Software Architect

Job description

Summary of the role: In the Global Apps Engineering group, we’re responsible for developing the customer-facing application that runs on dozens of different consumer devices, like smart TVs, mobiles, streaming sticks, set-top-boxes and even VR devices and provides streaming services to millions of customers across the globe over multiple commercial propositions like Peacock, NOW, SkyShowtime and Showmax. Our group is also responsible for server-side services that are directly attached to our client applications, like experimentation (i.e. showing our customers different versions of the interface, or different functionalities, to understand how they perform and how our users interact with them), client configuration, and textual resources (UI labels/names). These are “tier-1” services that are used by our applications directly and need to service millions of client applications concurrently, with extremely high uptime and stringent latency requirements. The Senior Architect for GAE backends is in charge of designing the architecture of these critical backends, ensuring they are scalable, performant and secure, and evolve them according to our business needs and objectives. He / she...