[Hiring] Senior C++ Developer @SOUTHWORKS

Role Description

We’re looking for a Senior C++ Engineer with strong experience building high-performance streaming video players across Smart TVs, Set Top Boxes, and Consoles.

• Build and maintain C++ based Streaming Video Players to run on Smart TV, Set Top Box, or Gaming Console platforms.
• Build video player plugins using GStreamer.
• Research and evaluate potential technical solutions.
• Make design decisions on video player architecture.
• Enable Microsoft PlayReady, Google Widevine DRM protection for video player plugins.
• Optimize video playback performance, time-to-first-frame (TTFF).
• Maintain technical documentation.
• Work and collaborate in teams with engineers, testers, product managers, etc.
• Work in an Agile, iterative development process.
• Committing to deliver timely results.

Qualifications

• 7 years of experience in C/C++ programming.
• Experience in low level native TV platform application development (NDK) such as Roku/FireTV/tvOS/WebTV.
• Experience with projects that target high refresh rate performance.
• Familiarity with open-source multimedia projects like MPEG, GStreamer, and WebRTC.
• Experience building a streaming video player (in C++ preferred).
• Strong experience in video streaming protocols such as HLS, Low-Latency HLS, MPEG DASH, CMAF, RTP, RTMP, Timed Metadata (ID3).
• Familiarity with technologies for developing on Smart TVs, Set Top Boxes, and Gaming Consoles such as Samsung Tizen, Vizio, Hisense, XBOX, PlayStation or others.
• Knowledge of Multilingual Text Tracks for Closed Captioning and Subtitle Formats such as WebVTT.
• Knowledge of Multilingual Audio and Audio Description Tracks.
• Strong experience with DRM protection schemes such as MPEG Common Encryption, FairPlay, Widevine, PlayReady.
• Basic understanding of VOD and linear video workflows using ingest, transmuxing, encoding, SSAI, packaging, and playout.
• Basic understanding of streaming media in a multi-CDN environment.
• Strong experience with adaptive bit rate (ABR) ladder algorithms.
• REST API usage and development.
• Basic understanding of modern video codecs like HEVC, H.265K, H.264, VP8, VP9, AV1.
• Knowledge of Dolby Vision and HDR.
• Strong experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Understand how to write clean and testable code.
• Able to work on a large scope project from start to finish.
• Be capable of being an owner of a specific component or feature.
• Familiar with Jira, Confluence tools and communicate tasking estimation and progress regularly to a project manager, Scrum Master.

Requirements

• Contract, per-project.
• Remote - within LATAM time zones (GMT-3 to GMT-5).
• Contractor (40 hours per week).

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