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Senior Software Developer - AMS
1 year ago
Job Description
Your Responsibilities
In this role, your responsibilities will include;
- Work with your colleagues to develop features, fix bugs, and define new services from start to finish.
- Advocate for professional standards of development.
- Review events that impact availability and performance to guide future improvements.
- Troubleshoot problems across different levels of the stack, and in production environments.
- Take responsibility for code quality, always leaving projects in better state than before you started work.
- Contribute to maintaining an authoritative source of documentation.
- Coordinate with leadership to define and prioritise projects
- Support the introduction of new technologies where and when appropriate.
- Evangelise use of the Core Platform within MPC and other Technicolor business units.
- Take initiative to improve the developer experience in small or large ways.
- Mentor and pair with others in the team to encourage the professional and technical growth of others.
- Own your personal development plan and identify training opportunities for others in the team.
- Provide some level of operational support for the platform as required.
Qualifications
About You
To succeed in the role, the following experience and competencies are required;
- Production-level experience using Python for desktop applications, service backends or development infrastructure.
- An understanding of concurrency as it applied to CPython, and writing code that scales gracefully.
- Strong knowledge of microservices architecture, design and implementation.
- SQL and general database knowledge for query writing and optimisation.
- A working understanding of HTTP and JSON.
- Familiarity with source control, in particular Git, and associated best practices.
- Comfortable working in a primarily Linux based development and runtime environment.
- Solid knowledge of testing principles, in particular TDD and/or BDD.
- Proven problem-solving skills around technical, product and business requests.
- Be able to consider a technical solution from different perspectives, including algorithms, complexity, correctness, maintainability.
- Collaborative and team-oriented approach to product development, working with teams across locations, timezones and cultures.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Be self-motivated and demonstrate strong organisational skills.
- Previous experience in the VFX industry is not required to be successful in this role.
Nice to Have
The following are not essential to be successful in the role, however prior experience or the desire to grow in these areas will be of benefit;
- Knowledge of the various components used to develop micro-service frameworks (such as uWSGI, NGINX, RabbitMQ and Flask).
- Knowledge in k8/Kubernetes and Docker.
- Knowledge of monitoring tools (such as Prometheus, Alert Manager, Grafana and Graylog).
- Understanding of CI/CD best practices and advocate for their use and improvement.
- C++ knowledge will be the added advantage.
- Cross-platform development on Windows and OS X.
- Knowledge of Python packages and frameworks such as Flask, PyQt, PyMySQL, etc.
- An interest in the architectural perspective - contributing to architectural decisions and other technical documentation.
- Experience of Agile and lean methodologies, and an interest in process improvement in these areas.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment where requirements change.
- Able to present technical concepts to a broad audience with varying level of technical understanding.
- Experience working with large, legacy code bases; from maintenance and refactoring through to end-of-life support.
- An awareness of security and keeping content secure.
Qualifications (Desirable):
Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.
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