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Native App Developer - MacOS Engineer - Accessibility Quarterly rolling contract for up to 2 years Initially fully remote Client: Global consumer electronics Are you passionate about building apps that everyone can use, regardless of ability? Would you enjoy working in a team whose role is to support, advise and shape how apps are built, helping to make more applications accessible to more people? If so, then this role could be the perfect opportunity for you. This is a varied role, where you'll be working with global teams. You will be required to audit existing solutions, work with teams throughout the entire lifecycle of a project on new features and solutions, liaise and co-ordinate with various functions, representing the team positively and effectively at all times. You'll need to be technically astute to consult and support with diverse teams and to help them ensure the best outputs, so we are looking for: Excellent programming skills - particularly Objective-C and/or Swift Expert knowledge of AppKit (and UIKit) An understanding of accessibility features across Apple MacOS products Knowledge of testing using assistive technologies such as VoiceOver and Switch control (if no commercial experience using these tools, you will need demonstrate your willingness to learn and provide examples of this) Familiarity with project management methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall Excellent communication skills If this role sounds like a good fit for you and you'd like to find out more about the company, the team and the work, then please send us a copy of your latest CV and we'll be in touch to discuss further.

Native App Developer - MacOS Engineer - Accessibility Quarterly rolling contract for up to 2 years Initially fully remote Client: Global consumer electronics Are you passionate about building apps that everyone can use, regardless of ability? Would you enjoy working in a team whose role is to support, advise and shape how apps are built, helping to make more applications accessible to more people? If so, then this role could be the perfect opportunity for you. This is a varied role, where you'll be working with global teams. You will be required to audit existing solutions, work with teams throughout the entire lifecycle of a project on new features and solutions, liaise and co-ordinate with various functions, representing the team positively and effectively at all times. You'll need to be technically astute to consult and support with diverse teams and to help them ensure the best outputs, so we are looking for: Excellent programming skills - particularly Objective-C and/or Swift Expert knowledge of AppKit (and UIKit) An understanding of accessibility features across Apple MacOS products Knowledge of testing using assistive technologies such as VoiceOver and Switch control (if no commercial experience using these tools, you will need demonstrate your willingness to learn and provide examples of this) Familiarity with project management methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall Excellent communication skills If this role sounds like a good fit for you and you'd like to find out more about the company, the team and the work, then please send us a copy of your latest CV and we'll be in touch to discuss further.

Senior iOS Developer - 6 Month Contract £670 per day (inside IR35) I'm working with Europe's biggest entertainment brand to find an experienced iOS engineer. Think top-quality shows, breaking news innovative tech, must-have products. Experience here means the freedom and support you need to make an impact - pushing boundaries, creating solutions, hitting targets. As part of their close-knit team, you'll gain excellent experience working within a very well renowned brand. Working within the Core Client Team you will be responsible for building the playback-related functionality in their OTT products. The team's work is to ensure that common functionality is built in a reliable, scalable and efficient way. The team owns the internally open source SDK which colleagues across the company use to achieve effortless playback on Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Samsung TV, LG TV, PlayStation, Xbox and Roku. The SDK abstracts the complexity of achieving playback on these devices and provides a single, simple to use API. We are now looking for a talented iOS Dev to join us in finding new innovative ways to build features and improve upon our video players. You will: Build new features and maintain existing solutions within the SDK. Contribute to planning and architecture of new features and see them through to release. Daily code reviews on new submissions raised to the SDK, both from colleagues within the team and externally. Support client teams with integration of the SDK and assist in diagnosing issues. You'll have: A strong understanding of software design and development principles. An expert-level understanding of Objective-C and Swift. Ability to communicate effectively and explain complex problems in a simple way. Enjoy collaborating with others, both inside and outside the team. Ability to provide constructive and objective feedback. Nice to have: An understanding of OTT Streaming Player technology.

