Senior Software Engineer

Description:

WELCOME TO ZOO

ZOO Digital are an award-winning cloud software company with offices in Sheffield, London, LA, Dubai, Korea, and India. We help the biggest names in global entertainment to reach audiences everywhere with our high-quality localization and media services, adapting original TV and movie content for different languages, regions, and cultures.

Our Mission: To help our clients share their stories, by adapting the world’s most watched TV shows and movies into new formats and languages for international audiences to enjoy.

Our Clients: Major Hollywood studios and streaming services, like Disney, Netflix, NBC Universal, Paramount, Facebook, Sony, and HBO, among others.

Our Services: Dubbing, subtitling and captioning, audio description, metadata localization, artwork localization and media processing.

ZOO Digital’s state of the art technology services are backed by the award-winning bespoke software created by our ever-growing Research & Development team, ZOO Digital Labs. The team create cutting edge software solutions to supercharge our services and make our customers’ lives easier.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Salary: Up to c£65,000 DOE

Location: Sheffield/Hybrid remote working (office based 2/3 days per week)

ZOO Digital currently have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer to join our award-winning R&D Department. Research & Development work closely with the Product Support Team to create cutting edge software solutions for high profile and industry-leading customers.

The purpose of the Senior Software Engineer role is to demonstrate exemplary high standards in code implementation and encourage similar high standards in other team members within the R&D team. You will be responsible for ensuring that code added to products meets the original requirements and is of a consistently high standard through the review, approval and merging of merge requests from other team members.

Duties and responsibilities will include:

* Working as the sole developer or working within a team to develop software according to ZOO’s needs.

* Providing technical insights on a product.

* Responsible for the design, implementation, and support of software components anywhere in the software stack.

* Lead by example with respect to designing, tasking up, estimating, and updating Target Process.

* Collaborate with internal teams (e.g. DevOps & QA) and vendors (both internal & external to the organisation) to fix and improve products

* Take ownership of features/products as appropriate.

* Supervising and overseeing the technical aspects of the development project.

* Determine root causes of the most complex software issues, developing practical technical solutions.

* Identify, prioritise and ensure the execution of tasks in the software development life cycle.

* Develop features by producing clean, efficient code.

* Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting.

* Responsible for the review and debug of code to ensure high quality.

* Remain current on new technologies & make recommendations to Technical Lead where necessary.

* Identify and champion appropriate technologies to complete software development tasks.

* Provide support and maintenance of live and legacy products.

ZOO’s R&D department is thriving – you will work as part of a dynamic, lively team with plenty of opportunities for progression and professional development. This is a fantastic opportunity to join our rapidly expanding team, helping to provide creative, innovative and quality driven software at what is a very exciting time for ZOO.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We are looking for someone who is keen to be part of a forward-thinking and dynamic department, to help drive the business forward by achieving project goals. As well as programming experience in one or more Object-Oriented languages, we are looking for applicants with c.4 years of experience working at a senior or above level within a software engineering role, ideally with commercial development experience gained in an Agile environment.

WHY CHOOSE ZOO?

Our technology is constantly evolving, so there’s never a dull moment with ZOO! Our team is made up of creatives, innovators, linguists, and collaborators from all corners of the world, and we employ the brightest and most original thinkers in our industry. Along with a competitive salary, we also offer excellent company benefits, which include;

* Flexi time

* Westfield Health & Rewards Portal

* Unlimited access to over 5000 courses on Udemy for Business

* Pension scheme

* 25 days holiday

* Free fruit and snacks

We value all the folks that make ZOO a great place to work