Lead Software Engineer in London

HBS specializes in the media production, distribution and archiving of sports tournaments.

With the transition to remote productions, HBS is now offering these services through the cloud.

This Media Cloud is being used for hundreds of matches per year in the Americas, Europe and Africa.

The Software Engineering Team is looking for a Lead Engineer to advance an existing asset management system, as well as to create a new set of tools for managing video production resources in the cloud.

The technical environment is an AWS serverless system using Lambda, Step-functions, various Media components such as MediaLive as well as other related AWS services.

• Master coder in Node.js/TypeScript (AWS Serverless) and familiar with React
• Be the main code contributor to the development of the platform, able to independently tackle open issues and tickets at a steady pace with a high level of code quality.
• Take ownership of the architecture of the system. Understand how the different components work, including the underlying AWS services, how the code is structured (with a focus on back-end services), and to be able to lead discussions on the evolution of the architecture.
• Set coding standards, and review code written by more junior engineers to ensure their work meets quality standards
• Ensure the well running of the systems through maintaining and enacting upon testing methodologies, and take ownership when system failures occur
• Facilitate the smooth function of the development team through organising and leading agile contact moments and related agile artifacts (such as ensuring a steady pace of incremental releases).

Key Interactions :

• Internal software engineers
• Freelance technical consultant and engineers
• Key technology suppliers
• Product Owner and Project or Programme Managers
• Operations Team

Position relevant skills :

• Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• 5 or more years experience with working on API based back-end systems preferably related to media management or live video workflows
• Experience coding in JavaScript/TypeScript
• Experience with event driven architecture
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code
• Experience with relational and non-relation (NoSQL) database systems
• Experience designing and operating cloud based distributed, scalable and highly available systems (preferably AWS certified)
• Familiar with React
• Good communication skills to facilitate requirements analysis, and articulate technical trade-offs
• Fluent in both spoken and written English

General Skills :

HBS is looking for people who enjoy working in a fast-paced international environment, are highly customer service oriented, can learn quickly, have a strong sense of responsibility, and who work well as part of a team.

In addition, a hands-on approach, flexibility, and the ability to work under pressure are required.

We require fluency in English.