Pixelogic Media Partners, LLC provides distribution services and technology solutions to the entertainment industry. We help studios, broadcasters and digital retailers localize and distribute their feature and episodic titles to global audiences on-time and with superior quality.
Our service offerings cover end-to-end workflows including language services such as scripting, subtitling, access services, dubbing, text and metadata localization in over 50 languages. Our technical services master and prepare this content in all distribution products including digital cinema, digital media and physical media (Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD).
To date, we serviced thousands of titles for iTunes, Google Play, YouTube, Netflix, Amazon, Movies Anywhere and others. We also authored thousands of Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD titles. Our research and development team works on cutting-edge technologies such as 4K, high dynamic range (Dolby Vision, HDR10+), artificial intelligence and machine learning, software automation and our proprietary end-to-end operating platform branded as pHelix.
Experience start-up at scale. Be part of building innovative solutions to service our media and entertainment clients and help us fulfill their content distribution needs. Join us if you’re passionate about entertainment, innovation and customer service excellence!
We are looking for a Backend Team Lead who has comprehensive knowledge in Ruby on Rails, is highly familiar with distributed service architectures and has already successfully led the development of complex web applications in a professional capacity.
Primary Responsibilities:
- You bring in your enthusiasm, knowledge and skills to develop the most advanced SaaS solution for audiovisual content management and distribution
- You advise and coordinate your teammates as well as third-party developers to craft robust, highly optimized software components
- You prototype, conceptualize and optimize features for various web applications
- You review team members’ code to ensure high-quality and continuous learning and ensuring all code contributions match the conventions you’ve helped to set up
- You ensure that all development is state of the art, easy to maintain and simple to use
- You mentor others by teaching best coding practices and by introducing new technologies and/or methodologies
- You work across teams with support, frontend, quality assurance and design to achieve company-wide goals
- You have 7+ years of experience in web application development
- You have programmed in Ruby on Rails for 5+ years
- You have experience in leading teams of at least 5 developers for 3+ years
- You have excellent knowledge of Postgres or another SQL database system
- You have decent experience in building and consuming JSON APIs
- You are passioned about building automated tests using RSpec
- You are familiar to Git and Git-based workflows, including GitHub code reviews
- You love teamwork as much as a clean and beautiful code
- You can find a balance between maintainability, security, performance, and flexibility
- You are into pair programming and agile methodologies
- You have a strong sense of responsibility and leadership
- You are a true team leader and enjoy sharing knowledge proactively
- You have a strong autonomy, self-discipline and ability to self-educate
- You are fluent in English
What you can surprise us with:
- First hands experience with DevOps tools and environments
- Infrastructure deployment using Docker containers
- Hands-on experience in other modern programming languages
- Knowledge about video processing and streaming
- A company culture that respects your working hours with very attractive compensation package.
- Broad flexibility in how, when and where you work (hybrid work model).
- Free choice of working tools and software you are most familiar with.
- Modern CMS / Asset management platform with a fascinating growth perspective.
- Fast-moving company of smart, curious people who work hard but with fun every day.
Top Skills
What We Do
Pixelogic provides next-generation distribution solutions for studios, broadcasters and digital retailers.
OUR MISSION
To help our media and entertainment customers build more efficient supply chains, more valuable products,
and larger global audiences.
WORLD CLASS TEAM
Our team is comprised of subject matter experts and industry craftsmen who are passionate about their work, each having an extensive background working on the world’s most respected feature and episodic titles. We cultivate an open and transparent atmosphere that values integrity, continuous improvement and achievement. Our clients benefit from our forward looking approach and relentless commitment to customer service.
SECURITY FIRST
Our commitment to content security is foundational to our company. Every employee is involved in our security program, which includes hundreds of physical and electronic security controls. We are directly engaged with the various security organizations within the media and entertainment industry including the Content Delivery & Security Association (CDSA) and now the Trusted Partner Network (TPN). Our research and development group builds proprietary content protection solutions to fortify our overall security mission. Net-net, we are fully committed to the safeguarding of our customer’s content and our security program is constantly evolving and continuously improving.
