Java Engineer II

Overview

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.

• 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

• 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, Cloud Formation, etc.

• 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

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