Development Engineer 2
Comcast · Chennai
Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive innovation to create the world's best entertainment and online experiences. As a Fortune 50 leader, we set the pace in a variety of innovative and fascinating businesses and create career opportunities across a wide range of locations and disciplines. We are at the forefront of change and move at an amazing pace, thanks to our remarkable people, who bring cutting-edge products and services to life for millions of customers every day. If you share in our passion for teamwork, our vision to revolutionize industries and our goal to lead the future in media and technology, we want you to fast-forward your career at Comcast.Job Summary
Design, build, and operate the Auto Publisher service that connects planning systems with image and metadata systems and prepares validated EPG data for external communication and press usage. The role ensures that programme, image, and metadata information is brought together reliably and made available through automated, traceable, and scalable workflows.Implement validation, aggregation, transformation, and export logic for EPG-related data across planning, image, and metadata sources. Ensure that data quality, completeness, consistency, and publication readiness are checked before information is passed on to communication and press channels.
Work closely with product, editorial, communication, press, planning, metadata, and engineering stakeholders to understand existing workflows, reduce manual work, clarify system responsibilities, and support the transition towards an automated publishing process.
• Design and implement the Auto Publisher as a maintainable backend service using Kotlin, Java, Kafka, and hexagonal architecture.
• Build robust domain logic to combine planning, image, and metadata information and prepare validated EPG data for communication and press-facing channels. Implement integrations with upstream planning systems, image and metadata systems, and downstream publication interfaces, ensuring resilient communication, clear ownership of data flows & robust error handling, and maintainable interfaces for future extensions.)
• Use MongoDB and PostgreSQL appropriately for persistence, processing state, validation results, auditability, and operational transparency.
• Replace manual publishing steps with automated validation and publishing workflows that support a clear separation of responsibilities between upstream editorial/business decisions and downstream technical publication.
• The Auto Publisher should enable business and editorial decisions to be made in the upstream systems, so that downstream publishing can run with minimal manual intervention.
• Ensure quality through clean code, testable architecture, meaningful validation rules, transparent error handling, and close collaboration with product, editorial, communication, press, planning, metadata, and engineering stakeholders.
Job Description
What you’ll bring: Backend engineering, system integration, and data-driven platforms, with strong expertise in backend services, event-driven architectures, EPG data processing, validation frameworks, clean architecture, and domain modelling. Proficient in Kotlin, Java, Kafka, Hexagonal Architecture, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, API integration, data validation, persistence modelling, and automated processing workflows.
Responsibilities:
Writing and maintaining efficient code for software components, adhering to best practices in development
Supporting the design and development of new software applications aligned with business objectives
Implementing testing frameworks for software validation, including unit and integration tests, to ensure quality
Documenting the software development process, including design and deployment procedures, to facilitate knowledge sharing
Analyzing software integration needs and planning system architecture to meet technical specifications
Reviewing current practices and technical literature to inform project solutions and applying engineering methodologies
Working with Quality Assurance to ensure applications meet technical requirements and fit specifications
Troubleshooting software issues, providing resolutions to enhance application performance and user satisfaction
Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary.
Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Employees at all levels are expected to:
Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
Own the customer experience think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
Know your stuff be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
Win as a team make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
Be an active part of the Net Promoter System a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
Drive results and growth.
Support a culture of inclusion in how you work and lead.
Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.
Disclaimer: This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.
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Education
Bachelor's DegreeWhile possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.Certifications (if applicable)
Relevant Work Experience
2-5 YearsComcast is an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.