Job Specifications
Circa £60,000 + Excellent Benefits
Are you an experienced Software Engineer who takes pride in writing clean, efficient, well-structured code? Do you enjoy owning projects end-to-end, solving complex technical challenges and contributing to high-performance, mission-critical software products?
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a successful, growing, employee-owned technology business that designs and delivers advanced broadcast technology used by professional media organisations around the world. Working as part of a close-knit engineering team, you'll play a key role in enhancing existing products, developing new products and features, supporting released software and contributing to long-term technical innovation.
As Senior Software Engineer, you'll work closely with the Software Product Lead (CTO) and wider development team to deliver ongoing improvements, performance enhancements and new capabilities across the company's suite of software products. Your work will directly influence product stability, customer experience and future roadmap direction. This is a highly involved, full-lifecycle engineering role where your ideas and judgement will be valued from day one.
Key Responsibilities
Maintain, enhance and refine existing software products to ensure performance, reliability and long-term supportability.
Contribute to continuous development and delivery of new product features and functionality.
Architect new codebases and take ownership of complex technical components.
Support product maintenance, troubleshooting and customer-facing technical interactions.
Assist in research, innovation and IP creation across DSP, algorithmic development and next-generation processing platforms.
Follow best practice for build, validation, testing and release within Linux environments.
You'll be a confident, capable software engineer with strong C++ skills and experience developing professional-grade software products. Equally comfortable working independently or within a team, you'll bring strong problem-solving ability, solid communication skills and a mature, structured approach to engineering.
Essential Experience
High-quality, maintainable coding in C++ and some C
Strong grasp of data types, structures, multi-threading & synchronisation
Linux development environments
Debugging (e.g. GDB) and profiling (e.g. Perf)
Code validation (e.g. Valgrind, sanitizers)
API fundamentals
Python and Bash
Understanding of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) fundamentals
Experience with Git/Subversion and professional software build/validation processes
Desirable Skills
Autotools, CMake
CI tools such as Jenkins
Docker or containerisation environments
Video/audio formats, codecs, containers
SDI, SMPTE ST 2110
DSP (e.g. FIR filters)
ML/AI toolkits (TensorFlow, PyTorch)
Broadcast industry experience
You'll enjoy a raft of employee focused benefits including, 25 days' holiday plus a full Christmas shutdown, the opportunity to become a shareholder through the employee-ownership model, a 6% employer pension contribution, life assurance, optional private healthcare and a flexible benefits programme that includes holiday trading, a cycle-to-work scheme and a salary-sacrifice electric car option.
If you're looking for greater autonomy, deeper technical involvement and the chance to become part of a genuinely collaborative engineering culture, this could be the ideal next step. Apply now!
About the Company
Working as an extension of your internal recruitment team, MaxAd provides your organisation with a highly efficient, far-reaching recruitment service designed to give you instant access to the most relevant candidates for your vacancy in the shortest time possible. Over the last 10 years, MaxAd has introduced 100,000s of interview ready, screened candidates to a growing client base from a huge range of industry sectors all for one flat fee. We're proud to help our clients and partners slash their recruitment costs by providi...
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