Senior iOS Streaming Engineer (Video)

Senior IOS Streaming Engineer (Hybrid)

Day Rate - £500- £700 (Based on Experience)
Contract – 6 months (Potential for Permanent Role)
Location – Remote 

Are you passionate about creating immersive and seamless digital experiences? Do you thrive on the cutting edge of technology and enjoy building stunning user interfaces? Are you looking for a long-term project you can get your teeth into?
If you are skilled in OTT and Streaming, we have the perfect role for you! (Must Have Recent Streaming Experience)

Role Overview:

You will join one of the worlds largest media streaming platforms. Your role will be to build, deploy, and maintain our media streaming platform. The team controls playback end-to-end, from transcoding uploaded media all the way to custom-embedded players in our native and web apps. We handle petabytes of data and gigabytes per second of traffic and strive to provide the best playback experience to our users.


Qualifications and Experience:

• 5 years of programming experience using Swift or other similar language. Experience building consumer apps is a must.
• Knowledge of or previous experience with VOD is a must, including experience working with video playback on iOS/tvOS apps.
• Knowledge of UIKit is a must, SwiftUI is a plus.
• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent work experience.
• At least 1 year of experience in a tech leadership role is preferred.
• Experience building dynamic customer-facing apps that use RESTful APIs to operate. Hands-on expertise in disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between.
• Experience with large-scale application architecture, design, scalability, testability, implementation, and performance tuning.
• Experience in modern DevOps/SRE practices such as CI/CD, performance monitoring & incident management.
• Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
• Excellent communication skills, working with multiple stakeholders (internal and external partners) with different goals, objectives, and aspirations. Effective communication and strong negotiation skills will be key.
• Provide guidance on design, coding, and operational best practices and contribute to technical documentation. Recommend technical developments and software to enhance/improve our app or the developer experience.
• Mentor junior engineers, overseeing their designs, code quality, and integration into a team.
• Rotate follow the sun support with other team members to monitor and debug critical production issues.
• Desire to be involved in cross-platform projects on a large scale in 10 countries.
• Experience with key design and architectural patterns such as MVVM, MVP and SOLID principles.
• Experience with Test Driven Development and associated frameworks.

This is a fantastic opportunity to secure a position on a long-term project for one of Europe’s experts in systems for Over-The-Top and broadcast companies. 
 
As this is an urgent requirement apply now to ensure consideration!