Software Engineer

WELCOME TO ZOO

ZOO Digital are an award-winning cloud software company with offices in Sheffield, London, LA, Dubai, Korea, and India. We help the biggest names in global entertainment to reach audiences everywhere with our high-quality localization and media services, adapting original TV and movie content for different languages, regions, and cultures.

Our Mission: To help our clients share their stories, by adapting the world’s most watched TV shows and movies into new formats and languages for international audiences to enjoy.

Our Clients: Major Hollywood studios and streaming services, like Disney, Netflix, NBC Universal, Paramount, Facebook, Sony, and HBO, among others.

Our Services: Dubbing, subtitling and captioning, audio description, metadata localization, artwork localization and media processing.

ZOO Digital’s state of the art technology services are backed by the award-winning bespoke software created by our ever-growing Research & Development team, ZOO Digital Labs. The team create cutting edge software solutions to supercharge our services and make our customers’ lives easier. To find out more, visit https://www.zoodigital.com/

Position:

About The Role

Salary: c£42,000 DOE

Location: Sheffield/Hybrid remote working

ZOO Digital currently have a fantastic opportunity for a Software Engineer to join our award-winning R&D Department. Research & Development work closely with the Product Support Team to create cutting edge software solutions for high profile and industry-leading customers.

The purpose of the Software Engineer role is to assist with all functions of software coding and design, demonstrating a strong knowledge of programming languages and software engineering paradigms. The Software Engineer will learn and understand the codebase(s) they work on and will respond to requests from senior developers, culminating in the delivery of high-quality products and services.

Day to day responsibilities will include;

• Planning, writing, maintaining, testing and documenting code use anywhere in the stack for ZOO’s software platforms
• Developing and providing software components that operate as part of a large multi-process system
• Managing a portfolio of projects, keeping communication channels with senior developers and project management open.
• Providing technical insights on codebases
• Developing features by producing clean, efficient code, consistent with the internal coding standards/requirements set out by ZOO
• Efficiently delivering to deadlines in line with ZOO’s quality standards
• Automating tasks through appropriate tools and scripting
• Reviewing and debugging code to ensure high quality, before submitting to repositories
• Identifying and championing appropriate technologies to complete software development tasks
• Taking ownership of features/products as appropriate, demonstrating pride in your work
• Assisting with task planning and estimation
• Collaborating with ZOO’s other internal teams, such as DevOps and QA, to fix and improve products
  
  

Requirements:

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We are looking for bright and experienced Software Engineers who are passionate about technology, pride themselves on their excellent standards, and are keen to work as part of an ever-growing, ever-developing team. Applicants who look to push themselves to the limits of their ability will thrive within this role. As well as strong programming experience in one or more Object-Oriented languages, the Software Engineer must also have the following experience;

• Commercial full stack development in an Agile environment is preferable.
• Experience of backend and frontend web development technologies
• Knowledge of database technologies is preferable
• A good understanding of software engineering processes and methodologies
  
  

Other information:

WHY CHOOSE ZOO?

Our technology is constantly evolving, so there’s never a dull moment with ZOO! Our team is made up of creatives, innovators, linguists, and collaborators from all corners of the world, and w e employ the brightest and most original thinkers in our industry. Along with a competitive salary, we also offer excellent company benefits, which include;

• Flexi time
• Westfield Health & Rewards Portal
• Pension scheme
• 25 days holiday
• Free fruit and snacks
• Staff Socials
  
  

We value all the folks that make ZOO a great place to work.