Company Description
Technicolor Group is a creative technology company providing world-class production expertise driven by one purpose: The realization of ambitious and extraordinary ideas. Home to a network of award-winning studios, MPC, The Mill, Mikros Animation, and Technicolor Games, we inspire creative companies across the world to produce their most iconic work. Our global teams of artists and technologists partner with the creative community across film, television, animation, gaming, brand experience, and advertising to bring the universal art of storytelling to audiences everywhere.
Job Description
As a Mid Software Developer in the Core Engineering team, your role is to enhance the Core Platform to meet user and business needs. The Core Platform serves a wide-ranging purpose and caters to various user needs. While the role entails involvement across different areas of the platform such as feature development, bug fixing, and general enhancements. Your primary focus will be on crafting the foundational infrastructure, particularly the microservices platform and its related monitoring systems.
Primary Responsibilities
Work alongside teammates to enhance functionalities, troubleshoot issues, and boost efficiency throughout project's lifecycle.
Manage multiple high-visibility projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment, spanning across various business units or divisions, with a primary focus on delivering shows for Technicolor Group.
Ensure effective communication of tasks, challenges, and workflows across a globally dispersed team.
Collaborate with senior and lead developers to enhance tools and workflows in line with a global roadmap and evolving project requirements.
Create documentation, assist users during maintenance, and participate in exploratory demonstrations.
Help manage and resolve software or pipeline support tickets for your team, workstream, or product.
Seize learning opportunities whenever they arise.
Engage in sprint planning and provide independent estimates for completing tasks assigned by your Lead.
Utilize the prescribed methods and tools within Technicolor Group R&D's project management standards to track your progress.
Efficiently break down assigned stories/tasks into actionable steps and execute them with minimal supervision.
Identify and resolve issues at various levels of the technology stack, including production environment.
Ensure high code quality and consistently improve projects with each contribution.
Promote professional development standards.
Promote professional development standards and adoption of the Core Platform within MPC and other Technicolor business units.
Offer operational support for the platform as needed.
Qualifications
Skills and Experience
Well-versed in microservices architecture, design, and implementation.
Experience using Python for service backends, development infrastructure and desktop applications.
Understanding SQL and general database practices for query writing and optimization.
Experienced in managing large, complex projects in a high-tech development environment and utilizing development best practices.
Understanding of source control, specifically Git, and its associated best practices.
Skilled in a primarily Linux-based development and runtime environment.
Strong understanding of testing principles, especially TDD and/or BDD.
Demonstrated problem-solving abilities in technical, product, and business contexts.
Capable of examining technical solutions from various angles, encompassing algorithms, complexity, correctness, and maintainability.
Strong verbal and written communication skills combined with self-motivation and excellent organizational abilities.
Nice to Have
Experience with NuxtJS or similar frameworks is beneficial.
Understanding of various components used to develop micro-service frameworks (such as uWSGI, NGINX, RabbitMQ and Flask)
Basic understanding of k8/Kubernetes and Docker.
Familiarity with CI/CD best practices and promoting their adoption and enhancement.
Cloud exposure and experience in building cloud-native application
Tractor (Pixar) knowledge is an added advantage.
Understanding Python packages and frameworks like Flask, PyQt, PyMySQL, etc.
Familiarity with Agile and lean methodologies, with a desire to enhance processes in these areas.
Awareness of security protocols and practices to maintain content security.
Familiarity with Confluence and/or Jira platforms and experience working in Agile/Scrum methodology are preferred.
Exciting opportunity in the ever-evolving field of core engineering! Ambitious developers eager to work with cutting-edge technology are encouraged to apply.
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