Principal Software Engineer

November 22

🏄 California – Remote

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💵 $140.8k - $255.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

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DIRECTV

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Telecommunications • Media

DIRECTV is a leading provider of satellite TV and internet-based television services in the United States. They offer a variety of television packages that include a wide range of channels, premium networks, sports, and movies. Customers can choose between satellite TV or streaming via existing internet services without the need for a satellite dish. DIRECTV is known for its extensive sports programming, including exclusive access to NFL Network and NFL RedZone, as well as regional sports networks. Additionally, DIRECTV provides services for both residential and business customers and offers a variety of deals and promotions, including discounts and reward cards for new customers.

10,000+ employees

Founded 1994

📡 Telecommunications

📱 Media

📋 Description

• Work with business leaders to understand execution priorities and how they result in business value; ensure that developed capabilities meet desired business outcomes. • Participate in feasibility and cost/benefit discussions to guide prioritization and feature roadmap creation. • Oversee technical delivery and devise approaches to implement enhancements that efficiently take advantage of existing platform capabilities where possible; consult on application architecture; deliver capabilities that are economical to sustain in the long term. • Drive front-end technical excellence — architect and deliver performant, scalable, and reusable UI components and frameworks that ensure seamless user experiences across devices and browsers. • Champion web performance optimization through metrics-driven improvements, including lazy loading, bundle optimization, caching strategies, and efficient state management. • Develop delivery plans that anticipate risks and mitigate them early. • Lead delivery teams to work with urgency and focus to deliver quality enhancements at a high velocity; remove barriers, negotiate dependencies, and manage resourcing concerns. • Ensure that teams are operating in a standardized, measurable way; monitor and manage agile delivery metrics; drive adoption of modern delivery practices and DIRECTV standards. • Understand backlog demands and manage vendor capacity and budgets to ensure resourcing is in place when needed, and that resources are efficiently utilized. • Execute quality management processes (e.g. testing) to ensure solutions developed are performant and meet business requirements. • Identify needed nonfunctional requirements (performance, alerting/monitoring, capacity, compliance, security, etc.) and ensure they are addressed. • Prepare and provide updates to leadership.

🎯 Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, computer science, or a related field is preferred and highly recommended. • 7+ years of experience in software engineering and the design, development of complex systems, including as a team lead. • Experience working in multiple Agile methodologies (scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and familiarity with the tooling used to coordinate this work (mainly Jira, Jira Align). • Strong expertise and proven experience in front-end technologies and frameworks (e.g. React, Angular, Vue) with a strong emphasis on building reusable components, modular architectures, and maintainable design systems. • Proven experience delivering high-performance, accessible, and responsive web applications using modern performance profiling and optimization techniques. • Strong understanding of web-specific processes and technologies, including requirements, design/UX, accessibility, content management systems, SEO, clickstream analytics, and tag management. • Robust knowledge of several programming languages (e.g. Java, C++, Python, etc.). • Expertise in modern delivery and deployment practices, such as CI/CD, quality automation, test-driven development, blue/green release strategies, etc. • Experience developing for and deploying to cloud environments. • Strong written and oral communication skills. • Demonstrated judgment and decisiveness in a fast-paced, changing work environment. • Leadership, organizational, and delegation skills to break large projects down into milestones and assign tasks best suited to team members, and to coach team members.

🏖️ Benefits

• DIRECTV's compensation structure is designed to be market-competitive and fully supports efforts to attract and retain employees. • Provides a competitive total compensation package including salary and benefits. • May require a background check due to job duties requiring routine access to DIRECTV and DIRECTV customer’s proprietary data.