Senior Software Developer (Job Req #2024-185)

Why Work at Ross Video? We have a great group of people working together to create and deliver cutting edge products that look amazing and are easy to use. We go all out so that our customers can have the best possible experience and achieve quality results. With a product focus, continual learning, results driven processes, and creative thinking, we constantly strive to improve our solutions and to deliver results. If you've ever watched live television, news, sports, or entertainment, you've seen our products in use. All of the major Hollywood award shows, most professional sports teams, and many of the largest broadcasters in the world use Ross Video technology. Get behind the scenes and learn about what it takes to make live events possible. If that resonates, and you’re someone with integrity, commitment, and a strong drive to deliver great products, we’d love to hear from you.

The ideal candidate is part of our software team creating world-leading next generation broadcast video processing technology including compressed video streaming.    He/she coordinates with the product manager on overall product vision and leads a team in the design of new products and the improvement of existing products.

Our team is Agile and DevOps aligned, with a focus on continuous learning and automation.  We hold backlog refinements and post-mortems, regularly tackle technical debt and reserve time for innovation.

If you've ever watched live television, news, sports, or entertainment, you've seen our products in use. Major award shows, most professional sports teams, and many of the largest broadcasters in the world use Ross Video technology. Get behind the scenes and learn about what it takes to make live events possible.

Who you report to: Director TPM, Edge Technologies, KVM

What we offer:

Ross offers competitive salaries and comprehensive health plans, as well as several perks to help you perform at your best - including flexible hours, generous paid time off, fitness/wellness allowance, employee share ownership program, development support and a ton of fun social activities and events! Best of all, you will be part of the Ross Video family, and we’ve got a pretty energizing environment here.

What the job is all about:

• Participate in Agile Scrum ceremonies like retrospectives, refinement, and sprint kick-offs
• Participate in a daily scrum meeting and work with team members afterward to resolve a blocking integration issue
• Work with an FPGA designer to help debug a lab issue and create code to help gather additional telemetry and status information
• Participate in a design/code review of a field system update software and provide your feedback on how to better handle a fault condition
• Review test coverage strategy and provide feedback to further improve coverage or to scale back based on acceptable risk
• Work with a hardware and software designer to resolve a FIFO overflow issue
• Implement in C++ a driver that controls a hardware accelerator to perform color correction for high dynamic range video
• Document an API to support integration with another software team
• Design a thread safe register interface module for a high-speed register interface
• Host a post-mortem, capture the feedback, and make plans for changes
• Discuss the implementation of a new customer requested feature with the marketing team and product manager
• Work with the project manager to identify key project milestones and integrations
• Help maintain the Linux R&D build server and create a script to add a new feature to our build automation flow
• Meet with software and RTL designers to propose a lab integration strategy
• Teach a new hire how to analyze network packets with Wireshark
• Perform other related duties as required

As a team leader, the candidate will also be expected to oversee the following:

• Propose a vision or theme for the next sprint
• Review the backlog, add stories, points and prioritize
• Lead the design team, other cross functional teams, suppliers and customers to ensure the overall design and each specified sub-system meets all requirements according to an established project plan
• Provide significant technical leadership to design review preparation, execution, and timely action item closure for complex issues
• Document the design to a high standard for internal and customer review
• Effectively communicate technology applications and benefits to a wide audience including customers and design partners.
• Coach and mentor team members to attain breakthrough results in assigned deliverables

Who you are:

• Bachelors degree in computer science, computer engineering, software engineering or related discipline
• Experienced with C and C++
• Experience leading software and mixed discipline development teams
• Experience with ARM multi-processor systems within an embedded Linux environment
• Possess experience developing under Linux with GNU tool chain
• Experience working with scripted tool flow (tcl, perl, sh), source control
• Experience working with lab equipment to debug complex designs that could involve multiple people.
• Knowledge of TCP/IP networking including familiarity with UDP, TCP, HTTP, FTP, SLP, Zeroconf.
• Knowledge of software design for embedded system with a mix of application, library and driver development is an asset
• Ability to resolve memory leaks and deadlocks
• Knowledge of creating hardware stubs for simulated testing
• Experience performing static code analysis
• Knowledge of revision control systems, branching and tagging methodologies
• Expertise in software debugging through JTAG interfaces and logic analyzers
• Familiarity with hardware integration and lab tools

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Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
At Ross, we embrace diversity, and we want you to bring your authentic self to work. We are committed to building a team that includes a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Inclusivity drives innovation and creativity, and that’s something we’re passionate about at Ross!  We believe everyone should be able to enjoy a rewarding career at Ross, regardless of race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, veteran status, physical or mental disability. If a disability means that you need any additional support during the recruitment process, please contact Talent Acquisition and we will make all reasonable efforts to accommodate your request.