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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 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 An obsessive attention to detail creating amazing User Interfaces and/or Cloud Services Take a quality first approach, maintaining our Unit, System& Integration tests Most importantly... have some fun and help us build an appealing engineering culture We run a "YouDay" once a sprint. It is a day where you choose what you want to work on. The only parameters are that it will either support you in your learning and development or that it will benefit the business now or in the future. Skills and experience required * Developing applications at scale using JavaScript or Node.js * Good understanding of AWS or similar public cloud providers * Using tools like Mocha, Sinon, WebDriver & Cucumber * Have an insatiable appetite for learning and growth, no matter what your level * Comfortable ramping up in unfamiliar code and product areas * Good 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 Nice to have's * TypeScript, RxJs, React, Functional Programming * ECS, S3, Kinesis, DynamoDB, Lambda, CloudFormation, SignalFx, Cloudability. * Working in a resource constrained, embedded environment * Debugging a complex stack with many actors * We sometimes get our hands dirty with C++, DBus, Android, iOS, DVB, IPTV The Perks Competitive Salary on offer Annual Bonus Central London 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 The Purpose We believe in harnessing the combined scale of UK media organisations to delight the consumer and strengthen the UK TV ecology 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 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, winner of the National Technology Awards for TV, Film and Broadcasting Technology of the Year and most recently been shortlisted for 'Best Use of Data Analytics & Insight - Platform/Project' Award at the UK Digital Experience Awards 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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