Software Engineer

ITV; Leeds; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated software engineer to enhance its content supply chain through innovative technology. This role offers a unique opportunity to work with cutting-edge tools like SDVI Rally, focusing on building efficient software solutions in Python. You will be part of a dynamic Agile team, contributing to the development of scalable architectures and high-quality code. The position emphasizes collaboration and problem-solving, making it ideal for those passionate about technology and continuous improvement. Join us to make a significant impact in the media and entertainment sector!

Qualifications

• Experience as a Python developer in a production environment.
• Strong analytical mindset with attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Engineer software in Python and ensure high code quality.
• Collaborate in an Agile team to deliver solutions.

Skills

Python Programming

API Development (REST, GraphQL)

Microservices Architecture

Agile Methodologies

Problem Solving

Communication Skills

Tools

AWS

GitHub

Jenkins

CI/CD Tools

Job description

The Role

The team

Content Supply and Distribution (CS&D) is a key group within ITV's Media & Entertainment business that is responsible for handling ITV's content and data from source to screen across linear and VoD supply chains.

The Content Supply Technology (CST) group develops and maintains the underpinning technology platforms, as well as the supporting functions of business analysis, architecture and project management. All this enables us to deliver ITVs famous and popular content from its multiple sources to our online platforms, to our B2B partners and to ITV's family of linear TV channels.

As part of our strategic initiative to simplify our content pipeline, we are integrating with the SDVI Rally product, a leading industry-recognised cloud-native supply chain management platform. This will help the technology and operations teams in CS&D simplify our content workflow, and give better visibility of status and costs in a more connected and scalable ecosystem for the business.

The role

We are looking for a hard-working and expert software engineer to join our software engineering function in CST, while also strengthening links with our operations teams. This role is a phenomenal opportunity to help us build out our M&E pipeline by integrating with SDVI Rally.

To ensure success in this role, you should have an analytical approach, and have extensive knowledge of the Python programming language and the software development life-cycle. You will also possess effective communication skills and be comfortable communicating at all levels.

We need our engineers to be versatile, team orientated and enthusiastic to take on new problems as we strive to improve and optimise our content supply chain processes.

As a Core Engineer you will

• Engineer software in the Python programming language to a high standard.
• Understand, develop and communicate software solutions and architecture collaboratively.
• Create readable, well architected and maintainable code.
• Be responsible for producing high quality, well tested code utilising a range of automated tests that allow for confident release into production.
• Write infrastructure as code to deliver cloud resources onto Amazon Web Services.
• Engage as part of a multi-functional Agile development team to deliver high quality solutions within extended project deadlines.
• Apply extreme programming practices such as pair programming within an engineering team following a self-organizing Scrum approach.
• Use Github, Jenkins and other repository or pipeline management solutions.
• Contribute to the discovery, scope, definition and sizing of tasks and ticket breakdown for initiatives entering the team.
• Support and translate the operational needs of the content delivery and ops teams into efficient, practical solutions and processes.

Skills you'll need (minimum criteria)

• Experience as a Python developer working with recent Python versions in a production environment.
• Have the ability to write maintainable and testable code, with a rigorous approach and attention to detail.
• Analytical mindset, able to demonstrate logical reasoning and a structured approach to problem solving.
• Knowledge of building and working with APIs including REST and GraphQL, and a good knowledge of Microservices architecture and messaging systems such as AMQP or SNS/SQS.
• Familiarity with large system software design and development.
• Ability to work from your own initiative and as a part of a team, motivated for continuous learning and knowledge sharing.
• Strong communication, collaboration and social skills.
• Proficient in applying standard methodologies in engineering.
• Experience working with Agile methodologies.

Other things we're looking for (key criteria)

• Experience of working with SDVI Rally or any other media supply chain orchestrators.
• Experience mentoring Junior or less experienced engineers.
• Experience of media or broadcast related workflow systems or services.
• Experience writing and using Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) tools, such as GitHub Actions.
• Experience with serverless components, such as AWS Lambda.