Backend Engineer

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Digital Media • News + Entertainment • Software
The Role
As a Backend Engineer, you will develop and enhance Viz One, the media asset management system, utilizing container-based deployments and collaborating on Proof of Concepts. You'll optimize performance, create test automation, and improve existing code quality while working in an agile environment.
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Description

Vizrt One Media AB is seeking a full-time Software Engineer to join the Media Asset Management (MAM) business unit in the Stockholm office where you will be working with the platform team who go all-out to produce the broadcasting market’s most competitive client facing applications, improving the daily work for TV anchors, journalists, editors, producers, operators, video editors and graphics artists around the world.

We set clear goals, honor performance and celebrate success. You care about our business, our customers and your own personal growth and contribute with your innovation and ideas.

About the role:

  • You will work with the team to deliver container based deployment and workflows for Viz One, our media asset management system.
  • Collaborate with stake holders on Proof of Concepts (PoCs) to explore new ideas and technologies.
  • Contribute to the development of new features and enhancements in existing products and components.
  • Work with the team to gradually modernize and future proof our product codebases.
  • Support professional services to deliver projects to our customers to meet established scope and deadlines.
  • Develop and maintain test automation to validate software functionality.
  • Identify performance bottlenecks and work with stakeholders to optimize software performance.
  • Maintain and improve the quality of existing code.
Requirements
  • Experience with at least one high level programming language (e.g. Python, Perl) and/or one lower level programming language (e.g. C++, Go).
  • Experience with cloud services (AWS is ideal), containers, and/or Kubernetes.
  • An understanding of AI products and features particularly in the areas of semantic search or video analysis.
  • Knowledge of audio and video encoding is a plus.
  • Experience with relational databases is a plus.
  • Experience implementing RESTful API services is a plus.
  • Experience of working in an agile/scrum environment.
Benefits

We offer an exciting position in an open and friendly environment where we help each other to develop and create value. Your work will have a true impact on Vizrt's future success.

  • Work-Life balance as it plays an important role in generating long-lasting productivity and output.
  • A workplace that believes strength is found in diversity.
  • Rewards - you will enjoy flexible working hours, competitive remuneration, an attractive pension package, health care insurance, wellness allowance, and other benefits.
  • The Stockholm office has approximately 70 employees of more than 20 different nationalities represented at the office. We are in a brand-new office in Lilla Bantorget, 6 min walk from the central station in Stockholm.
  • The stories we tell are unique. We'd love to hear yours.

Recruitment Process

  • Recruiter Screening
  • Team Interview
  • Technical Discussion
  • Final Interview

Top Skills

C++
Go
Perl
Python
The Company
Bergen
865 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

Vizrt is the leader in real-time graphics and live production solutions for content creators.

With a 25-year history of inventing new simplified workflows for storytelling whether it is in the news, sports, broadcast, education, entertainment, live events, digital media, advertising, or anywhere else video lives, Vizrt has helped define and reshape the way video is created and shared with the world.

Dedicated to delivering ground-breaking solutions for customers across graphics, cloud, remote and live production, live streaming, sports productions, virtual reality and virtual studios, and infrastructure – Vizrt enables more stories, better told.

In a world where attention spans are short, grabbing and holding onto audiences for entertainment, education or information requires craft, design, and vision. Vizrt’s team of 24/7 on-call experts and market-leading creative solutions, offers everything storytellers need to dazzle audiences, simply, effectively, and beautifully.

Billions of people watch stories or video powered by Vizrt everyday including from media companies such as Al Arabiya, Al Jazeera, BBC, CNN, CBS, ESPN, FOX, NBC, NHL, NFL, NRK, Sky Group, The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, New York Giants, Nickelodeon, CBS Radio, ESPN Radio, MTV, USA TODAY, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), NASA, PWC, and more than 80% of the U.S. Fortune 100.

Vizrt is a global company with 700 employees in over 40 countries and is privately owned by Nordic Capital

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