Software Developer

Software Developer

Our Fortune 500 Media Client is seeking a Software Developer for a long-term contract engagement. The Software Developer will work on our client's team that's developing their next generation, cloud-based content distribution pipeline in AWS that is being used to distribute media files to partners worldwide. The role will be engaged, end-to-end, from understanding product goals and roadmaps through to solution design, architecture, build, integration, deployment, and support. They will be responsible for the full SDLC of a software product that provides transformation of media files and content distribution services to its clients through a well-defined single point of integration for leveraging the client's globally distributed media storage and transcoding capabilities. There will be an opportunity to immediately impact projects including migrating facility-based workloads into a cloud-native, serverless platform and integrating third-party SaaS/PaaS solutions.

Due to client requirement, applicants must be willing and able to work on a W2 basis. For our W2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Pay: $60 - $65/hr W2

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain highly scalable, high performance and highly available systems.
• Write well tested, efficient, and readable code. The code should also be strongly structured with a view to reusability.
• Ensure that all deliverables follow best practices around source control, CICD.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Ensure that solutions are in line with the other deliverables of the team and produce documentation so that others learn from and contribute to the work.
• Attend and contribute to meetings; complete tasks as assigned by supervisor.

Experience Requirements

• 5+ years writing production code in Python
• 5+ years production experience with AWS. Certifications a big plus
• Proficiency in designing and interacting with relational databases (SQL Server). Experience with NoSQL databases (DynamoDB) a big plus.
• Proficiency building serverless systems with ephemeral compute (e.g. AWS Lambda, ECS) and orchestration (e.g. AWS Step Functions).
• Nice to have - experience with AI/ML e.g. developing integrations with LLMs and using AI tools for software development.
• Proficiency building event-driven architectures with message queues, topics.
• Proficiency identifying applicability of design patterns and implementing them.
• Solid understanding of source control (git), unit testing, test driven development, CICD.
• Knowledge of defining, packaging, and deploying cloud resources. Serverless Framework (sls) or CDK strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with the agile process (stand ups, planning, estimating, and demoing)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with media file container formats, media/video engineering a plus

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline or equivalent experience.