Broadcast Client Services Supervisor- Remote - UK Work with one of the world's leading entertainment brands, who have achieved a long-standing history of household recognition… In this 6+ month remote working contract role you will oversee and support the implementation of new broadcast content distribution deals whilst managing their corresponding processes. Experience in TV Distribution/Post Production/Broadcast Media required, including knowledge of File based and High Definition technology, New Media and electronic file delivery. Acting as the interface of daily operations, you will be the first line of escalation throughout the business, ensuring all operational data, status and utilisation reporting is maintained and distributed accordingly. Depending on COVID/lockdown restrictions, travel requirement to a West London office may be expected. UK resident & right to work required. Your Experience: Experience in TV Distribution/Post Production/Broadcast Media required Knowledge of File based and High Definition technology, New Media and electronic file delivery Excellent administrative and project management skills essential Familiarity with databases and structured data High level of computer literacy essential Experience of managing people an advantage Analytical with strong interpersonal skills for liaison across all levels of the business Superb communication skills, written and oral Proactive, diligent and evidenced ability to influence Good understanding of MS Office products Advanced computer literacy and basic broadcast engineering knowledge Keen interest in emerging technology, broadcast TV and online TV Strong commercial, technical and consumer understanding of digital media Role Responsibilities: Take ownership of general queries & coordinate queries to other departments accordingly Oversee all deal requests from content sales and ensure the Content Distribution and Content Protection team are notified, requirements documented, and timelines agreed with senior staff Understand/recognise workflow for the territories supported under role: EMEA Content Sales Clusters Responsible for initiating the design for management presentations Contribute to the team, and collaborate on specific projects and opportunities to improve workflows Provide support to the Team Manager, including coaching the team, approving orders and working with senior stakeholders as required Deputise in the absence of the Manager Drive to continually develop knowledge of the product slate, media types and the territories, including customers & market dynamics Send me your CV ASAP to beat the competition!

Senior iOS Developer - 6 Month Contract £670 per day (inside IR35) I'm working with Europe's biggest entertainment brand. Think top-quality shows. Breaking news. Innovative tech. Must-have products. Experience here mean the freedom and support you need to make an impact - pushing boundaries, creating solutions, hitting targets. And as part of their close-knit team, you'll gain excellent experience working within such a well renowned brand. Working within the Core Client Team you will be responsible for building the playback-related functionality in their OTT products. The team's work is to ensure that common functionality is built in a reliable, scalable and efficient way. The team owns the internally open source SDK which colleagues across the company use to achieve effortless playback on Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Samsung TV, LG TV, PlayStation, Xbox and Roku. The SDK abstracts the complexity of achieving playback on these devices and provides a single, simple to use API. We are now looking for a talented iOS Dev to join us in finding new innovative ways to build features and improve upon our video players. You will: Build new features and maintain existing solutions within the SDK. Contribute to planning and architecture of new features and see them through to release. Daily code reviews on new submissions raised to the SDK, both from colleagues within the team and externally. Support client teams with integration of the SDK and assist in diagnosing issues. You'll have: A strong understanding of software design and development principles. An expert-level understanding of Objective-C and Swift. Ability to communicate effectively and explain complex problems in a simple way. Enjoy collaborating with others, both inside and outside the team. Ability to provide constructive and objective feedback. Nice to have: An understanding of OTT Streaming Player technology.

Senior Android Developer - Media/Broadcast 6-month contract £670 per day (inside IR35) I'm working with Europe's biggest entertainment brand. Think top-quality shows. Breaking news. Innovative tech. Must-have products. Experience here mean the freedom and support you need to make an impact - pushing boundaries, creating solutions, hitting targets. And as part of their close-knit team, you'll gain excellent experience working within such a well renowned brand. Working within the Core Client Team you will be responsible for building the playback-related functionality in their OTT products. The team's work is to ensure that common functionality is built in a reliable, scalable and efficient way. The team owns the internally open-source SDK which colleagues across the company use to achieve effortless playback on Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Samsung TV, LG TV, PlayStation, Xbox and Roku. The SDK abstracts the complexity of achieving playback on these devices and provides a single, simple to use API. We are now looking for a talented Android Dev to join us in finding new innovative ways to build features and improve upon our video players. You will: Build new features and maintain existing solutions within the SDK. Contribute to planning and architecture of new features and see them through to release. Daily code reviews on new submissions raised to the SDK, both from colleagues within the team and externally. Support client teams with integration of the SDK and assist in diagnosing issues. You'll have: A strong understanding of software design and development principles. An expert-level understanding of Java. Kotlin experience is ideal. Ability to communicate effectively and explain complex problems in a simple way. Enjoy collaborating with others, both inside and outside the team. Ability to provide constructive and objective feedback. Nice to have: An understanding of OTT Streaming Player technology.

