Backend Engineer (Python- customer facing API's) - REMOTE

Universal Ads, a part of Comcast, enables any brand, of any size, to seamlessly make and buy commercials across premium video reaching new qualified audiences at scale. Universal Ads combines premium and brand-safe video content directly from the most influential media companies with the ease and familiarity of social ad buying. It is your one-stop shop for high-quality video ads delivering performance and unmatched scale.

Job Summary

Responsible for designing, developing, implementing and analyzing product specifications for application programming interface and data layers across a wide range of software products and platforms. Within a squad of developers, a backend engineer will be a technical expert on several features, application programming interfaces, and practices. Works closely with product owners and work with developers across multiple teams within the same domain. Integrates knowledge of business and functional priorities. Acts as a key contributor in a complex and crucial environment. May lead teams or projects and shares expertise.

Job Description

Required Skills:

• 3+ Years of experience building/managing customer facing API's using Python
• AWS experience
• Experience with nextJS and React

Core Responsibilities
Analyzes user and product requirements to design system flow and work processes.
Develops data storage models based on functional requirements.
Defines application programming interface access patterns and service integration touchpoints.
Partners with quality assurance to document integration and test plan.
Follows software development life cycle to implement new features through substantial programming effort.
Creates integration tests that run with every code commit.
Develops automation of service consumption.
Defines and iterates on configuration parameters to allow software and services to best meet system needs.
Builds out monitoring and alerting for live application programming interfaces and services.
Repairs, restores, and repaves backend services.
Maintains operation stability and corporate standards.
Works with security team to follow best practices and close vulnerabilities.
Documents and maintains defects and enhancements in the company issue management system.
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) as necessary.
Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
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.
Support a culture of inclusion in how you work and lead.
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.
 

Skills

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), API Design, Docker (Software), Git, Prioritization, Python (Programming Language)

Compensation

National Pay Range: $96,600.92 USD-$226,408.42 USD Illinois Pay Range: $102,638.48 USD - $199,239.41 USD Colorado Pay Range: $108,676.04 USD - $208,295.74 USD Hawaii Pay Range: $126,788.71 USD - $190,183.07 USD Washington DC Pay Range: $138,863.83 USD - $208,295.74 USD Maryland Pay Range: $114,713.60 USD - $208,295.74 USD Minnesota Pay Range: $108,676.04 USD - $190,183.07 USD New York Pay Range: $114,713.60 USD - $226,408.42 USD Washington Pay Range: $108,676.04 USD - $217,352.08 USD California Pay Range: $108,676.04 USD - $226,408.42 USD New Jersey Pay Range: $120,751.16 USD - $217,352.08 USD Vermont Pay Range: $114,713.60 USD - $181,126.73 USD

Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that