Lead Software Engineer

Nuke

Nuke®, NukeX® and Nuke Studio® offer cutting-edge toolkits for node-based compositing, editorial and review. The Nuke family's unparalleled flexibility and collaborative workflows help you get the highest quality results—fast.

The Role

This role is an exciting opportunity to lead one of our Scrum teams, which is responsible for delivering high-impact features, feature updates and maintenance to the Nuke product. You'll be responsible for the technical output and quality of a team comprising Software and QA Engineers, guiding them to work as a cohesive development and testing unit, as well as being their line manager.

To be successful in your role you’ll need good knowledge of the software development lifecycle. You’ll work closely with the team’s Product Owner to help define the deliverables and scope of the features for which your team is responsible, helping to identify and mitigate risks in advance. You’ll report your team’s development status to stakeholders, detailing progress, impediments and risks in a timely manner. You’ll also provide recommendations on go/no go decisions for releases affecting your team. You'll interact with customers in areas of team expertise to understand and solve or mitigate any issues that arise with delivered features.

Job requirements

• Commercial experience (5+ years) of
• Developing and delivering for multithreaded, high-performance applications
• Industry standard programming practices, including code reviews and automated testing
• Excellent C++ knowledge
• Experience of working in an Agile environment (Scrum, Kanban, etc.)
• Experience of leadership via mentoring or line management
• Experience of contributing to hiring decisions
• Experience of understanding customer workflows and practices to aid leading technical design and requirement breakdown
• Experience of presenting progress of ongoing work and reporting risks and impediments to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience of customer-facing communication
• Well organised, good time management and ability to prioritise tasks effectively

Advantageous experience

• Cross-OS development on Linux, macOS (OS X) and Windows
• GUI application development, preferably with Qt
• Knowledge of Python
• Programming computer graphics and/or image processing applications in 2D/3D
• Optimisation experience, including the use of profiling software, such as Intel’s VTune or Xcode Instruments
• Knowledge of CMake, Conan, GitLab
• Knowledge of VFX post-production workflows, and compositing/finishing and/or colour science
• Writing automated tests

Job responsibilities

Using your technical skills and experience you’ll guide your team towards workable solutions, leading the breakdown and effort estimation of the work. You’ll also be responsible for ensuring that solutions are tested, validated and documented effectively by your team. As the person responsible for your team’s delivery, you should ensure that technical debt is flagged and resolved, and that targets and allocation of the team’s resources are in line with the expectations and prioritisation set by the Product Owner.

As a line manager and team leader, you'll need some management experience and working knowledge of Agile and Scrum. You'll ensure your team members’ career development and evaluate and manage performance. You’ll be resolving conflict or disagreement if it occurs, with support from an Engineering Manager. You'll ensure the team members are happy, motivated, and productive, and collaborate with your team to identify and implement organisation and process improvements if necessary. You’ll also be taking responsibility for hiring decisions in conjunction with the Engineering Manager.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Pension scheme & life assurance
• Health cash plan & medical insurance
• Season ticket loan
• Company’s social events
• Gym Discounts
• Personal Annual Development Time
• Passion Days
• Anniversary Day off

THE COMPANY.

Foundry has a heritage of more than 25 years, developing creative software for the Media and Entertainment industry. Its portfolio of award-winning products solves complex visualization challenges to turn incredible ideas into reality.

Working with creative leaders around the globe, Foundry products are used to create breathtaking visual effects and animation and have been integral in the making of every VFX Academy Award-winning film for the past decade.

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