Sr. Software Engineer - Web Applications and Backend Services

Sling Media, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Echostar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), is a leading digital lifestyle company offering consumer services and products that are a natural extension of today’s digital way-of-life. Sling Media’s product family includes the internationally acclaimed, Emmy award-winning Slingbox that allows consumers to watch and control their living room television shows at any time, from any location, using PCs, Macs, PDAs and smartphones and the revolutionary new SlingCatcher, a universal media player that seamlessly delivers broadcast TV, Internet video and personal content to the TV. Sling Media is also the company behind the video entertainment web site, Sling.com, offering consumers a wide variety of popular TV shows, movies and other entertainment free for viewing online or on the TV using SlingCatcher.

Key Responsibilities

As lead engineer, you will be responsible for design, development and deployment of highly available and scalable, state of the art Web services and Multimedia Portals. You will be expected to technically mentor the junior members of the team and lead them to solve complex programming challenges.

Responsibilities

• Define and evangelize best practices in clean coding standards, and processes.
• Work with the development team to manage day-to-day technical development activities by leading architectural decisions and technical design/specifications.
• Be a driving force for technical projects
• Results that benefits the company.
• Define and ensure adherence to architecture standards.
• Strong teamwork, interpersonal, and communication (oral and written) skills are required for interaction with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Design and architect solutions to meet our business requirements.
• Provide technical guidance for the entire product life cycle.
• Be able to focus and work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Participate as a lead within the Technology organization.
• Stay up to date on new technologies

• Experience in handling multiple concurrent projects developing total solutions and interacting with other key business functions within the organization.
• Experience in measuring/optimizing application performance, overall application quality & health
• Experience with established software development methodologies, including Agile (SCRUM, XP, etc.).
• Experience with J2EE technologies stack
• Expertise on SAML V2
• Have done real time project on Federated identity management with Identity & Service provider model using SAML
• Hands on experience with open source frameworks: Hibernate 3+, Spring 2+
• Extensive knowledge of SOA.
• Solid understanding of OO concepts, design patterns & AOP
• Hands on experience on Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Working knowledge with RESTful Web Services
• Experience and sound knowledge in various representation schemes like JSON, Atom, RSS, XML Schema
• Knowledge of scalability issues common to highly trafficked websites.
• Hands on experience with unit, integration, functional & automated testing
• Strong background in a variety of technologies and best practices in software development.
• Experience in interacting with QA team
• Hands on experience or sound knowledge on open source web application framework Grails and Groovy language is a strong plus
• Knowledge for implementing collective intelligence for real-world web applications is a plus

Education

Bachelors in Engineering, Computer Science or related fields preferred.