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About the Role

This role is an exciting opportunity to be part of a development team responsible for delivering high-impact features, feature updates, and maintenance to the Katana product family. You will act as a technical specialist within your Scrum team and help ensure the quality, testability, scalability, robustness, and extensibility of our code.

Responsibilities

• Design, implementation, documentation, and testing of C++ and Python code.
• Collaborate with other Software Engineers, QA Engineers, Designers, and the Product Manager.
• Contribute to technical solutions and architecture.
• Mentor and support less experienced developers.
• Take the technical lead on complex tasks.
• Follow best software development practices and aid others in writing maintainable, efficient, and well-structured code.
• Contribute to development efforts outside of the Scrum team and support Katana Architects.
• Keep appraised of advances in the field of expertise and analyze competitors’ systems and architecture.
• Understand the business and wider industry.
• Communicate with internal and external stakeholders, understanding and sharing requirements and proposed solutions.
• Represent and support the company and the product at external events when appropriate.
• Understand, practice, and refine the development process within the team.
• Lead the design, implementation, and documentation of complex software features.
• Improve the quality and stability of the product with maintenance bug fixes.
• Participate in reviews of your own and colleagues’ code.
• Take a leading role in project planning by providing effort estimates and risk assessment for the team’s future work.
• Take a leading role in the creation of user stories for future work.
• Document work clearly and concisely in the source code.
• Assist the Customer Support team with investigations and suggestions related to issues reported by users.

Requirements

• Self-motivated and inquisitive C++ programmer.
• Experience developing high-performance commercial software.
• Knowledge of software engineering best practices.
• Extensive knowledge and experience of code architecture and design patterns.
• 7+ years experience developing for multithreaded, high-performance commercial applications.
• Excellent track record of problem solving.
• Good communication skills, well organized, good time management, ability to work independently.
• Experience of working independently & as part of a team to produce well-structured, effective code for others to build on.
• Experience of task breakdown and estimation, proposing solutions for designs and issues within the team's work.
• Experience of cross-OS development including Windows and Linux.
• Experience of GUI application development, preferably with Qt, is an advantage.
• Passionate and curious about technology in general, with a willingness to develop skills in the relevant technologies.
• Degree in Engineering/Computer Science (or equivalent experience).
• 3D experience, e.g. OpenGL/Vulkan, Rendering (Prman, Arnold, 3Delight).
• Experience of 3D tools, e.g. Katana, Houdini, Maya, 3DS Max.
• Knowledge of GitLab/Conan/CMake an advantage.

Skills

• Python
• C++
• Universal Scene Description (USD)
• USD’s Hydra
• VFX pipelines in post-production
• Code architecture
• Design patterns
• Multithreaded applications
• High-performance applications
• Problem solving
• Communication
• Organization
• Time management
• Independent work
• Teamwork
• Code structure
• Task breakdown
• Estimation
• Cross-OS development (Windows, Linux)
• GUI application development
• Qt
• 3D experience
• OpenGL
• Vulkan
• Rendering (Prman, Arnold, 3Delight)
• 3D tools (Katana, Houdini, Maya, 3DS Max)
• GitLab
• Conan
• CMake

Location

• Hybrid

Work Type

• Hybrid working - 2 days per week in office
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Principal Software Engineer
• 7+ years experience

Education Level

• Degree in Engineering/Computer Science (or equivalent experience)

Benefits

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Pension scheme & Life Assurance
• Health cash plan & Medical Insurance
• Season ticket loan
• Company’s social events
• Personal Annual Development Time
• Passion Days
• Anniversary Day off

About the Company

• Katana® is a highly efficient, collaborative look development and lighting solution that gives you the creative scope and scalability to meet the needs of today’s most demanding CG-rendering projects.
• Equally suited to both short and long-form animation and VFX projects, Katana's unique design lets you work with massive scenes and high volumes of shots; easily reuse looks; and make revisions without repeating scene setup work, so you can spend more time achieving higher quality results.
• Katana is a cross-platform (Linux & Windows) C++ application, which uses deep Python bindings for the parts of the system that are not time critical and Qt UI.
• As well as Python configurability, a set of APIs exists for customers to integrate Katana into their pipelines to use custom asset management, renderers, and more.