Java Engineer II

As a member of the Experience Delivery - Sports Distribution Team, you will build and support the tools services and distribution APIs that deliver sports data and content to all our products including the ESPN app, , ESPN Studio shows, among many others. We are looking for a passionate, impactful technologist who seeks to bring the best out in themselves and those around them. Someone who can provide a fresh perspective and innovative insight to our initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers and fellow engineers in the design and implementation of systems delivering high throughput experiences
• Contribute to cross-team architecture discussions
• Analyze and resolve complex engineering problems involving high trafficked web and mobile application services and APIs
• Work with the team to iteratively improve development practices and processes
• Help with full-stack development when needed
• Research and experiment with the latest and greatest technologies to identify and apply them to current and future projects
• Work with the team to iteratively improve development practices and processes
• Contribute to code reviews

Skills Required

• 2+ years of relevant industry experience
• Some experience in developing high volume, cached, fault tolerant, multi-threaded scalable systems
• Experience with Java and open-source technologies like Spring, Tomcat, MySQL, Kafka, Elastic Search, etc.
• Exposure to cloud-based technologies such as AWS EC2, ECS, SQS, S3, Lambda, CloudFormation, etc.

Preferred Skills

• Exposure to full lifecycle of application development, including best practices of unit testing, code reviews, documentation, etc.
• Motivated self-starter with the ability to learn and adapt to new technologies
• Strong analytical skills as well as solid capabilities for debugging and troubleshooting.
• Good communication skills and attention to detail

Education & Work Experience

• BA/BS Degree Comp Sci/IS or related field

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