Full Job DescriptionIt takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of 1 billion. Nearly half of Verizon Media employees are building the code and platforms that help us achieve that. Whether you’re looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process 4 trillion data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business—and the world. Want in? As Verizon’s media unit, our brands like Yahoo, TechCrunch and more help people stay informed and entertained, communicate and transact, while creating new ways for advertisers and partners to connect. With technologies like XR, AI, machine-learning, and 5G, we’re transforming media for tomorrow, too. We’re creators and coders, dreamers and doers creating what’s next in content, advertising and technology.
Job Description
Verizon Media is a leading provider of media and technology brands, reaching over a billion people around the world. Verizon Media’s Platforms Engineering organization creates modern, secure, and efficient software platforms to power all of Verizon Media’s brands at scale. Our Identity and User Data platforms for consumers and businesses lead the industry in trust and security. Our computer operating systems, languages, build systems, and developer tools drive technical excellence and developer productivity. Our Monitoring, Payments, Cloud Platforms, Mobile SDKs, and many other systems accelerate growth and innovation.
Identity platforms at Verizon Media provide modern, secure Identity offerings for consumer and business that interact with Verizon Media systems. The scale at which the Identity systems operate is unmatched on the Internet, with billions of logins per day, reaching hundreds of millions of users. We power the best products on the Internet and bring users together to form communities and follow the news that matters to them.
Responsibilities:
Collaborate with user experience designers, product managers, and other talented engineers to deliver new features, enhancements, and bug fixes
Grow in a culture of learning through design discussions and code reviews
Write high quality performant code in Java and similar languages on Linux platform. Write unit tests, functional tests and end-to-end integration tests
Define and Implement highly efficient APIs
Be part of an agile scrum team and demonstrate constant progress
Seek opportunities in our day-to-day workflow to improve quality and efficiency from ideation to deployment
This is a backend development position with some data-science opportunity mixed in
Minimum Qualifications:
BS, MS, PhD in Computer Science or a related major, or equivalent experience
Good understanding of algorithms, data structures, performance optimization techniques, and object-oriented programming
Development experience in Java and/or C software programming languages on Linux platforms
Excellent communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills
Preferred Qualifications:
3+ years development experience writing and reviewing code daily in a team environment
Familiarity with Web services and web technology stacks
Experience in mobile development in iOS and Android is a plus
Exposure to data processing with distributed computing (Hadoop, Hive, Spark, etc.)
About Verizon Media:
Verizon Media is a values-led company committed to building brands people love. We reach over one billion people around the world with a dynamic house of 50+ media and technology brands. A global leader in digital and mobile, Verizon Media is shaping the future of media.
Verizon Media is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Verizon Media is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form ( https://www.verizonmedia.com/careers/contact-us.html ) or call 408-336-1409. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
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