Software Development Engineer, IMDb Entertainment Data & Discovery – Contributors
DESCRIPTION
IMDb, the world's leading source for entertainment information, reaches over 250 million unique visitors monthly. As a subsidiary of Amazon, IMDb combines the innovation of a global tech leader with the agility of a specialized team, offering a unique work environment at the intersection of entertainment, media, and technology.
We are seeking a Software Development Engineer to join our Contributors team. This role is integral to the development and maintenance of systems that facilitate user contributions to IMDb's vast entertainment database. The successful candidate will be responsible for enhancing and modernizing our contribution platforms, which include both modern and legacy systems leveraging Amazon technologies in frontend and backend.
This position offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on how millions of users worldwide interact with and contribute to the world's most comprehensive entertainment database. If you are passionate about technology, entertainment, and creating exceptional user experiences, we invite you to apply and be part of shaping the future of IMDb.
Key job responsibilities
1. Designing and implementing features across multiple systems to improve the user contribution experience in wide variety of technologies, such as: API services, web applications and mobile apps
2. Owning customer-facing features through the entire life-cycle, from design, implementation, testing, deployment and into production
3. Balancing long-term solutions with immediate needs while maintaining high standards for our code and customers
4. Ensuring operational excellence for reliable, secure and performant systems
5. Collaborating with cross-functional teams (UX Designers, Product Managers, and other Software Development Engineers) to deliver comprehensive solutions
6. Mentor and support the growth of other engineers
About the team
Contributors team aims to make IMDb the preferred destination for any person or organization to provide entertainment data to enrich the experience for the professionals, companies and fan community, on and off IMDb. We enable data contribution through user interface (UI) and application programming interface (API).
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
- Experience in professional, non-internship software development
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Full stack software development experience (Java/React/HTML/CSS/TypeScript/JavaScript) and strong object-oriented design skills with understanding of common design paradigms
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