Senior Software Engineer (Test and Tools)

YouView ,
London, Greater London
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Overview At YouView, we live and breathe TV. Our diverse, cross functional team of technologists share an obsession to create the world's best TV experience. We are looking for Software Engineers to help us deliver our vision, build scalable Cloud Services and fantastic User Interfaces. Responsibilities Accountable for test strategy and best practices across our teams Take a quality first approach, maintaining our unit, system & integration test infrastructure Create high quality software powering a fantastic user experience for our millions of users Maintain highly scalable Microservices, able to handle billions of requests a day Mentoring and coaching, helping to grow our engineering capability An obsessive attention to detail creating amazing user interfaces and cloud services Skills and experience required * Developing test and build infrastructure using JavaScript and other high-level languages * Excellent understanding of object orientated programming * Effective debugging and ability to recognise and refactor code antipatterns * Good understanding of AWS or similar public cloud providers * Expert in test automation frameworks, dependency injection & mocking * Have an insatiable appetite for learning and growth, no matter what your level * Comfortable ramping up in unfamiliar code and product areas * Excellent problem-solving skills and an eye for system design are a must. We enjoy solving hard problems. * Managing code using GIT, guarding quality using code reviews and pull requests * Working as part of a team using Agile principles, pairing up whenever we can and asking for help when we need it Nice to have * TypeScript, RxJs, React, Functional Programming * ECS, S3, Kinesis, DynamoDB, Lambda, CloudFormation, SignalFx, Cloudability. * Working in a resource constrained, embedded environment * We sometimes get our hands dirty with C++, DBus, Android, iOS, DVB, IPTV Benefits: Competitive Salary on offer Annual Bonus London City location with easy access to Cannon Street & London Bridge Pension Plan Private Healthcare Flexible working Holiday purchase programme Season Ticket Loan Free Set Top Box Staff Discount Scheme About us: YouView launched in summer 2012, brought BT Sport over IP in 2013, an upgrade to 4k and the launch of Netflix in 2014, partnered with Sony to offer the UI for its TVs in 2015 and brought the first UHD device to the UK. YouView launched a major upgrade to its underlying platform in 2017 with an award winning UI in the UK with a powerful cloud back office providing new data and insights into how consumers watch and find TV. It recently announced the launch of Amazon Prime with BT and the arrival of Sky Atlantic in early 2019. YouView continues to innovate and is working with the BBC to trial a UHD version of BBC iPlayer. YouView has won a number of major industry awards including Advanced TV Innovation of the Year at the 2017 Content Innovation Awards and Best Platform at the annual T3 Awards and most recently winner of the National Technology Awards for TV, Film and Broadcasting Technology of the Year. Our Values: We're Smart We hire the best and work as one. Informed by data but inspired by insight, we find brilliant new ways of making the complex simple We're Always Ahead We are focused on the future continuously evolving and innovating to bring a better TV experience everyday We're on your side Working with our partners and understanding their customers we shape the perfect TV experience around our viewers Find out more about us on our social media: Twitter, Linkedin & Glassdoor Only the data that you explicitly entered into the application form above will be sent to YouView. This data is subject to our application and candidate privacy policy

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