Software Developer II

Overview

The Dalton team builds and operates backend services that power subscriptions, commerce, and platform integrations across our streaming products. These services are high-volume, customer-facing, and event-driven, integrating with multiple internal and external systems. As a Software Development Engineer II (Dev2) on Dalton, you will focus primarily on backend development, working on Java-based microservices that process asynchronous events, manage data at scale, and operate reliably in production on AWS.

This role is suited for an engineer who is comfortable owning well-defined backend features end-to-end within an established architecture, and who wants to deepen their expertise in distributed systems and cloud-native services.

Accountabilities

• Design, implement, and maintain Java-based backend services using Spring Boot
• Build and enhance event-driven and asynchronous workflows leveraging AWS messaging services
• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and internal service integrations
• Work with AWS services such as SNS, SQS, and DynamoDB to support scalable, resilient systems
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code that adheres to existing Dalton service patterns
• Participate in code reviews, focusing on correctness, clarity, and long-term maintainability
• Collaborate closely with product, QA, and partner engineering teams to deliver backend capabilities
• Help diagnose and resolve issues in production systems, including participation in on-call rotations with support from senior engineers
• Contribute to documentation and shared understanding of system behavior, data flows, and operational considerations
• Independently delivers well-scoped backend features within existing service architectures
• Understands how backend components interact through messaging, queues, and data stores
• Applies appropriate design patterns without over-engineering solutions
• Writes high-quality unit and integration tests for backend services
• Demonstrates growing ownership of service reliability, performance, and operational health
• Effectively communicates technical tradeoffs and implementation details within the team

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• Strong experience developing backend applications in Java
• Hands‑on experience building services using Spring Boot
• Experience developing API-driven or service-oriented backend systems
• Solid understanding of object-oriented design, data structures, and software design principles
• Experience working in an agile, collaborative engineering environment
• Ability to troubleshoot and debug issues across distributed backend services
• Hands-on experience with AWS backend services is preferred, specifically: Amazon SNS (event publishing and fan-out)
• Amazon SQS (asynchronous processing and queue-based workflows)
• Amazon DynamoDB (NoSQL data modeling and access patterns)
• Experience operating Spring Boot services in AWS production environments
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience supporting production services, including familiarity with on-call practices
• Exposure to logging, metrics, monitoring, and alerting for backend systems

Compensation and Benefits

Pay Range: $100,000.00 – $134,500.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros.

Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time and vacation.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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