Core Software Engineer (Python)

Job title:

Core Software Engineer (Python)

Company

ITV

Job description

Core Software Engineer
Content Supply Technology – CS&D
Permanent, Full-time
Location: Leeds or London (hybrid working patterns apply)Hiring range: £50,000 – £65,000For more information please email [email protected]Your work matters to millions.Shaping culture is in the DNA of ITV. So, it’s not surprising that you’ll find us in every home in the UK, our productions are famous all over the world and we’re at the forefront of the digital streaming revolution.When you join us, you enter a fun working environment. With opportunities to learn, to grow and make a real difference. Small enough that your impact’s felt in the business, but big enough that your impact reaches millions of people.Come develop your skills, change TV and the course of your career. Don’t just watch it. Be part of it. Join ITV.Your impact sends ripples.The teamContent Supply and Distribution (CS&D) is a key group within ITV’s Media & Entertainment business that is responsible for managing 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.A strategic initiative within our rich and varied portfolio is the Content Services Platform (CSP) for ITV Studios’ Global Partnerships (GP) business. At the heart of the CSP will be the SDVI Rally product that will help the technology and operations teams in CS+D to transform and automate the content workflow. For the ITV Studios GP business this means less risk for fulfilling their orders, better visibility of status and costs and crucially the ability to scale up their sales volumes unconstrained by manual workflows. All in all a more modern, connected and scalable ecosystem for the business.The roleWe are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced software engineer to join our software engineering function in CST, while also strengthening links with our operations teams. This role is a fantastic opportunity to help us build, support and develop the Content Services Platform as part of the project team for the build phase in 2024 and beyond this, provide ongoing support to deliver and maintain the platform.To ensure success in this role, you should have an analytical mindset, 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.Key responsibilities

• 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 cross functional Agile development team to deliver high quality solutions within wider project deadlines.
• Use extreme programming practices including pair programming for engineering solutions and knowledge sharing as part of a self organising Scrum team.
• 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.
• 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.
• Experience 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 interpersonal skills.
• Solid understanding of engineering best practices.
• 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 creating and maintaining custom Python libraries
• Experience with serverless components, such as AWS Lambda

ITV is for everyone.ITV strongly encourages applications for this role from disabled people. As a Disability Confident Leader, if you meet the minimum criteria for a role and you have declared that you are disabled, we’ll guarantee to take you to the next stage* (minimum criteria above).We’re happy to discuss any support/personalisation you may need during our application and selection process as part of our reasonable adjustments. Drop us a line if you require anything at .about applying with a disability.

• There may be a few exceptions where we are not able to take all eligible candidates to the next stage due to the volume of applications.

Because those who make an impact deserve to be rewarded for it.ITV offers some great rewards and benefits including

• Flexible working with a range of options
• Generous holiday allowance, plus you can buy more
• Annual bonus opportunity
• Competitive pension contribution
• Save as you earn – with an opportunity to buy ITV shares
• Wellbeing and volunteering days plus a wide range of opportunities to help you live a balanced and healthy life

Closing date: 05/08/2024

Expected salary

£50000 – 65000 per year

Location

London – Leeds

Job date

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 02:07:08 GMT

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