The Analytics & Experiences group (AXP) is part of Comcast Cable’s Technology & Product (T&P) organization and serves the larger company with critical business insights tooling and infrastructure. The Sift platform which is integral in gaining and visualizing reliable insights needs your help to build out its backend API and monitoring systems. You will work with other engineers and analysts with backgrounds in big-data processing and visualization. Job Description. Core Responsibilities. Analyz... more details
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Job Summary
The Analytics & Experiences group (AXP) is part of Comcast Cable’s Technology & Product (T&P) organization and serves the larger company with critical business insights tooling and infrastructure.
The Sift platform which is integral in gaining and visualizing reliable insights needs your help to build out its backend API and monitoring systems. You will work with other engineers and analysts with backgrounds in big-data processing and visualization.
Job Description
Core Responsibilities
- Analyzes and determines integration needs.
- Evaluates and plans software designs, test results and technical manuals.
- Reviews literature, patents and current practices relevant to the solution of assigned projects.
- Programs new software, web applications and supports new applications under development and the customization of current applications.
- Edits and reviews technical requirements documentation.
- Works with Quality Assurance team to determine if applications fit specification and technical requirements.
- Displays knowledge of engineering methodologies, concepts, skills and their application in the area of specified engineering specialty.
- Displays knowledge of and ability to apply, process design and redesign skills.
- Displays in-depth knowledge of and ability to apply, project management skills.
- Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
- Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) and overtime as necessary.
- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
- Writing production-quality, tested code.
- Ownership of code, responsibility for balancing functionality, efficiency, development time and readability, as well as robustness
- Producing technical designs and documentation at varying levels of granularity
- Collaborating with our quality assurance and technical operations teams to provide outstanding customer service
- Resisting the accrual of “technical debt” in our systems.
- Building proof-of-concept applications or conducting research experiments
- Staying educated on technical developments and tools necessary for the design and maintenance of complex, distributed platforms.
Qualifications
- BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical field
- 3+ years of development experience in a combination of Golang and Python or Java
- AWS cloud with Lambda / Cloudfront / API Gateway experience a plus
- Docker experience with building/running/optimizing a plus
- Experience developing backend applications
- Experience with distributed messaging (Kinesis, Kafka) a plus
- Experience with SQL, noSQL databases (Redis / Elastic Search / DynamoDB) desired
- Knowledge of container orchestration (Kubernetes) a plus
- Strong error handling habits and experience with monitoring tools desired
- Experience with continuous integration, test-driven-development, automated unit and integration testing
- Experience analyzing large datasets desired
- Hands-on experience developing RESTful web services desired
- Experience using GIT versioning tool required
- Experience with Agile development methodologies and practices (refactoring, TDD, pair programming)
- UNIX/Linux background: BASH scripting and performance analysis a plus
- Experience with various data interchange and representation formats such as JSON, XML, Avro, and Protobuf
Employees at all levels are expected to:
- Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
- Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
- Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
- Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
- Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
- Drive results and growth.
- Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.
- Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.
Disclaimer:
- This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.
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Education
Bachelor's Degree
While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.
Certifications (if applicable)
Relative Work Experience
2-5 Years
Comcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
