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Lead Software Engineer, Build and Release

published at 20.11.2019 14:35

Location: London

Company: Foundry

Relocation Level: International

Remote support for this position: partial

THE TEAM.

Foundry is in search of a Lead C++ Software Engineer responsible for managing a small team specialising in maintaining and extending the Nuke Team’s cross-platform CMake/Conan build infrastructure, as well as our Python test system and tools.  

You will work as part of our Nuke development team and will collaborate closely with other Lead Engineers, Developers and QA engineers in order to gather requirements to help define the project roadmap. You will help to drive the architecture and development of the build and test systems, contributing C++ and Python code, as well as helping to guide and mentor other Engineers with our systems. 

You'll line manage the build and test team, ensuring their career development and managing performance where relevant. As the person responsible for their delivery, you'll liaise with stakeholders internally and externally to ensure that tech debt is flagged and resolved, and that prioritisation and allocation of the team is in line with priorities and expectations. You'll ensure the team are happy, motivated, and productive, taking responsibility for hiring decisions in conjunction with the Engineering Manager to ensure team fit, as well as resolving conflict/disagreement where it occurs.  

The ideal candidate is the sort of lead or senior that knew their team could make much better use of their tools, and then rolled up their sleeves to push through major build system improvements to the benefit of everyone. You probably care about compiler features and you can often spot a problematic build flag a mile off. You care that an incremental build is as fast as possible to improve C++ iteration times. You understand and care about how libraries, symbols and linkage can affect correctness, build times and symbol clashes, and you appreciate that each OS is different and may need to be handled accordingly. 

This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in the team that develops the industry-leading compositing package for the VFX industry. You’ll bring your existing skills, and also learn new ones, as we continuously strive for improvement in software development and deployment. 

Need some more information? Email chloe.campbell@foundry.com with any questions or queries!

THE RESPONSIBILITIES.

• Lead a team to improve, maintain, develop, document and implement automated build, release, and test pipelines. Your aim would be to empower the various Nuke sub-teams to make their own minor tweaks and fixes so they can function without your help, while you focus on bigger improvements.
• Improve Nuke's Conan & CMake-based build system, and review changes to the build system from your colleagues to ensure it continues improving.
• Improve test harness framework code, including static analysis functionality, Python frameworks used by QA engineers and white-box test code used by software engineers.
• With respect to the above items, you will collaborate with Foundry's cross-product Platform Team to help them improve things Foundry-wide.
• Play an active part in aiding troubleshooting of the pipeline, collating and prioritising feedback to input back into the roadmap for both your work and that of the Platform Team.
• Optimise Nuke’s use of our internal build/test farm throughout the lifecycle, with a view to deploying some of this infrastructure into the cloud in the future.
• Help to create and manage branches for feature development and releases, taking into account available CI resources.
• Troubleshoot and fix problems in the C++ application code arising from code integrations.
• As with all Software Engineer roles at Foundry, you will help to ensure the quality, scalability, and extensibility of the code that we’re writing - starting with your own but extending to code reviews and design of others as well.

THE REQUIREMENTS.

• 5 years of experience in software development in a commercial environment.
• Experience of leading or mentoring more junior developers.
• Strong experience with cross-platform C++.Strong experience of a build system (e.g. CMake, ninja, Make, QMake or SCons). CMake experience would be strongly preferred.
• Excellent knowledge of at least one compiler (e.g. GCC, Clang, Visual Studio, Intel) and linker from a usage perspective.
• Experience of Version Control Systems (e.g. Perforce, Git).Expertise with building and release desktop software on one desktop OS (Windows, Linux and macOS) with experience of at least one other OS.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Qt and Python experience beneficial.
• Experience with other software builds, packaging and release mechanisms beneficial (e.g. Conan, Premake etc.).

PERKS & BENEFITS.

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Pension scheme & life assurance
• Health cash plan & medical insurance
• Season ticket loan
• Company’s social events
• Beer O’Clock Fridays
• Gym Discounts
• Learning & development plans
• Foundry’s discount & saving scheme

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

THE COMPANY.

Foundry develops creative software for the digital design, media and entertainment industries. With a 20-year heritage and a portfolio of award-winning products, Foundry advances the art and technology of visual experience in partnership with creative leaders around the globe.
Clients and partners include major feature film studios and post-production houses such as Pixar, ILM, MPC, Walt Disney Animation, Weta Digital, DNEG, and Framestore as well as automotive, footwear, apparel and technology companies such as Mercedes, New Balance, Adidas and Google. Foundry partners with these companies to solve complex visualization challenges to turn incredible ideas into reality.

The company’s products are used to create breathtaking visual effects sequences on a wide range of feature films, video-on-demand, television and commercials. Foundry software was integral in the making of every VFX Oscar-winning film, award-winning TV shows and commercials for more than a decade. 

Founded in 1996, Foundry is headquartered in London, with 300 staff and a presence in the US, China, Japan, Australia and Europe. In 2015, the London Stock Exchange named Foundry one of the “1000 Companies to Inspire Britain.” It regularly features in The Sunday Times’ Tech Track as one of Britain’s fastest-growing private technology companies. 

For more information visit www.foundry.com.

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