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Front End Engineer, Big Data

  • Full Time
  • Emeryville, CA
  • Applications have closed

Gracenote

Are you ready to revolutionize entertainment?
Gracenote is an entertainment data and technology provider powering the world’s top music services, automakers, cable and satellite operators, and consumer electronics companies. At its core, Gracenote helps people find, discover and connect with the entertainment they love. Daily, Gracenote processes 35 billion rows of data and is quickly becoming a world-leader in return path “big data.” The company has grown to more than 2000 employees in 17 countries, including over 600 of the world’s top engineers with a passion for music, video, sports, and entertainment technology. Founded in 1998, Gracenote is one of America’s most iconic and respected media companies.

If you are a software engineer dreaming about building cool visualizations for entertainment data products, designing amazing web applications, and other neat ways to visualize analytics that are generated by our big data platform at scale on the public cloud, please read on!

We are using the latest technologies running on open source big data platforms and deployed on a public cloud. Our team is comprised of engineers with experience building UI, analytics, and big data platforms.

Position Summary

We are looking for a front end developer to join Gracenote’s Big Data team. The focus of this position is to develop beautiful and functional web applications to display everything from big data dashboards to metadata editors for some of the largest network television companies.

What You Will Be Doing:

Building web applications for big data visualization, advanced UIs for managing and accessing the huge portfolio of Gracenote entertainment data
Working with the latest JavaScript and Big Data technologies

Requirements:

4+ years of JavaScript, HTML, & CSS experience developing web applications
Experience with React JS and Redux (AngularJS is a plus)
Detailed knowledge of CSS3, SASS, responsive design
Experience with Node.js
Experience with Webpack and Babel
Ability to work as part of a team and interact effectively with others
Self-awareness, drive, and a desire to continually improve

Bonus Points:

A passion for great UI and UX
Experience with Elasticsearch
Golang knowledge
Cloud experience

Top reasons to work for Gracenote:

Work environment that promotes work/life balance
Significant opportunity to work on fun UI/UX and with all pieces of big data technology stack
Real influence on entertainment experience of hundreds of millions of people all around the world
Open culture where fun, collaboration and happiness is key
Profitable company, plus stability and security of a larger parent company
Fun activities – we’re in media and entertainment business