Software Engineer, Foundry
Engineering Experience
2 days a week in office
Advancing the art and technology of visual experience
Job no longer available
Advancing the art and technology of visual experience
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
2 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To advance the art and technology of visual experience in partnership with creative leaders around the globe.
Role
Who you are
- Degree in Engineering/Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
- 2+ years commercial experience underpinned by best practises (e.g. BDD, TDD, Code Review)
- Good track record of problem-solving
- Successful experience of working in a development team
- Cross-platform development across at least two of macOS, Linux and Windows
- Excellent knowledge of C++, knowledge of Python beneficial
- Good interpersonal skills, coupled with good written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with cross-platform C++ build tooling, (e.g. CMake, Conan)
- Experience of automated testing of C++ code
What the job involves
- This role is an exciting opportunity for a developer with commercial experience
- You'll be an overall influence on the team you are part of without explicit line management
- You'll have developed good awareness of the SDLC, working as a second pair of eyes and ears to the engineer leading your team
- This includes contributing to design/architectural discussions, in addition to using your domain experience in the relevant areas to interact with customers to help troubleshoot/solve their problems
- You'll work on bug fixes and new features as part of one of our Agile teams
- This will combine significant contributions to the task breakdown and discussion both for your own tasks and those of your team, drawing on your experience and knowledge of technology and existing libraries and components
- As part of this work, input to architectural design, documentation and education is expected
- Foundry has two internally facing teams that focus on developer productivity
- One focusses on tooling using python scripting, web technology, or deployment issues
- The second - and the role that is open here, focuses on tooling for our C++ software components, including build systems, libraries, toolchains, and test frameworks
- Responsible for a consistent, reliable, secure build stack across the entire Foundry portfolio, this team is responsible for tooling where lower level knowledge is needed
- The quicker product teams can turn around a bug fix, or spin up build/test infrastructure for a branch to get feedback on an idea, the more successful this team will have been
- Similarly, the speed with which a new developer/QA - whether an internal transfer or new hire - can become productive the more successful this team will have been
- This team is also responsible for setting product teams up to be able to service security patching, VFX platform, and other component upgrades as easily as possible
- Whilst generally not working on products directly, where applicable they will join with product teams to achieve a specific goal
- It is likely that the members of this team will have experience with Foundry products to get context for proposed changes and improvements to this centralised technology
- Whilst this team is primarily responsible for internal code - there’s no reason why they can’t overlap into code delivery if that is the priority
- Assist in the design, implementation and documentation of complex software features, through authoring, reviewing, and bug fixing code
- Investigates feature level issues and impediments to sprint work and proposes solutions that move work forward
- Understand, practice and refine our development process within the team
- Take responsibility for complex project areas
- Improve the quality and stability of the product with maintenance bug fixes, and using domain appropriate design practices that emphasise reusability, testability, extensibility and maintainability
- Contribute to project planning by providing effort estimates for the team’s future work
- Assist our Customer Support team with investigations and suggestions related to issues reported by users
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The Foundry's products help tackle complex visualisation challenges in the creative industry, for example to create amazing digital effects or sequences for feature films. As technology advances, the scope of amazing things that can be done with video increases but so does the complexity.
Clients include industry leaders like Pixar, Walt Disney, Google and Mercedes, so their product is clearly up to scratch. The challenge will continuing to advance their product to keep up with new technologies to stay ahead of the competition.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
30% female employees
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Pension scheme & life assurance
- Health cash plan & medical insurance,
- Season ticket loan
- Company’s social events
- Anniversary day off
- Passion Days
- Flexible working
- Learning & development plans
- Annual Personal Development Time
Company values
- Customer obsessed
- Action oriented
- Innovative and excellent
- Resilient and committed
Company HQ
Soho, London, UK
Leadership
Simon Robinson
(Chief Scientist)Began their career at IBM Research in New York. Studied Computer Science at Cambridge. They are the Advisor for the Executive Team at ZeroLight.
Jody Madden
(CEO, not founder)Held COO, CCO and CPO roles at Foundry before becoming the CEO. Previously a senior manager at Lucasfilm and COO at Digital Domain (visual effects).
People progressing
Joined as a QA Engineer. Promoted to Lead QA Engineer after 2 years. Then promoted again to Product Designer after 3 years. They are currently the Principal Product Designer.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Foundry
- We know that creating an inclusive environment that values and encourages different perspectives is critical for our success, and the success of our people. We are learning, listening and taking action to be better and foster trust in our community. Our goal is to ensure every person working at Foundry feels safe and free to be themselves, to share their ideas or concerns and that there is equal access to opportunities for all
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