Principal Software Engineer (Backend Engineer)

At Fandom, this Principal Engineer rolereports tothe VP of Engineering and works with the Data Platform team.you willbe a technical leader who builds engagement andmonetizesthe experiences from both an architectural and systems design perspective, for over 300 million monthly users across Fandom sites and applications.You willbe a top technical leader throughout all of Fandom.

• Have a Broad Technical Impact
  • You willoversee this technical area from an architectural and systems design perspective, leading other engineers, and working side-by-side with them to discover and implement solutions.
  • You willbe a top technical leader throughout all of Fandom and communicate across a variety of audiences is imperative.
• Executewith the Future in Mind
  • You willbe one that must always think about the future, not overbuilding for it, and finding that right balance of developing solutions for current issues while not over-engineering for issues we are not sure we'll need to solve for
  • Always have a plan for potential future issues and growth opportunities.
  • Stayup to datewith all applicable new technology innovations happening in the industry, and know when is the right time to bring new thoughts and potential infrastructure changes into discussions, with an understanding of the trade-offs and potential impact on overall tech-debt.
• Be Accountable
  • Provide technical leadership for impactful projects that involve multiple teams and span multiple technologies and systems
  • Lead large projects or large pieces of projects depending on the project scale
  • Proactivity identify risks and opportunities to improve our processes and technologies
  • Influence other senior leaders on engineering strategy
• LeadKeyInitiatives
  • Work with the Data Science team tobuild and scaleRecommendations for TV, Movie, and Games both inline in the User's experience and as stand-alone pages
  • Stream user pageview and action-event data into a system that develops a dynamic Profile of each user to be used to Personalize their experiences in many ways
  • Scale out our Gamification systems to encourage users to develop high-quality content and be rewarded for their efforts
  • Use all of the above to find new ways to monetize the users' experiences through Affiliate, E-Commerce, Display, and hopefully many more types of future revenue streams

• 10+ years of software engineering experiencewith a track-record of back-enddevelopment, designand architecture
• Expertise in a modern form of 1 or more of the following languages:Java, Python, Golang, Kotlin
• Designing and architecting scaled-up back-end systems(Kafka, MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Neo4j), with expertise in both relational and nonrelational systems and when it is necessary to choose each one
• A high degree of proficiency in how tooptimizefull-stack web systems, in cached environments.
• Experience building large userpersonalization, recommendationand search-basedsystemswith an average monthly base of at least 50-100M monthly users
• Deep experience as an expert and technical leader for large Engineering teams.
• Experience explaining complicated technical plans to a variety of audiences.
• A mindset that is business-oriented, collaborative, and comfortable with mentoring others

• A passion for fandoms and an interest in building products for fan communities around the world.
• Contributed to open-source projects