Senior AWS Software Developer, Sky

Salary not provided

React

AWS

TypeScript

JavaScript

Python

GraphQL

Mid and Senior level

London

Broadband and telecommunications company

Job no longer available

Broadband and telecommunications company

1001+ employees

B2CB2BEntertainmentTelecommunicationsMedia

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

React

AWS

TypeScript

JavaScript

Python

GraphQL

Mid and Senior level

London

1001+ employees

B2CB2BEntertainmentTelecommunicationsMedia

Company mission

To connect people with the very best entertainment, sports, news, arts and local, original content.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

You are a very confident AWS software developer – this is a must (AWS certification is a bonus)
Proven ability to refactor and write performant, secure and clean code
Expertise in working and following the best practices of using AWS Lambda functions
Existing experience with Javascript/Typescript
Knowledge of the event driven architecture and serverless framework
Experience in other serverless applications development using DynamoDB, and API Gateway (Good to have)
Existing experience or ability to very quickly pick up Javascript/Typescript
It will be nice if you have experience working with Python, React, Lambda, Serverless Framework, DynamoDB, S3, AppSync/GraphQL, API Gateway, Step Functions etc
Restless attitude and a drive to always make things better and quicker
Passion for technology and a fast pace of delivery
Experience working with CI/CD in an agile team

What the job involves

Develop excellent quality software
Participate in the full software lifecycle, including support and continuous integration
Contribute to the technical direction of the team
Provide guidance and mentoring to other developers on the team
Share and generate new ideas, provide constructive and useful feedback to peers
Work with internal Sky teams, external vendors and colleagues in Comcast in the US
Quickly build prototypes and work with top brains in ML across the industry

Application process

You could help invent experiences in: Media, Sports personalization and Discovery!
Join our new team! Build innovative applications using AI/ML to make new products that will be the future of media. We have a number of projects to work that all share the same goal: use AI/ML techniques to improve aspects of media consumption
The Innovation and AI team’s mission is to differentiate the Sky experience by making it more personal, more interactive and more engaging than ever before. As one of the first permanent team members you will have an awesome opportunity to join a speedboat environment and enable new ways for our customers to discover and enjoy the amazing content that Sky offers
One of the projects we have recently launched creates a new experience for sports fans – personalised game highlights. We have a system set up for football and cricket, and we want to extend it to support multiple sport types in the near future. Another example is related to performing content analysis on our movies and entertainment programs where we need to detect and record various semantic entities and events to drive workflow automation and content discovery. There is more in the pipeline and the roadmap is growing every week!

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Our take

Sky formed through the merger of Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting in 1990, making it the UK's largest pay-TV company. After the acquisition of Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland in 2014, Sky Group was formed, transforming the UK company into Europe's leading entertainment and media group.

With the recent success of their original content, Sky doubled their investment into this space by 2024 with a brand new movie and TV studio being built. This is expected to create an additional £3 billion of production investment in UK creative sector in the first five years alone.

Sky's streaming service, Now TV, was launched in 2012 to compete with the rising tide of Netflix and, more recently, with Amazon's Prime Video. With pay-TV subscriptions dropping and the video streaming industry expected to grow by a further 20% by 2027, Sky has remained competitive by offering a range of deals, partnering with Netflix, and developing its own TV - Sky Glass, as it aims to keep up with consumer trends.