Overview Of The Company
Fox Corporation
Under the FOX banner, we produce and distribute content through some of the world’s leading and most valued brands, including: FOX News Media, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations and Tubi Media Group. We empower a diverse range of creators to imagine and develop culturally significant content, while building an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise and strategic thinking.
Job Description
At Fox Tech, we stand as a beacon of innovation, crafting world-class, large scale digital products that redefine the entertainment experience. We're on the lookout for visionary individuals to join our pioneering team, tasked with shaping the future of streaming products. Now is your chance to be part of creating and delivering extraordinary digital experiences spanning Sports and Entertainment.
As a key member of our team, you'll drive innovation and significantly contribute to our mission of pioneering the next generation of streaming products. Your opportunity to create unparalleled fan experiences for these iconic sports events is here. Our current advanced digital solutions, accessed by millions across web, mobile, and living room devices, signify just the start of our ambitious journey.
About The Role
As a Senior Software Engineer within our team, responsible for the core components of our products across tech stack, infrastructure, entitlement teams. Your primary focus will revolve around managing and enhancing critical systems including tech stack, which powers, entitlement, identity, commerce services at scale. Collaborate extensively with stakeholders across our business domains, ensuring the development of top-tier payment solutions. Stay at the forefront of technology trends to optimize tech stack to serve events like Super Bowl, World Cup, US elections, NFL etc. Your role is pivotal in crafting highly efficient, scalable quality code while exceeding non-functional requirements to deliver exceptional user experiences.
A Snapshot Of Your Responsibilities
- You’ll be part of the engineering team responsible for the heart and soul of our direct-to-consumer products in the entitlement team which builds services to serve contents to millions of concurrent users.
- You’ll be responsible for the implementation and maintenance of next generation platform and services based on Golang, EKS and other AWS services supporting live, vod and dvr content for direct to consumer products.
- You’ll be expected to be a hands-on programmer in this role.
- You’ll be assisting with designing and architecting solutions for the future of tech stack which powers the entitlement platform.
- Partner with our different stakeholders across our businesses to ensure that we are building class-leading payment solutions.
- Staying abreast of trends in the microservices, AWS EKS, Golang and other industry standards to ensure we are taking advantage of any technologies which would enhance the experience of our subscribers and potentially drive more subscriptions.
- Writing highly efficient and high-quality code with proper code coverage and automation testing.
- Ensure that our non-functional requirements are class-leading and that we are exceeding expectations as we deliver them.
What You Will Need
- Golang experience. We are almost exclusively Golang so you should be proficient in Golang or similar languages (Rust, etc). We are looking for someone who can confidently step in and contribute from day 1.
- AWS EKS, Kubernetes and AWS experience with networking and load balancing.
- Proven experience with solving scalability issues including thundering herd scenarios.
- Deep understanding of event driven architectural patterns.
- Deep experience working with external APIs/partners. A large part of your job will be integrating with partners both internally and externally. You should be confident in your ability to establish and maintain data contracts and ensure forwards and backwards compatibility.
- Understanding of EKS, Terraform and other supporting tech stack in general. You should have some exposure to understand complexity around geo location, personalization, entitlement etc.
- Innovative Mindset: A passion for exploring new technologies and frameworks to improve product performance and elevate user experience.
- Collaborative Spirit: Ability to work effectively within a team, contributing ideas and solutions while valuing collective success. You understand that not all businesses are the same but you can find ways to make the commerce experience amazing across all of FOX’s businesses.
- Adaptability: Willingness to adapt to evolving technologies and embrace learning opportunities to drive continuous improvement. You embrace the fast-changing nature of the technology industry and look forward to serving content to millions of concurrent users without any issues.
- FOX Tech is a globally distributed team; You’ll need to be open to attending occasional meetings and/or trouble shooting sessions outside your normal work hours.
NICE TO HAVE, BUT NOT A DEALBREAKER
- Experience working on streaming applications, particularly those which carry high-scale events.
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