You should enjoy researching information and digging deep to solve problems Responsibilities will include investigating and prototyping early technologies, defining and developing engaging new applications using core technologies, preparing status reports, and demonstrating to teams and project partners This role is a software development position Your primary focus will be helping to define and build frontend and backend web and existing platforms that interact with multiple cloud-based tools P... more details
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Software Engineer II
Los Angeles, CA
Contract Length: 12 months
Responsibilities:
You should enjoy researching information and digging deep to solve problems
Responsibilities will include investigating and prototyping early technologies, defining and developing engaging new applications using core technologies, preparing status reports, and demonstrating to teams and project partners
This role is a software development position
Your primary focus will be helping to define and build frontend and backend web and existing platforms that interact with multiple cloud-based tools
Participate in designing and developing user experiences that delight the customer, build exciting new initiatives, solve interesting and unique problems, grow technical insight, and collaborate across functional boundaries in defining the architecture, APIs, and overall design
Research available technologies in the markets conduct evaluations, and collaborate with the team
Application operations and production support of internal and public-facing services within an AWS cloud environment, ensuring availability, resiliency, scalability, and performance.
Identify areas for operational process improvement and automation. Drive the hands-on development of scripts and tools to automate these processes within our environment.
Collaborate and partner with other teams that specialize in areas such as data services, CICD, and platform hosting to inspire changes and ensure efficient end-to-end system performance and resiliency across all back-end services within PlayStation.
Occasionally provide rotational on-call support where you’ll respond, detect, triage, and resolve production incidents.
Required Qualifications:
BS or MS in Computer Science, or comparable experience
Demonstrated ability with full-stack software development
Excellent programming skills in Java and the Spring Framework including Spring Boot
Experience building dedicated and scalable web services
Ability to build user interfaces and components that are modular, testable, and maintainable
Strong JavaScript and jQuery skills and knowledge and working experience with one or more modern JavaScript frameworks like React.js and RDUX
Experience with Node.js application development
Experience with one or more NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB, Redis and MySQL or other relational database systems.
Experience and comfort in building cloud-native applications
Experience with AWS and AWS Infrastructure, Platform, and Services
Desired Skills and Attributes:
Experience with version control concepts and Git
Experience and comfort working in an agile, and fast-paced environment
A strong sense of ownership for the end product and your work
Passionate about writing high-quality and well-architected code
Comfortable voicing new insights and challenging others
Ready to have fun working with a high-energy team
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The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.
$145,700—$218,500 USD
Equal Opportunity Statement:
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