Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Commerce Team), Hyderabad

Storytelling is, and will always be, the heart of what we do at Skydance.
Our vision is to build a thriving entertainment ecosystem where stories and worlds are imagined, brought to life and experienced. We create for every age and audience, anchored by the strength of our content and experiences and the depth of our connection with fans. We are creator-first, audience-focused, tech-forward, globally scaled.
Here, you’ll work with talented teams that move fast, think boldly and collaborate with purpose to deliver results. We aim high, champion the best ideas and win together, earning the trust of our employees, creators, partners and audiences every day.
If you’re energized by the opportunity to help build the next-generation global media and entertainment company powered by creativity and technology, we’d be thrilled to welcome you aboard. LET’S GO!
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Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Commerce Team), Hyderabad
About Warner Bros. Discovery:
Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines Warner Media’s premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.
For more information, please visit www.wbd.com.
Meet Our Team:
The Commerce group is part of the Core & Data organization within WBD’s Global Tech division. Our services handle all aspects of monetizing our streaming services. This includes everything from managing products, pricing, and promotions; selling subscriptions and pay-per-view events; integration with 3rd party providers for global and local payment methods; handling taxes, fraud, financial reporting, and much, much more.
We provide the backend APIs that power all our clients, and our teams own design, build, maintain, and are responsible to both deploy and operate our services. The group is currently based in US, Sweden, and Poland and is now expanding in India.
Roles & Responsibilities:
• Has a track record of having built multiple high-performance, stable, scalable
systems that have been successfully shipped to customers in production.
• Drives best practices and sets standards for the team.
• Is a key influencer in the team’s strategy and contributes significantly to the team planning.
• Shows good judgment making trade-offs between immediate and long-term
business needs.
• Is a result-driven creative thinker who drives innovation and produces delightful experiences for our customers.
• Is an advocate for data-driven decision-making, has an insatiable curiosity, and loves to invent and innovate to solve difficult problems.
• Has a strong point of view but remains open-minded.
• Takes ownership of their work and consistently delivers results in a fast-paced
environment.
• You are a collaborative leader that makes other engineers and team members
around you more productive, by sharing your knowledge and helping to tie-break key
technical decisions.
• You play a leading role in designing and developing major functional changes to
existing software systems, or new ones, involving yourself and other engineers.
• You are a key influencer in your team’s strategy and contribute significantly to team
planning.
• You show good judgement making trade-offs between immediate and long-term
business needs.
• You troubleshoot a production issue by reviewing source code, logs, operational
metrics, stack trace, etc. to pinpoint a specific problem and then resolve it. You
identify root causes and identify learnings to improve both development processes
and system design.
• Provide guidance on design, coding, and operational best practices.
• You propose and create best practices proactively where none exist.
• You make high-impact decisions driving how and what software gets built.
• You mentor junior engineers, overseeing their designs, code quality, and integration
into a team.
• Your success is judged as much on your own productivity as on the positive impact
you have on the engineers around you.
What to Bring:
• Proficient in Java or other JVM languages with 5- 8 years of total experience.
• Experience and deep understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.
• Great understanding of distributed systems challenges, micro-service-based
architectures, and asynchronized communication (e.g. using gRPC and Kafka).
• Ability to implement alerting, metrics, and logging using tools like Prometheus,
CloudWatch, Kibana, PagerDuty.
• Practical knowledge of persistence and caching solutions such as PostgreSQL,
Redis, ElasticSearch, Caffeine.
• Familiar with asynchronous, non-blocking, functional/reactive styles of
programming. Hands-on experience with frameworks such as Spring WebFlux,
Vert.x, Node.js.
What We Offer:
• A Great Place to work.
• Equal opportunity employer
• Fast track growth opportunities
About Skydance
Skydance is a next-generation global media and entertainment company, comprised of three business segments: Studios, Direct-to-Consumer, and TV Media. Skydance's portfolio unites legendary brands, including Paramount, Warner Bros., HBO and HBO Max, Paramount+, Pluto TV, CBS, CNN, CBS Sports, TNT Sports, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, MTV, Food Network, BET, HGTV, and Comedy Central.
Some Important Details
We embrace the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit. In line with the laws of the country or region in which the role is based, this includes consideration without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship status, religion or belief, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or protected veteran status, union status or any other category protected by applicable law.
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