Job Description

Position Summary:

The NBA runs numerous web sites and digital products that generate fan interest around the world. League Pass is one of the NBA's best-in-class products available in over 215+ countries that allows fans live and archive access to games from the preseason through the NBA Finals. Whether it be for the NBA, WNBA, G League or 2K League millions of people visit sites, engage with mobile apps, and view our content across multiple platforms. Continuing its role as a digital leader in media, the Digital Product Development team will develop and deliver a number of strategic digital product initiatives for the NBA, NBA 2K League, WNBA and G League. We are looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer to produce scalable software solutions. You'll be part of a cross-functional team that's responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment. As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you should be comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks and third-party libraries. You should also be a team player with a knack for visual design and utility. The candidate for this growth position should be an expert in their field and help lead the team strategically in achieving our goals.

Major Responsibility:

Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions
Where applicable, design client-side and server-side architecture and build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
Provide technical and developmental mentorship to subordinates
Partnering with Product and Content Teams, gather business requirements and design technical solutions to meet those needs
Liaise with, and provide written feedback to technical and business constituents as necessary
Set coding standards and help drive the strategic technical direction of our engineering efforts; develop systems to meet or exceed business KPIs Understand and modify existing systems as business requirements and consumer behaviors change
Develop system test criteria and participate in systems testing
Respond to, isolate and resolve programming problems
Provide after-hours and weekend support for production systems when needed

Required Skills/Knowledge:

Proven experience as a Full Stack Software Engineer or similar role
Experience developing desktop and mobile applications
Familiarity with common stacks Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache) and UI/UX design
Knowledge of Content Delivery Networks (e.g. Akamai) and CI/CD stack Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, JSON, XML)
Knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e.g. PHP, Node, Python) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Node.js, React, Vue.js)
Strong knowledge of ES6+ and experience with asynchronous operations Strong knowledge of web server technologies (e.g. Apache) and web proxies (e.g. Varnish)
Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services inclusive of Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, EC2, auto-scaling and other micro-services
Knowledge of Windows Server 2012 (and up) and how to remotely manage Windows server instances
Familiarity with Adobe suite, specifically Adobe After Effects CC 2018 (and up), and its use of a rendering CLI (e.g. aerender).
Experience with Unit Testing (e.g. Jest, Mocha, Chai) Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure inclusive of Azure Dev Ops, API management, Virtual Machines Excellent written and verbal skills

Education:

BS in computer science, electrical engineering or a related technical discipline.

Valid through: 3/18/2021