Staff Engineer - Streaming Application Development

Company Summary
EchoStar is reimagining the future of connectivity. Our business reach spans satellite television service, live-streaming and on-demand programming, smart home installation services, mobile plans and products.
Today, our brands include Boost Mobile, DISH TV, Gen Mobile, Hughes and Sling TV.
Department Summary
Our DISH Technology team challenges the status quo and reimagines capabilities across industries. Whether through research and development, technology innovation or solution engineering, our team members play vital roles in connecting consumers with the products and platforms of tomorrow.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
Looking for a Senior Ruby on Rails developer to own and evolve our core streaming middleware platform in Rails today, while driving a Golang-based re-architecture for tomorrow. This service powers high-traffic client applications while ingesting and processing vast, varied data streams. You'll shape its architecture-both in Rails and Go-to ensure it remains performant, reliable and easy to extend.
On a daily basis, you'll convert complex ingestion requirements into clean, maintainable Rails code, abstracting diverse data types into scalable, observable services with thorough documentation-and collaborate on or build new performance-critical components in Go. You'll also mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, pair programming and architectural discussions, and communicate design decisions clearly to both technical teams and executives.
The ideal candidate brings at least five years of hands-on Rails experience, a commitment to code excellence, and practical exposure to Go for service re-architecture. You stay current with industry trends, embrace new tools and best practices, and thrive in a collaborative environment. If you're ready to drive innovation in streaming technology and help grow our engineering talent, we'd love to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain and enhance a legacy Ruby on Rails API-only codebase, while modernizing workflows and processes for greater efficiency.
• Design and implement new endpoints and queries-and update existing ones-to meet evolving client system requirements.
• Lead the rearchitecture of the platform into Golang-based microservices: define clear service boundaries, APIs, and interactions to boost scalability, resiliency, observability, and maintainability.
• Author comprehensive technical documentation and conduct knowledge-transfer sessions to upskill the team.
• Collaborate closely with executives, product owners, architects, and engineers to drive feature implementation and align on technical vision.
• Innovate solutions that address limitations of existing open source or commercial tools, ensuring best-in-class outcomes.
• Champion open source contributions and foster a culture of knowledge sharing across the engineering organization.
• Leverage solid experience in CI/CD pipelines, RESTful API design, and SRE best practices to ensure reliable, repeatable deployments.
• Apply strong analytical, diagnostic, and problem-solving skills to independently develop solutions and effectively partner with team members.
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal, presentation, and whiteboarding abilities to communicate complex ideas clearly.

Skills, Experience and Requirements
Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Mathematics, or equivalent technical education/experience
• 5+ years of professional Ruby on Rails development
• 5+ years of BDD/TDD practice using RSpec, Capybara, and Minitest
• 3+ years building RESTful APIs in Go, with hands-on use of Gorilla/Mux, Gin, Echo, and go-kit
• Proficiency in Go concurrency (goroutines, channels, select ) and memory-management techniques
• 5+ years working with NoSQL databases (Elasticsearch, MongoDB, AWS Keyspaces, or equivalent)
• 5+ years implementing in-memory caching solutions (Redis, Memcached)
• 5+ years engineering cloud-native solutions in AWS or equivalent environments
• 5+ years with data-stream platforms (Apache/Confluent Kafka, InfluxDB, etc.)
• 5+ years collaborating in Agile/Scrum teams
• 5+ years automating development workflows using Bash, Ruby, and Python scripts

Good-to-Have Skills

• Designing high-level architectures with AWS services (Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, EC2, ElastiCache) on Linux
• Extensive hands-on experience with Elasticsearch or other NoSQL big-data solutions
• Proficiency with Docker containerization and orchestration
• Deep understanding of Ruby on Rails design patterns and their evolution
• Building Rails API applications that integrate multiple data stores
• Scaling Ruby on Rails APIs through refactoring, re-architecture, and query optimization
• Extracting and analyzing metrics/logs from Dynatrace, Grafana, CloudWatch, etc., to drive product improvements
• Applying OOP design patterns to modernize legacy codebases for maintainability and scalability
• Writing well-encapsulated test suites using RSpec
• Condensing complex, distributed service-based architectures into cohesive, maintainable "majestic monoliths"

Visa sponsorship not available for this role
Candidates must be willing to participate in at least one in-person on-site interview
Salary Ranges
Compensation: $110,100.00/Year - $157,300.00/Year
Benefits
We offer versatile health perks, including flexible spending accounts, HSA, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, career opportunities, and a flexible time away plan; all benefits can be viewed here: DISH Benefits .
The base pay range shown is a guideline. Individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, and competencies; compensation is based on the role's location and is subject to change based on work location.
Candidates need to successfully complete a pre-employment screen, which may include a drug test and DMV check. Our company is committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace where every individual has the opportunity to succeed. We are dedicated to providing individuals with criminal or arrest records a fair chance of employment in accordance with local, state, and federal laws.
The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.
We pride ourselves on developing and promoting talent as an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. EchoStar will accommodate the sincerely held religious beliefs of employees if such accommodations are not undue hardships and are otherwise within the bounds of applicable law. All qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with local, state, and federal law. You may redact any information that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of school/graduation from your application documents before submission and throughout our application process.
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