Software Engineer

About the Company

At Synamedia, we’re a global team of 1,700+ trailblazers across 20 countries, revolutionizing how the world is entertained and informed. With a legacy of protecting our long-time customers, we’re laser-focused on driving growth and leading the charge as the industry shifts from Pay-TV to IP and streaming. We are the pioneers in next-gen media cloud services who power the viewing experiences of billions of people on Earth with our best-in-class live streaming, distribution, ad tech, cloud platforms, and more. Our solutions, built over three decades and trusted by 1,000+ customers, fuel giants like Disney, NBA, The Olympics, Astro, Comcast, Tata Play, and many more. Ready to grow with us and shape the future of media and entertainment solutions? Let’s do it together!

About the Role

We are looking for early career engineers with a keen interest for code development on Linux platforms or cloud platforms, to join our engineering group working on implementing management and orchestration solutions in the broadcast and video technology space. You will work on cutting-edge technology, be able to generate innovative solutions to problems and ensure quality software is delivered to our customers.

Responsibilities

• The role is software development focused mainly on the design, implementation and testing of new features on an industry leading video processing and management platform, within scrum feature teams.
• Develop software increments (tasks) through established practices (design, coding, unit testing and reviewing)
• Take part in daily scrums where the team shares impediments and progress on the sprint plan
• Demonstrate newly developed features to a broader audience
• Final feature testing, hardening the solution before each quarterly release
• Automation of build, test, or any other task
• Coding using Java, Python, TypeScript, Bash, …
• Developing for Linux environments
• Docker and Kubernetes

Technical Expertise

• Java programming skills
• Junit, Maven, Spring, Hibernate, Design Patterns
• Python programming skills
• Django REST, Celery, Poetry
• Relational databases (PostgreSQL or alike)
• RESTfull API and MVC patterns
• Web application frameworks like Angular, React or similar
• TypeScript / JavaScript, HTML5, CSS / SASS, Node, NPM, Webpack, …
• Networking
• Linux, Docker / Containers, Kubernetes
• Cloud Services (AWS, GCP and alike)
• Version Control (GIT)
• CI / CD pipeline (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

Qualifications

• Strong technical foundation in areas such as operating systems, networking, databases, and scripting.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Required Skills

• Strong technical foundation in areas such as operating systems, networking, databases, and scripting.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Preferred Skills

• Growth Opportunities When welcoming new talent into the team, we are always looking for opportunities to bring in new ideas, those who ask challenging questions and have the curiosity to learn. These qualities are important to us as we nurture a culture of innovation, seize more opportunities to partner with our customers and make a difference as we transform the future of video.
• To further support your growth and that of our talent pool, Synamedia offers an exhaustive library of skill enhancement resources from AWS, SkillSoft and other partners to help you upskill while on the job. Be it data analytics that piques your brain or content creation, there’s something for every kind of mind.

Pay range and compensation package

• Flexible working arrangements.
• Competitive pay hikes and bonus packages.
• Skill enhancement and growth opportunities.
• Equal opportunity employment.
• Health and wellbeing programmes.
• Collaborative work with a truly global team.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Synamedia is committed to promoting a diverse, inclusive and equal opportunity community - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. Our values connect us, and we love to win together. We work with a bias to action, have a bold approach and encourage being deeply curious to grow and evolve, as a team. In our aim to foster a people-friendly environment, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, engagement activities and services to support all our colleagues across our 20 office locations. Synamedia regularly organises community events that promote cohesion and diversity among colleagues. We are proud of our mental health wellbeing initiatives, our Pride month awareness campaign, our cancer awareness programme and much more.

More information

If this role sparks your interest or any questions, or if you require any accommodations to be made to help you through your application, please reach out to our recruitment team, who would be happy to help.