Backend Engineer (Python customer facing API's) REMOTE

Job description

Universal Ads, a part of Comcast, enables any brand, of any size, to seamlessly make and buy commercials across premium video reaching new qualified audiences at scale.

Universal Ads combines premium and brand-safe video content directly from the most influential media companies with the ease and familiarity of social ad buying.

It is your one-stop shop for high-quality video ads delivering performance and unmatched scale.

**Job Summary**

Responsible for designing, developing, implementing and analyzing product specifications for application programming interface and data layers across a wide range of software products and platforms.

Within a squad of developers, a backend engineer will be a technical expert on several features, application programming interfaces, and practices.

Works closely with product owners and work with developers across multiple teams within the same domain.

Integrates knowledge of business and functional priorities.

Acts as a key contributor in a complex and crucial environment.

May lead teams or projects and shares expertise.
**Job Description**

**Required Skills:**

+ 3+ Years of experience building/managing customer facing API's using Python
+ AWS experience
+ Experience with nextJS and React

**Core Responsibilities**
Analyzes user and product requirements to design system flow and work processes.
Develops data storage models based on functional requirements.
Defines application programming interface access patterns and service integration touchpoints.
Partners with quality assurance to document integration and test plan.
Follows software development life cycle to implement new features through substantial programming effort.
Creates integration tests that run with every code commit.
Develops automation of service consumption.
Defines and iterates on configuration parameters to allow software and services to best meet system needs.
Builds out monitoring and alerting for live application programming interfaces and services.
Repairs, restores, and repaves backend services.
Maintains operation stability and corporate standards.
Works with security team to follow best practices and close vulnerabilities.
Documents and maintains defects and enhancements in the company issue management system.
Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
Regular, consistent and punctual attendance.

Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary.
Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Employees at all levels are expected to:

Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
Drive results and growth.
Support a culture of inclusion in how you work and lead.
Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

Disclaimer:

This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role.

It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Comcast is an equal opportunity workplace.

We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Comcast will consider for employment applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the requirements of applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Please note that federal state, or local laws and regulations may restrict or prohibit Comcast from hiring individuals convicted of certain crimes.

Additionally, an applicant’s criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the job duties of this position, which may result in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment.

**Skills:**

Git; API Design; Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2); Prioritization; Docker (Software); Python (Programming Language)

**Salary:**

National Pay Range: $96,600.92 USD-$226,408.42 USD Illinois Pay Range: $102,638.48 USD - $199,239.41 USD Colorado Pay Range: $108,676.04 USD - $208,295.74 USD Hawaii Pay Range: $126,788.71 USD - $190,183.07 USD Washington DC Pay Range: $138,863.83 USD - $208,295.74 USD Maryland Pay Range: $114,713.60 USD - $208,295.74 USD Minnesota Pay Range: $108,676.04 USD - $190,183.07 USD New York Pay Range: $114,713.60 USD - $226,408.42 USD Washington Pay Range: $108,676.04 USD - $217,352.08 USD California Pay Range: $108,676.04 USD - $226,408.42 USD New Jersey Pay Range: $120,751.16 USD - $217,352.08 USD Vermont Pay Range: $114,713.60 USD - $181,126.73 USD

Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience.

The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.

The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.

Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work.

Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus.

Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees.

We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most.

That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality – to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life.

Please visit the compensation and benefits summary (https://jobs.comcast.com/benefits) on our careers site for more details.

**Education**

Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

**Relevant Work Experience**

7-10 Years

**Job Family Group:** Engineering

Required Skill Profession

Other General