Principal Software Engineer

September 16

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The DIRECTV Remote • Satellite TV • Streaming TV • Live Sports • Entertainment

10,000+

Description

• Work with business leaders to understand execution priorities and how they result in business value; ensure that developed capabilities meet desired business outcomes. • Participate in feasibility and cost/benefit discussions to guide prioritization and feature roadmap creation. • Oversee technical delivery and devise approaches to implement enhancements that efficiently take advantage of existing platform capabilities where possible; consult on application architecture; deliver capabilities that are economical to sustain in the long term. • Develop delivery plans that anticipate risks and mitigate them early. • Lead delivery teams to work with urgency and focus to deliver quality enhancements at a high velocity; remove barriers, negotiate dependencies, and manage resourcing concerns. • Ensure that teams are operating in a standardized, measurable way; monitor and manage agile delivery metrics; drive adoption of modern delivery practices and DIRECTV standards. • Understand backlog demands and manage vendor capacity and budgets to ensure resourcing is in place when needed, and that resources are efficiently utilized. • Execute quality management processes (e.g. testing) to ensure solutions developed are performant and meet business requirements. • Identify needed nonfunctional requirements (performance, alerting/monitoring, capacity, compliance, security, etc.) and ensure they are addressed. • Prepare and provide updates to leadership.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, computer science, or a related field is preferred and highly recommended. • 7+ years of experience in software engineering and the design, development of complex systems, including as a team lead. • Experience working in multiple Agile methodologies (scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and familiarity with the tooling used to coordinate this work (mainly Jira, Jira Align). • Experience with web-specific processes and technologies, including requirements, design/UX, accessibility, content management systems, front-end frameworks (e.g. React), SEO, clickstream analytics, and tag management. • Robust knowledge of several programming languages (e.g. Java, C++, Python, etc.). • Expertise in modern delivery and deployment practices, such as CI/CD, quality automation, test-driven development, blue/green releases strategies, etc. • Experience developing for and deploying to cloud environments. • Strong written and oral communication skills. • Demonstrated judgment and decisiveness in a fast-paced, changing work environment. • Leadership, organizational, and delegation skills to break large projects down into milestones and assign tasks best suited to team members, and to coach team members.