Software Development Engineer I

Discovery’s Stockholm Engineering team shipped the core services of Discovery’s growing streaming video platform. We are now a hub for a growing global engineering group of hundreds of software engineers. We are looking for technically deep, analytical software engineers to join our growing Stockholm team. If your interest lies in building highly scalable container-based services, then this may be the team for you.
As television and media habits change, our mission remains true to the principles that founded Discovery – every day we seek to ignite people’s curiosity to engage, entertain and enlighten the world around them through amazing viewing experiences.
The Direct to Consumer Group is a technology company within the Discovery brand. We are building a global streaming video platform (OTT), and a suite of applications to support all of our network’s brands globally. We are building modern container-based micro-services operated on AWS. Our platform covers everything from search, catalog, video transcoding, personalization, to global subscriptions, and really much more. We build user experiences ranging from classic lean-back viewing to interactive learning applications. We build for connected TVs, web, mobile phones, tablets, and consoles for a large footprint of Discovery-owned networks around the world.
We are hiring a back-end software development engineers to join our Content Metadata team in Stockholm.
About the team: Content Metadata
We are the engineering team for Content Metadata at Discovery.
Today we are 8 engineers with various backgrounds and a passion for building the next generation streaming platform using new and emerging technologies.
We are a talented and autonomous team at the heart of Discovery's global streaming platform, building microservices that power streaming services for many brands across the world: discovery+, EurosportPlayer, Motortrend, and more. Sounds interesting? We are looking for more colleagues to join our team. Is it you?
We are creative dreamers, global, quick and agile, purposeful, doers, one team, consumer obsessed and we do the right thing.
We are looking for you to join us! /Jens and the Content Metadata team.
What can you expect?
We hire the very best and brightest talent who are enthusiastic and passionate to fulfill the company’s mission of empowering people to explore their world and satisfy their curiosity. You influence your team’s strategy and contribute significantly to team planning. You show good judgment making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs. You are a collaborative leader that makes other engineers and team members around you more productive, by sharing your knowledge, and helping to tie-break key technical decisions.


At discovery+ you build it, own it, and release what you create. This provides you with complete ownership of your professional development. We have an exciting year in front of us with both international expansions as well as huge sporting events such as Allsvenskan and the Olympics. We’re currently looking for engineers to work with our backend services. These services supply all of Discovery's users around the world with subscriptions and allow them to watch all our fantastic content.


- 15 million subscribers and growing fast
- Global platform in 4 continents
- Over 1000+ reqs / second
- Greenfield with no legacy, see for yourself


Sounds exciting?
Preferred Skills
Proficient in Java and a few other languages.
Persistence and caching solutions such as PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, Caffeine.
Micro-service-based architectures for interservice communication.
Asynchronous, non-blocking, functional programming and experience implementation with frameworks such as Spring WebFlux, vert.x
Usage and deep understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.
Experience in building, operating, and truly owning services. Implementing alerting, metrics, and logging.



discovery+ has over 15 million subscribers worldwide and is growing fast. Discovery Communications also owns the rights to the Olympic Games 2018 - 2024. Read more on our Tech Hub.
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