Software Engineer II

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The Job

The Engineer II role is an accomplished software developer. He/she is an individual contributor, able to work with minimal supervision in an Agile development environment to build and deliver CNN apps, SDKs, and APIs. We need our engineers to be versatile and always eager to tackle new problems while working in a fun, collaborative and fast-paced environment.

The Android Mobile Engineer II is hands-on software developer, responsible for building, enhancing, and supporting CNN's Android mobile apps. He/she will be contributing to CNN"s engineering culture and best practices, and ensuring technical execution and release of CNN's mobile apps to end consumers. He/she partners with Product, Design and Delivery Leaders to help teams deliver on product initiatives and operational execution.

The Daily

• Build intuitive, simple and elegantly designed mobile apps that people want to use.
• Provide support and development of software tools and procedures to extend and enhance the core production pipeline.
• Work with multiple departments, including Product, Design, Delivery, Editorial and Engineering to implement CNN Digital consumer experience solutions and apps.
• Assist with troubleshooting production problems, root cause analysis, and debugging.
• Development and maintenance of existing production systems supporting CNN's digital ecosystem.
• Ensure software development follows industry best practices, policies and guidelines. Specifically, ensuring that technical solutions are in line with established CNN Digital strategy, standards in respect to architecture, security, corporate governance, coding standards, monitoring, logging, unit test, and service enablement.

• BS in computer science (or equivalent)
• Demonstrated understanding of software engineering life-cycle, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, general human factors/usability design standards, and implementation track record of project(s) for major business units or the enterprise.
• Minimum 2 years professional development environment.
• Strong foundation in programming fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms.
• Ability to develop new and innovative applications as well as maintaining existing code.
• Demonstrated Android Java and/or Kotlin development experience.
• Familiar with mobile devOps CI/CD tools and implementing best practices, including automation of code signing tools and automated tests. Preferred familiarity with Jenkins, Git, Maven/Gradle, and Appium.
• General familiarity with database technologies (SQL/RDBMS, NoSQL, GraphDB, etc.)
• Ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, with technical and non-technical cross-functional teams.
• Familiarity with Cloud Computing platforms such as Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure is a plus.