As a part of Discovery's growing Product Development team, you’ll use your creativity and technical expertise to create the future of video delivery, including TV Everywhere, Over-the-Top content, streaming video, and digital asset management. We'll also need the depth of your experience to drive innovation and development of new technologies (think "Big Data") and improvements to existing products that delight our users.
In addition to providing guidance on best-of-breed tool chains and modern frameworks, we will count on your leadership to help us build an agile and adaptive team environment, working closely with other members of the team to develop solid technical strategies and mentor junior developers.
As an example of the kind of cool stuff we're doing, check out the site we built for Nik Wallenda crossing the Grand Canyon: http://skywire.discovery.com and Whale Wars http://blood-and-water.animalplanet.com/index.html
A video player engineer who can develop responsive code for very highly traffic websites such as Discovery.com, Animal Planet and TLC. Majority of the work will revolve around the development and support of the video player, plugins, and related services.