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Telemetry: Senior Software Engineer

Competative / London

Description

Company overview:

World leaders in the manipulation, delivery and verification of digital televisual content and advertising. Our team members are highly qualified coders, engineers and analysts. In 2008 we were awarded an International Emmy® Award in recognition of our expertise within the digital televisual content sector. We deliver and diligently audit vast quantities of high quality, interactive and linear video across twenty territories; saving our clients millions of dollars each year. We are independent, media neutral and experienced. We bring analytical rigour and science to the art of televisual delivery and help make sense of the digital video sector.

Role:

We are looking to recruit an experienced senior software engineer/programmer with exceptional programming skills and ability to work in an agile and fast moving development cycle. The role will include:

Working with a wide variety of systems
Handling fast-moving projects
Developing and maintaining new systems to cope with large volume of data
Analysing real-time data

Required skills:

The ideal candidate will have at least two major projects under their belt and a proven ability at developing innovate and high performance design solutions across various technical platforms.

A high level of technical ability in C/C++ and at least two other major programming languages, eg. C#, Java, PHP
A passion to learn and adapt to new technologies and find innovative solutions to difficult problems
Ability to work effectively in a fast-moving environment
Advanced knowledge of programming techniques with a particular attention to algorithmic design
Code optimisation skills, in particular application performance and memory efficiency
An obsession with code quality
Good academic qualifications, preferably at degree level

Advantageous skills:

Knowledge of the technical aspects of the Internet and the issues involved in developing real-time, high volume global systems running 24/7
Programming on the Linux platform
Understanding of networking, network programming and security principles
Experience of web technologies, eg. PHP, AS3
Experience in one or more scripting languages, eg. Perl, Python, Ruby
Advanced use of source control systems with large multi-branch projects
Strong understanding and/or experience of high-volume, distributed online data systems