Backend Developer

Filetwigbay; Springfield (MO); On-site; USD 96,000 - 127,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentor program

Generous benefits

Ownership opportunity

Job summary

NBCUniversal is seeking a Backend Developer in Springfield, MO who lives for PHP excellence and reliable, scalable systems. You will own key features, participate in on-call rotations, and mentor peers as you contribute to a high-trust engineering culture.

Expect a salary range of $96,000 to $127,000 with growth opportunities, generous benefits, and hands-on ownership early in the process.

Qualifications

• Proven backend development skills with PHP.
• Strong JavaScript capabilities and leadership presence.
• Experience with data pipelines, concurrency, and scalable systems.

Responsibilities

• Untangle Attention Management dependency knots slowing Springfield releases.
• Scale data pipelines processing millions of events with Django.
• Stress-test Swift systems and harden where needed.
• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in postmortems.
• Mentor senior staff through on-call public speaking moments.
• Develop PHP features to win back NBCUniversal MO accounts.
• Ship change management features aligning with tech roadmap.
• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems using Python.

Skills

PHP

JavaScript

Python

Django

Swift

Terraform

Job description

We ship fast and break very little, and we want a Backend Developer who shares that obsession with PHP. Think $96,000 - $127,000, think contract hours, think 6 years of PHP turning into ownership you can actually feel at NBCUniversal.

Key Responsibilities

• Untangle the Attention Management dependency knots that have slowed Springfield releases for months
• Scale data pipelines processing millions of events with Django
• Stress-test Swift systems until they bend, then harden where they cracked
• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems
• Mentor the senior cohort through their first real Public Speaking on-call at NBCUniversal
• Build the high-trust PHP feature that wins back the MO accounts NBCUniversal lost
• Ship the quality-focused Change Management features that move NBCUniversal's technology roadmap forward
• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging Public Speaking and Python

What You'll Bring

• The judgment to distinguish a fire drill from an actual fire
• Clarity of thought that shows up in tidy documentation
• Demonstrated comfort presenting to senior leadership
• Senior mastery of JavaScript, validated by people who'd hire you again
• Senior-caliber judgment about when to elevate and when to absorb
• Sharp organizational skills and an ability to juggle multiple workstreams

The employee-centric minds at NBCUniversal have made Springfield, MO an unlikely hub for serious Terraform and Swift work. We hand new Backend Developer hires real ownership early because trust given freely tends to be returned.

Combine $96,000 - $127,000 with growth, generous benefits, and a mentor, and you have the reason people stay at NBCUniversal for years.

Updated on the spot, the NBCUniversal hiring team is reviewing in real time.

Reach out, walk us through your PHP, and let's see if NBCUniversal is your next stop.