Senior API Developer

Company Summary

DISH, an EchoStar company, has been reimagining the future of connectivity for more than 40 years. Our business reach spans satellite television service, live-streaming and on-demand programming, smart home installation services, mobile plans and products and now we are building America’s First Smart Network™.

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

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

This Senior API Developer will be working within the Retail Wireless team in our Dish Grand Central office located in Denver, CO. You will be working in a collaborative and fast-paced environment spanning the Retail Wireless team and broader Dish organizations.

Key Responsibilities:

Designing and implementing aws cloud native backend components supporting our mobile apps

This position will require interaction among multiple teams, internal and external, to provide the logic and integrations necessary to drive our mobile layer

Ability to design and implement AWS based architectures that enable cost effective high throughput using serverless and autoscaling

This role requires a heavy usage of automation to deploy components quickly and with low risk

Recommending standards, best practices, architectures, and technologies to stay on the leading edge of mobile development

Deploying and supporting the apps that you and your team deliver to ensure the optimal customer experience

Skills, Experience and Requirements

Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s Degree in a business or technical discipline, or equivalent experience

5 years of experience in software development

3 years of cloud experience (AWS/GCP)

3 years working with Web Services, REST API and Microservices patterns

2 years of modern software development utilizing automation for builds, testing, deployments using CDK

Skills and Qualifications:

Demonstrated experience in software application Lifecycle Management (LCM), and composition of JSON/YAML files

Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code practice and tools, such as Vault, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform

Experience in programming, system integration, or software product deployment, using one or more of the following: Java, TypeScript, Python, or advanced Shell scripting

Experience managing applications in Amazon Web Services and familiarity with all of their core, compute, networking, storage, security, compliance, serverless, orchestration, and analytics offerings

Good working knowledge of deploying and managing large scale applications and services

Experience working in a highly automated agile environment where changes are pushed often

Self-motivation with strong, proven, analytical and problem-solving skills

A constant learner-mindset with the drive to creatively think outside the box and innovate

Salary Ranges

Compensation: $96,250.00/Year – $137,500.00/Year

Benefits

We offer versatile health perks, including flexible spending accounts, HSA, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, career opportunities, and a flexible time away plan; all benefits can be viewed here: DISH Benefits .

The base pay range shown is a guideline. Individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, and competencies; compensation is based on the roles location and is subject to change based on work location.

Candidates need to successfully complete a pre-employment screen, which may include a drug test and DMV check. Our company is committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace where every individual has the opportunity to succeed. We are dedicated to providing individuals with criminal or arrest records a fair chance of employment in accordance with local, state, and federal laws.

The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.

We pride ourselves on developing and promoting talent as an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer – Veteran/Disability. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. All qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with local, state, and federal law. We are a true merit-based organization and work hard so there are no artificial barriers to ones potential success. DISH is committed to a workforce where everyones opportunities are limitless. Please note that you may redact or remove any information that identifies age, date of birth or dates of school attendance/graduation from your application documents before submission and throughout our interview process.