Job Description
About the Team
VIZIO’s Technology Software and Services team is seeking a Sr. Staff Software Engineer to join their growing team. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work together within the team and contribute to innovate VIZIO products.
The Sr. Staff Software Engineer is going to report to the supervisor directly, who is leading a team, and will be assigned tasks requiring a certain level of insight in terms of specific technology point of view.
What You Will Do
- Design and implement software related to TV and related cloud services.
- The Sr. Staff Engineer will manage a team and communicate designs and decisions within the team and will encourage new ideas and solutions.
- Be involved with every stage of the application software development process
- Code and build high quality mobile applications
- Drive the execution and delivery of features by collaborating with many cross functional teams, architects, product owners and engineer
- Make critical decisions that contribute to the success of the product
- Design APIs / SDKs used by other teams, both internal and external to the company.
- Participate in cross-functional coordination, planning, and reviews with leads from other engineering teams
- Be a multiplier and have a passion for team and team members’ success
- Maintain high morale and motivate the delivery team to go above and beyond
- Vocally advocate for technical excellence and helping the teams make good decisions
- Lead, coach, and mentor the software engineering team, through product discovery that helps identify and break our product goals into technical projects.
- Help continuously improve team productivity, code quality, tool, and technology adoption. Optimization and fine-tuning of the software application.
- Working in Agile mode, which includes attending the daily status meeting with the entire team.
- Responsible for resolving the complexity of business rule to the form which can be understood by Dev team
- Research and implement new design patterns & standards to improve the existing workflow for the development of the team.
- Collaborate within and across teams including QA, release management, operations and 3rd party partners to deliver a project on time.
- Research and implement a functional requirement using up to date technology and skills.
- Review the software design and implementations.
- Maintain the code clean, extensible and modular for cross-platform architecture.
- Support participation in various trade and industry events, including conferences and sponsored activities.
About You
- B.S. in relevant technical degree
- 7+ years of experience in full stack development using Python, NodeJS, JavaScript, React, TypeScript and SQL
- You know when to use an existing solution and when to build something new.
- Strong software development and design experience with Django, Django REST framework and Flask.
- At least 3 years’ experience with the AWS ecosystem, including tools, services, and resources that enable scalable, available, and distributed processing.
- Experience in designing and building scalable Microservices.
- Experience with messaging frameworks SQS, SNS
- Experience with serverless stack Lambda, API Gateway, Fargate, ECS and EKS
- Experience with writing complex SQL queries and analysis of data correlations.
- Experience working with No-SQL databases like Dynamo, Cassandra, Mongo; graph DBs like Neo4j; and in-memory DB like Redis, Elasticache is a plus
- Proficiency with software best practices (e.g., CI / CD using Git / AWS Code Commit, writing units tests, maintaining clear documentation, UML diagramming with tools like Lucid etc.)
- You are proactive in foreseeing issues and resolve them before they happen.
- Experience working with analytics and telemetry tools like GA4, Sumologic, New Relic etc. to draw insights.
- It should be a given that the role really needs excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Must be a team player participating in Agile ceremonies and collaborating with the team on sharing technical knowledge and capabilities, perform peer code reviews and provide technical guidance to junior team members.
About VIZIO
We are Beautifully Simple.
Headquartered in Irvine, California, VIZIO is a leading HDTV brand in America and the #1 Sound Bar Brand in America. VIZIO's mission is to deliver high performance, smarter products with the latest innovations at a significant savings that we can pass along to our consumers.
Our loyal following and industry-wide praise continues to grow as we redefine what it means to be smart.
VIZIO, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes. We will not pay fees to any third-party agency, outside recruiter or firm without a mutually agreed-upon contract and will not be responsible for any agency fees associated with unsolicited resumes.
Unsolicited resumes will be considered our property and will be processed accordingly.