Software Engineer II

Job DescriptionJob Description 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, working on our data systems,you will help usto determine what 300M+ users are passionate about by contributing development of a real-time digital profile. The digital profiles that you help create will be the foundation for data science-drivenuser personas and personalized recommendations across the platform, at scale, and in real-time.You will report toour Staff Software Engineer.You willalso help us to determine what 32M+ user-created pages are focused on, how they connect to the Fandom community they belong to, and the other pages of the 400k+ communities in our network. With this knowledge,you willenableFandom to build the rich digital profiles mentioned above to build deeper and more engaging experiences for our users.What does a typical day look like for a software engineer? On some daysyou'llwrite code to ingest data from 3rd party sources and connect that to our internal data stores. On others,you'llwork on high throughput data ingestion pipelines to ensurereal timedigital profiles.You willalso beactivelyinvolved in sharing your knowledge through documentation, pull requests, and informal training sessions. And finally,you'lloften find yourself tuning and monitoring a production system running at scale.You Will... Lead the development of sub-componentsContribute to the tactical planning for your teamHelp enrich Fandom's structured data with our data sourcesExtend and maintain scalable systems written in Java, Python, Go, and PHPOversee the entire lifecycle of the work theydeliver: development, testing and maintenanceShare knowledge through documentation and pull request commentsWork with a globally distributed teamLearn new technologies, patterns, and processesWork with your team to solve technical issuesDeepen your technical knowledge in one or more areas of expertiseYou Have... BA/BS in Computer Scienceor related technical field or equivalent experience2 or more years of experience in software engineeringProficiency in Java or GoExperiencedesigning and implementingobject-oriented systemsRelational database design and SQL experienceAn understanding of RESTful APIsExperience delivering high-quality softwareJob Required Skills: Java, Golang