Shahid is the world’s leading Arabic VOD and SVOD streaming platform by MBC GROUP, offering premium content to Arab families, including binge worthy exclusive Shahid Original Series; Shahid Premieres; Arabic movies fresh off the box-office; live TV channels in true HD quality.

Job Objective:

• Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain software solutions
• Work in an agile team and look for ways to continuously improve through asking and providing feedback
• Engage and coordinate with Product Managers and other engineering teams (Front-End, QA, Dev-Ops) in development new features, support, maintenance and troubleshooting production issues
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables
• Rapidly prototype and build Proof of Concepts to demonstrate to stakeholders

Essential Skills & Requirements:

• Experience with Java, Spring Framework and web services architecture/technologies
• Strong Object-Oriented design skills with understanding of common design paradigms and software design patterns
• Thorough understanding of Software Development Lifecycle and methodologies
• Strong experience with building RESTful web services
• Ability to perform and influence code reviews as well as technical design meetings
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Deep understanding of scalable computing systems, software architecture and data structures
• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra, Hadoop, Solr) databases
• Design and build reusable libraries and APIs

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Strong analytical skills with excellent problem solving abilities
• Experience developing with continuous delivery / Continuous Integration processes and tools (e.g. Jenkins)
• Experience with Linux platform
• Knowledge of performance testing, application tuning and load testing
• Working experience with Scrum or similar agile methodologies
• Experience with version control systems (e.g. Git) and understanding of branching models & strategies