Software Developer

Fox Corporation•Los Angeles, CA

5d•$349,442 - $384,386•Remote

About The Position

Fox Corporation Under the FOX banner, we produce and distribute content through some of the world’s leading and most valued brands, including: FOX News Media, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations and Tubi Media Group. We empower a diverse range of creators to imagine and develop culturally significant content, while building an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise and strategic thinking. Software Developer (Fox Cable Network Services, LLC; Los Angeles, California): Write performance rendering code that can work on low-spec devices with as little memory usage as possible; build innovative product features to help our users discover and consume content; work on our open source shared user interface (UI) components library; improve the video playback experience across different platforms and utilize innovations in browsers (Progressive Web Apps (PWA)); build infrastructure for staging and production; optimize the data processing pipeline; improve backend service monitoring and optimization to decrease API response time and increase system availability; build next generation of infrastructure as code, making it reproducible and durable; maintain production components, debug, test, and fix concealed issues, which affect production services; investigate, design, and develop the next generation machine learning data pipeline to provide an error free and vast data source for the machine learning team to build better user experiences; use strong communication skills (verbal and written) to work with the product and design teams to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and translate these into a pragmatic and effective technical solution. The position permits telecommuting pursuant to company policy.

Requirements

Developing Content Management System features (including planning, analyzing, designing, developing, implementing, testing, and maintaining Matrix and User Device Services) to enable users to access content
Programs or scripts using programming languages (including JavaScript, React, HTML and CSS) to optimize video viewing experience
Developing code to improve video playback across platforms
Working with open-source shared user interface (UI) to develop and maintain content facing application programming interface (API)
Operating browser internals (including networking and Rendering Cycle)
Building infrastructure to develop video and operate video playback
Programming using Typescript

Responsibilities

Write performance rendering code that can work on low-spec devices with as little memory usage as possible
Build innovative product features to help our users discover and consume content
Work on our open source shared user interface (UI) components library
Improve the video playback experience across different platforms and utilize innovations in browsers (Progressive Web Apps (PWA))
Build infrastructure for staging and production
Optimize the data processing pipeline
Improve backend service monitoring and optimization to decrease API response time and increase system availability
Build next generation of infrastructure as code, making it reproducible and durable
Maintain production components, debug, test, and fix concealed issues, which affect production services
Investigate, design, and develop the next generation machine learning data pipeline to provide an error free and vast data source for the machine learning team to build better user experiences
Use strong communication skills (verbal and written) to work with the product and design teams to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and translate these into a pragmatic and effective technical solution