Software Developer

Software Developer (CCTV Developer).

Location: Hedge End, Southampton, Hampshire

Number of Hours: 37.5

 

So, what’s the role all about?

Here at NICE Public Safety, we provide state of the art solutions for the Public Safety & Justice market, providing software as a service for multi-media evidence management to a worldwide customer base.

A critical part of our offering is ingesting and viewing an ever growing variety of media (video/audio) file types. NICE Public Safety has a specialist media file transcoding team who have developed world class expertise in media transcoding.  We have a vacancy for a developer to join this team.

 

We are looking for a talented Software Developer to join our team, with the scope including:

• Design of video and media transcoding solutions for NICE’s digital evidence management platform.
• Research into 3rd party video formats to understand how they are encoded.
• A successful candidate will be stimulated by analysis of systems to understand how they work.

 

How will you make an impact?

• Leading a multidisciplinary, distributed team. Ensuring high focus, motivation and collaboration.
• Design, implementation and developer-level test of CCTV audio/video format decoders.
• Reverse engineering on-disk data to determine file (container) format, audio/video codec and metadata (timestamps, GPS, …)
• Ensuring your code takes into account the concerns of security, scalability, compatibility and maintainability.
• Performing testing of your work, fixing defects and helping to resolve customer support cases.

 

Have you got what it takes?

Must have:

• A strong interest in problem solving faced with nominal written documentation.
• Aptitude for working autonomously and with minimal supervision.
• Ability to communicate effectively, including via email, instant message and video conferencing tools.
• Ability to work from first principles.
• Experience developing applications in C++ and C# using Visual Studio.
• A strong grasp of Windows development tools.
• Experience of unit testing, code reviews, and other product quality disciplines.
• Experience of Agile development processes.

 

You will have an advantage if you have:

• Experience of video and/or audio media processing.
• Experience in design of secure systems.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Visual Studio, .NET, JSON.
• Interest in learning new languages, platforms and technologies.
• Good knowledge of multithreaded and multi-process systems.

 

What’s in it for you?

NICE-FLEX!

At NICE, we work according to the NICE-FLEX hybrid model, which enables maximum flexibility: 2 days working from the office and 3 days of remote work, each week. Naturally, office days focus on face-to-face meetings, where teamwork and collaborative thinking generate innovation, new ideas, and a vibrant, interactive atmosphere.

 

• Position ID: 4140.
• Reporting into: Manager, Engineering.
• Job type: R&D.

 

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