Senior Software Engineer (Engineer 4)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Overview
Make your mark at Comcast -- a Fortune 30 global media and technology company. Become part of our award-winning, international engineering team that turns big ideas into cutting-edge products, platforms, and solutions that our customers love. We create space to innovate, and we recognize, reward, and invest in your ideas, while ensuring you can proudly bring your authentic self to the workplace. You’ll do the best work of your career right here.
Success Profile
What makes a successful Senior Software Engineer (Engineer 4) at Comcast? Check out these top traits and explore role-specific skills in the job description below.
- Results-driven
- Adaptable
- Inventive
- Entrepreneurial
- Team Player
- Problem-Solver
Responsibilities
Senior Software Engineer (Engineer 4)
Job Summary
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership for the Enterprise Decision Engine (EDE), a platform that powers intelligent, real-time decisioning and personalized customer experiences across the enterprise. This senior individual contributor will lead the design and delivery of strategic platform capabilities, translating complex business requirements into scalable, resilient, and maintainable solutions using Java, Spring, SpEL, and modern web technologies. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong ownership, thrives in ambiguous environments, drives architectural direction, and influences engineering decisions across teams. The successful candidate will partner closely with product, architecture, engineering, and business stakeholders to solve complex technical challenges, establish engineering best practices, and elevate the technical capabilities of the broader organization through mentorship and technical leadership. This role is focused on platform evolution, innovation, and engineering excellence, with no direct people-management responsibilities.Job Description
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience developing, delivering, and supporting enterprise-scale applications and platforms.
- Strong hands-on experience designing and developing scalable applications and services using Java and Spring.
- Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems, APIs, event-driven architectures, and microservice-based platforms at scale.
- Proven ability to take complex business and technical requirements, evaluate tradeoffs, and translate them into scalable, maintainable solutions and technical roadmaps.
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments, independently drive technical solutions, and deliver complex initiatives from concept through production.
- Strong understanding of software development methodologies, object-oriented design, automated testing, CI/CD practices, observability, performance optimization, and production operations.
- Experience with cloud-native technologies, distributed architectures, and modern application development practices.
- Proven ability to lead cross-team technical initiatives, influence architectural direction, drive engineering decisions, and align stakeholders around technical solutions.
- Experience mentoring engineers through technical leadership, design reviews, knowledge sharing, and the establishment of engineering best practices.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively engage engineering, product, architecture, and business stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own the technical solution for complex EDE and ACRE capabilities from requirements through production delivery, including solution design, implementation strategy, and operational readiness.
- Analyze business and technical requirements and translate them into scalable platform capabilities, technical specifications, and implementable work for the broader engineering team.
- Design, develop, and enhance platform services and applications using Java, Spring, SpEL, Next.js, and related technologies.
- Drive architectural evolution and continuous improvement of the Enterprise Decision Engine (EDE) platform, establishing technical direction, evaluating tradeoffs, and guiding implementation across related services.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, product managers, architects, business partners, and cross-functional teams to identify requirements and deliver solutions aligned with business objectives.
- Drive engineering excellence through technical leadership, design reviews, code reviews, prototyping efforts, and the adoption of modern development practices.
- Mentor junior engineers through technical guidance, knowledge sharing, and the establishment of reusable patterns and best practices.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, including solution designs, implementation details, architectural decisions, and operational procedures.
- Improve platform reliability, scalability, performance, security, and operational health through observability, automation, testing, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Support software deployment, release management, production operations, and incident response activities to ensure reliable delivery of platform capabilities.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, AI-assisted engineering practices, market trends, and industry best practices to drive innovation and accelerate delivery.
- Exercise independent judgment and technical leadership when solving complex engineering challenges.
- Regular, consistent, and punctual attendance.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Spring Expression Language (SpEL), rules engines, decision frameworks, or configuration-driven business logic platforms.
- Experience building platforms that support personalization, decisioning, workflow orchestration, recommendation systems, or real-time customer experience capabilities at enterprise scale.
- Experience developing modern web applications using Next.js, React, TypeScript, or comparable frontend technologies.
- Knowledge of decisioning platforms, recommendation systems, rules engines, experimentation frameworks, AI/ML-driven solutions, or real-time data processing systems.
- Experience with event-driven architectures, asynchronous processing, streaming technologies, and cloud-native platform patterns.
- Experience leveraging AI-assisted software development tools and specification-driven engineering practices to improve delivery speed and quality.
- Demonstrated success leading technical initiatives across multiple teams and influencing engineering best practices.
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.
Comcast 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.
Skills:
Thinking Outside of the Box; Innovative Thinking; Troubleshooting; Innovative Initiatives; Software Development; Teamwork; Design
Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality - to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.
Education
Bachelor's Degree
While 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.
Relevant Work Experience
7-10 Years
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