fargate, ECS, and EKS.
  • Strong database experience with writing complex SQL queries and analysis of data correlations.
  • Experience working with No-SQL databases like Dynamo, Cassandra, or Mongo is a plus.
  • Proficiency with software best practices (e.g., CI / CD using Git / AWS Code Commit, writing unit tests, maintaining clear documentation, UML diagramming with tools like Lucid, etc.).
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential.
  • About VIZIO : We are Beautifully Simple. Headquartered in Irvine, California, VIZIO is a leading HDTV brand in America and the #1 Sound Bar Brand in America. VIZIO's mission is to deliver high performance, smarter products with the latest innovations at a significant savings that we can pass along to our consumers. Our loyal following and industry-wide praise continues to grow as we redefine what it means to be smart.

    VIZIO, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

    We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes. We will not pay fees to any third-party agency, outside recruiter, or firm without a mutually agreed-upon contract and will not be responsible for any agency fees associated with unsolicited resumes. Unsolicited resumes will be considered our property and processed accordingly.

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