Senior Software Engineer

Company Summary

EchoStar is reimagining the future of connectivity. Our business reach spans satellite television service, live-streaming and on-demand programming, smart home installation services, mobile plans and products.

Today, our brands include Boost Mobile, DISH TV, Gen Mobile, Hughes and Sling TV.

Department Summary

Our Technology teams challenge the status quo and reimagine capabilities across industries. Whether through research and development, technology innovation or solution engineering, our people play vital roles in connecting consumers with the products and platforms of tomorrow.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Our team works closely with engineering and technical broadcast teams to learn their business, and with that knowledge, we create or enhance software systems that empower those teams. The software we provide is focused on the real-time monitoring of over 5900 TV channels and the systems involved in producing and delivering a DVB television service. As a teammate on our agile software team, you will participate in the design, creation, and support of these systems.

• The validation of over 400 MPEG transport streams, including bit rate, CC errors, and other content issues
• The monitoring of the satellite RF broadcast transports
• The acquisition of our broadcast TV channels and its transport to remote monitoring centers
• The tracking of outages and issues that occur on our broadcast channels

• Continually increase your knowledge of the uplink operations and seek out opportunities where our team can provide additional value
• Work with a small team of software engineers to develop and maintain software solutions
• Participate in the development, deployment, and support of software to implement the solutions, including an on-call rotation
• Participate in design discussions, retrospectives, and empower the team to find solutions to complex engineering challenges
• Mentor and provide guidance to the other members of the software engineering team
• Ensure best practices are followed through the entire software development process
• Define software architecture best practices and ensure that they are upheld
• Lead the software architecture design process and perform value benefit analysis

• Bachelor or Master's degree, preferably in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical (STEM) field, or an equivalent amount of education and experience
• Requires 4 - 6 years of experience in software development using Java, C#, Erlang, Elixir, or other related languages

• Able to lead the software architecture and design process
• Able to lead design discussions with other members of the team
• The ability to work with business stakeholders, capture requirements, and design solutions that meet their needs
• Mentor junior members of the team on software architecture and design
• Experience building scalable software using modern software practices
• The ability and discipline to write clean and highly performant code
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to take on difficult engineering challenges
• The ability to work with minimal direction and complete tasks in a timely manner
• The ability to keep abreast of technologies and paradigms and recognize when they can benefit the business and the software team
• The ability to learn and work with various programming languages and platforms as needed
• Understanding of distributed software systems, asynchronous messaging, and RESTful Web Services
• Working knowledge of digital broadcasting technologies like DVB, MPEG2 or MPEG4
• Familiarity with the agile software development methodology
• Comfortable with Linux and Windows server administration
• Comfortable with microservice architectures and containerized environments