Senior Software Engineer

About the Role

We are searching for a Senior Software Engineer to be at the heart of our R&D team based in our Dalgety Bay office. You will be working with the latest codec and encryption technologies central to the transport of secure video over an enterprise network and will be focused on video play back.  You will use your experience and knowledge to give day to day technical direction to a small team of Engineers. Our products are used by some of the world's best known brands to view and manipulate their video content all over the world.

Our development is based on innovation, from handling high bitrate, encrypted, UHD satellite streams to custom UX on the latest smart TVs for our international client base, the opportunities are endless. Football, basketball, banks, governments, performing arts, airports, universities, TV networks, hotels, cruise ships, casinos, racecourses, hospitals… the list goes on! Your code will be used everywhere with VITEC.

About You

You will have Software Engineering experience and will have achieved a technical degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Electronics or a related discipline.

You will be involved in:

• Daily coding in C/C++/C# on windows/Mac OS
• Working in an agile environment with Jira, GitLab
• Initial product concept discussions to implementation and completion
• Coordinating the technical approach for the product with team lead and product managers
• Mentoring junior members of the team

Skills

Knowledge or experience in the following:

• Demonstrate previous experience of coding in  .Net
• Familiarity with windows desktop and/or Mac OS programming
• Exposure to Linux
• Exposure to agile development
• An interest in video technology such as codecs is a plus
• Experience mentoring junior engineers
• Ability to discuss and present work to the rest of the team
• An understanding of networking technologies and protocols

Benefits

• Holidays – 33 days annual leaver per annum and the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days
• Pension – company pension scheme, 5% employer contribution
• Life cover
• Employee Assistance Programme – access to a counsellor
• Healthy lifestyle – bike to work scheme, discounted gym membership, weekly office fruit delivery
• Training – free access to LinkedIn learning and internal training courses
• Referral incentive – you can be rewarded for successfully referring a friend
• Company events

Please Note: This role will close on Monday13th May and first stage interviews will be held week commencing 20th May.

About VITEC

VITEC is a market-leading provider of IPTV, digital signage and video streaming technologies that help organisations harness the power of video to communicate, educate and entertain. VITEC is a pioneer in the design and manufacture of hardware and software for video encoding, decoding, transcoding, archiving and streaming over IP. Our end-to-end video streaming solutions enable customers to capture TV and video content directly from any source and manage its delivery, as channels or within digital signage screens, to any connected device via an existing network.

From corporate, broadcast and venues, to accommodation, government and military, VITEC has global expertise in delivering complex, proAV solutions. VITEC’s award-winning IPTV platform is a powerful suite of services for content management, digital signage, video archiving, and video wall processing. Our encode/decode solutions are 100% hardware based, including PCIe cards with SDK for custom design or OEM for high-performance video systems.

Headquartered in Paris, France, we have a global reach through our offices across the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Making a difference with green initiatives, VITEC is the first Zero Carbon MPEG company and encourages customers to buy GreenPEG™ for continued environmental efforts to reduce greenhouse gases.