About this Role

Join the team at Fandom and work with great people (fans! Star Wars, Twin Peaks, RPG games). As a Software Engineer II on the Data Platform team, you will be responsible for solving engineering problems of the largest complexity and scale within your team. You will be expected to influence the overall vision and long-term engineering goals for the team aligned with the product vision. 

You Will...

• Lead the development of sub-components with limited supervision
• Actively contribute to the tactical planning for your team
• Help to enrich Fandom’s structured data with internal and external data sources
• Extend and maintain scalable systems written in Java, Python, Go, and PHP
• Responsible for the entire lifecycle of the work they deliver: development, testing, deployment, and maintenance
• Share knowledge through documentation and pull request comments
• Work effectively with a globally distributed team
• Learn new technologies, patterns, and processes as needed 
• Ensure a high level of quality in your deliverables
• Collaborate with your team to solve technical issues
• Deepen your technical knowledge in one or more areas of expertise

You Have...

• 3+ years of professional experience with web technologies (REST APIs, HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, etc.)
• Professional experience with database management systems (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra)
• Professional experience with ReactJS or another modern JavaScript web framework (Vue, Angular, Ember, etc.)
• Professional backend microservice experience (Java preferred) 
• 3+ years application development experience 
• Professional experience owning parts of a web-scale project from conception to production
• Experience with building automated tests (Jest, Karma, Jasmine, Mocha, etc.)

Bonus Points if You Have...

• Experience with performance and optimization problems at scale
• Experience working with a global team
• Experience with continuous integration tools (Jenkins, Travis, Github, etc) 
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production 
• Experience with ETL (data extraction, transformation, and loading)
• Experience with python