Senior Software Developer (Job Req #2024-283)

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 Camera Motion Systems team is seeking a senior full stack developer to help shape, design, build, and maintain the operator-facing control system for our robotics product line.

You are passionate about coding and enjoy using various development tools and frameworks to create highly functional user experiences. You enjoy exploring new ideas and know how to test your work quickly and effectively.

We value experience in multi-threading, design patterns, best practices such as Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Development, Behavior Driven Development, high performance design, and Agile software methodologies.

We work in an Agile environment, with a flat structure that encourages minimal oversight and encourages freedom and flexibility to complete your task.

Who you report to: Senior Manager, Software Development

What we offer

Ross offers competitive salaries and comprehensive health plans, as well as several perks to help you perform at your best.

Some of these perks include 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 an energizing environment here.

What the job is all about:

• Work with the team to design and develop a modern, scalable, and secure control system for managing and controlling camera robots.
• Engage in the complete software development lifecycle: requirements gathering, scoping, design, implementation, documentation, testing, and maintenance.
• Write code across the full stack: UI, server application, and data storage.
• Conduct design and code reviews for team members, promoting high-quality work, sound software methodologies, and attention to detail.
• Produce clean, testable, and efficient code based on specifications.
• Collaborate with the UX team to create a beautiful, coherent application.
• Create technical documentation for reference and reporting.
• Coach and mentor other developers on the team.
• Assist tech support and/or customers in resolving technical issues when required.
• Pragmatically advocate for new tools, technologies, and approaches that can benefit the team and our products.
• Collaborate with team lead to plan and schedule work for the team.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with other teams.
• Occasionally travel to customer sites to conduct and assist with beta trials.
  
  

Who you are:

• 8+ years of software development experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related field of study.
• Demonstrated project experience in scalable web systems architecture, with considerable front-end and back-end coding experience.
• Proficient full stack web developer in modern, secure web technologies.
• Enjoy working in a team environment and have experience leading teams.
• Understand the value of leveraging company platforms to accelerate value delivery to end-users.
• Know when a product is “good enough” and prefer working on the next feature rather than gold-plating an existing one.
• Value good test automation and actively contribute to unit test development.
• Strong interpersonal and observational skills.
• Exceptional analytical skills for solving complex technical problems.
• Proactive self-starter passionate about technology, quick learner, and able to work with minimal supervision to meet schedules and project deadlines.
• Able to work independently or as part of a team.
• Able and willing to regularly visit the Ottawa lab as required.
• Object-oriented software design.
• Interest in implementing development processes and adopting best practices to enhance quality and performance.
• Familiarity with Git and Gitlab.

Bonus points if you have the following:

• Experience with React.
• Experience with Java Enterprise Edition or ASP.NET Core.
• Experience with Equinox/OSGi, and/or Spring.
• Experience with cloud-based applications, deployment to AWS or Azure.
• Experience working in an Agile Scrum software development team.
• Knowledge and experience with Domain Driven Design, Hexagonal Architecture, Test Driven Development, and Behavior Driven Development.
• Interest in implementing development processes and adopting best practices to enhance quality and performance.
• Experience in television or video production, especially in video acquisition.
• Experience in the broadcast industry.

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.