Software Engineer

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NEP Group is a world leader in live and broadcast production services, supporting premier events across sports, entertainment, and live events. Our teams design and deliver cutting-edge technical solutions that bring content to audiences worldwide. Within NEP, the TFC team plays a critical role in orchestrating complex multi-platform workflows, ensuring seamless integration between technology, operations, and clients.

NEP Australia is currently looking for an experienced Software Engineer to work with broadcast hardware and software to provide tooling and workflows that reduce the burden of complexity for Broadcast Engineers.

This role is based at our state of the art Andrew's HUB in Southbank, Melbourne. The role is primarily business hours, with hybrid options and may require occasional travel and weekend work.

The position

The ideal candidate would be an experienced software engineer who understands video, audio, networking technology and control system used across the media industry. You should demonstrate an understanding of challenges for large scale live events. You will be working closely with Commissioning and Support teams, Product Managers and sometimes users. Whilst we have a very competent support team you may occasionally be required to help with high profile productions.

Key Responsibilities but not limited to:

• Design and Implementation of new features
• Write secure, production-ready code (primarily in C++ and GoLang) and adapt to other languages when needed.
• Write tests for new and existing code and contribute to CI workflow
• Work closely within the team to iterate existing code
• Collaborate on team PRs or pair when appropriate
• Troubleshoot and Profile Code for bugs or performance issues
• Collaborate with Product Owners and Users to help refine user stories
• Highlight any quality or security issues you might identify
• Provide Documentation to Users and Commissioning teams
• Contribute and provide feedback to other team members
• Participate in continuous learning, education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team members
• Collaborate with other engineering teams on ensuring quality on for product delivery

Required skills and attributes:

• Multiple years of software development experience in C / C++
• Quickly familiarize yourself with new codebases and frameworks
• Broad understanding of coding and programming languages
• Strong understanding of networking protocols (HTTP, SDP, RTP) and broadcast standards (NMOS, ST2022, ST2110).
• Experience in Realtime video, audio processing and control systems
• Experience in Database, Data modelling, and microservices architectures advantageous
• Experience with Kubernetes and Containerisation advantageous

NEP believes that, first and foremost, the efforts of our people are what contribute to our successes. We offer a range of benefits that assist our team in their professional development and wellbeing, including:

• Salary continuance insurance
• NEP Days - additional 5 days of leave per year (conditions apply)
• NEP Travel benefits & discounts including Qantas Club Membership
• Discounts through Employment Hero Work app
• Employee Assistance Program

This is a full-time role and is a unique opportunity for the right person.

You must have the right to live and work in Australia to apply for this job.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

About Our Process

At NEP, we are committed to employing individuals who align with Our Values and meet the requirements of the role. As part of the recruitment process, there are several checks which may be conducted to demonstrate applicants' suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, right to work checks, and reference checks.

NEP is the largest media technology partner for content producers of live sports, entertainment, and corporate events globally. For more than 35 years, NEP has been delivering innovative products and services that enable clients to make, manage and show the world their content-anywhere, anytime, on any platform.

As a trusted partner working on some of the largest productions in the world, NEP offers a complete set of end-to-end solutions, from content capture to distribution-including a growing portfolio of transformational cloud-based, software-based and virtualized technologies.

NEP's Live Production solutions range from AV services and live audience enhancements to traditional outside broadcast and cutting-edge centralized and cloud production.

NEP's Virtual Production solutions start at the creative stage and end with exceptional execution across ICVFX, augmented reality, LED stages and more.

NEP's Media Processing solutions provide the tools and products our clients need to ingest, edit, store, search, manage and distribute their digital assets to rights holders across multiple platforms.

Headquartered in the United States, NEP has operations in 25 countries with over 4,000+ employees. Together, NEP has supported productions in over 100 countries on all seven continents and is still growing. Clients range from the leaders in sport, music, film and TV, to major corporate brands, agencies, to new content owners and creators all around the world.

Anywhere, anytime, on any platform-we help our clients make, manage, and show the world their content.