Senior Software Developer - Compute

Job Description

Technicolor Creative Studios is a creative technology company driven by one purpose: The realization of ambitious and extraordinary ideas. We inspire creative companies across the world to produce their most iconic work. Our award-winning teams of artists and technologists' partner with the creative community across film, television, animation, gaming, brand experience and advertising to bring the universal art of storytelling to audiences everywhere.

No idea is too ambitious for us to create to an incredibly high standard. Technicolor Creative Studios provides World Class production expertise in Film, Episodic, Gaming, Advertising and Experiential Marketing.

Primary Responsibilities
• Work with your colleagues to fix bugs, develop features, and define new services from start to finish.
• Responsible for implementing several concurrent, high visibility projects in a fast-paced environment that may cross multiple business unit and/or divisions.
• Communicate tasks, challenges and workflows across a globally distributed team.
• 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 a better state than before you started work.
• Contribute to maintaining an authoritative source of documentation.
• Coordinate with leadership to define and prioritize projects.
• Support the introduction of new technologies where and when appropriate.
• Evangelize use of the Core Platform within your 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

Required Skills and Experience
• Strong knowledge of microservices architecture, design and implementation
• Production-level experience using Python for web/desktop applications, service backends or development infrastructure.
• SQL and general database knowledge for query writing and optimization.
• Degree, or equivalent, in a computer science or related engineering subject.
• Experienced in managing large, complex projects in a high-tech development environment.
• Experience using development best practices.
• 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, time zones and cultures.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Be self-motivated and demonstrate strong organizational skills.

Previous experience in the VFX industry is not required to be successful in this role.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rov9o4-13-59-61-119-42 in your application.