Scala Developer - 6 months Inside IR35 - Up to £670 per day Our Broadcast and Media client (Europe's leading entertainment brand) is looking for a talented Scala Developer to join the team that develops and supports their technologies, globally. No matter the device, the time, or the place, this team makes sure that engaging large, diverse audiences with premium entertainment is possible. The vision is to deliver the world's best entertainment service. Within this team, the role will be focussed on powering and maintaining their 'continue watching/watchlist' API's etc. You will also power other personalised API's which all have a very high volume of traffic. This role will be fully remote for now, however once it is safe to go back into the office, you will be expected to work onsite. (Osterley West London) Technical Requirements: Pure Scala - 3 to 5 years' experience TDD / BDD - Essential Play / AKKA - Desirable Functional Scala Developers NOT Big Data Scala Developers Docker or Kubernetes (k8s) - Understanding and experience desirable Experience with highly scalable systems Experience with high TPS (Transactions per second) API's General Tech Stack You can expect to work with loads of Scala, SBT, ScalaTest, Akka-http, Kafka, Cassandra, Git, Kubernetes, Gradle, Bash, Prometheus, WireMock, Kibana, Grafana, Gatling, Jenkins, Ansible, Kotlin and Java. Industry / Background: High volume environment / high traffic production type clients (eCommerce, Betting backgrounds) Customer facing TV / Media industry experience is only desirable There will be 1 interview for this role, this will be a technical interview for approx. 1 hour 30 minutes. If this looks to be a role that's right for you, please get in touch today with your CV and contact details!

Scala Developer - 6 months Inside IR35 - Up to £670 per day Our Broadcast and Media client (Europe's leading entertainment brand) is looking for a talented Scala Developer to join the team that develops and supports their technologies, globally. No matter the device, the time, or the place, this team makes sure that engaging large, diverse audiences with premium entertainment is possible. The vision is to deliver the world's best entertainment service. Within this team, the role will be focussed on powering and maintaining their 'continue watching/watchlist' API's etc. You will also power other personalised API's which all have a very high volume of traffic. This role will be fully remote for now, however once it is safe to go back into the office, you will be expected to work onsite. (Osterley West London) Technical Requirements: Pure Scala - 3 to 5 years' experience TDD / BDD - Essential Play / AKKA - Desirable Functional Scala Developers NOT Big Data Scala Developers Docker or Kubernetes (k8s) - Understanding and experience desirable Experience with highly scalable systems Experience with high TPS (Transactions per second) API's General Tech Stack You can expect to work with loads of Scala, SBT, ScalaTest, Akka-http, Kafka, Cassandra, Git, Kubernetes, Gradle, Bash, Prometheus, WireMock, Kibana, Grafana, Gatling, Jenkins, Ansible, Kotlin and Java. Industry / Background: High volume environment / high traffic production type clients (eCommerce, Betting backgrounds) Customer facing TV / Media industry experience is only desirable There will be 1 interview for this role, this will be a technical interview for approx. 1 hour 30 minutes. If this looks to be a role that's right for you, please get in touch today with your CV and contact details!

Automotive Technical Product Manager 3-4 Days per week - Fully remote flexible working Outside IR35 - Up to £450 per day The context My client is a non-profit organisation, backed by radio broadcasters around the world. Their work helps keep radio strong in connected devices, like computers, mobiles, and smart speakers but our main aim is to establish partnerships with car manufacturers in the fast-growing connected car sector to keep radio strong in future dashboards. They are taking a leading role in working with car companies and equipment manufacturers, to ensure that next-generation car radios are smart, central to the dashboard, safe to use - and respectful of broadcaster's content and brands. The role The Automotive Product Manager (APM) will initially be a part-time contract role and report to the Director of Automotive Partnerships. The APM will be responsible for managing and developing our key automotive products, in particular: The Worldwide API which provides official broadcaster metadata (eg station logos, streaming URLs, on-demand content, phonetics to car manufacturers to help create a rich radio experience. Reference Hybrid Radio application designed for the Android Automotive Operating System. Headless Android Automotive apps and app integrations with Android Auto and Apple Carplay The APM's role will include… Owning all car-related products. Building a roadmap for future development of our automotive products and services with the team and international broadcasters. Providing expert technical support, advice and guidance on how to integrate our products and services. Establishing working relationships with partners and 3rd party suppliers. Working with C-suite staff. Work with automotive app store providers to help on-board mobile apps. Involvement in tactical technical projects aimed at improving the in-car radio experience. For example, in areas like interface prototyping, metadata acquisition/enhancement, and addition of new features like voice control, podcasts, and personalisation Liaising with other radio/automotive-related organisations. The right candidate; You have great product stewardship capabilities and are comfortable working directly with clients and prospects to develop existing or new partnerships You have proven technical expertise in areas such as automotive infotainment, app development (particularly in Android), API development or Radio You have a client-first mentality and a proactive, collaborative approach to managing problems, questions and requests from clients You have a good understanding of how media services in connected car dashboards are changing technically You have a track record of being involved with technological innovation in the automotive and/or audio sectors You're naturally collaborative, with a history of working effectively within a team and across diverse groups of people You are confident enough to lead technical discussions with broadcasters, car manufacturers and other stakeholders You have a 'start-up mentality' - you're used to rolling up your sleeves and getting stuff done, even if you have to learn new skills to do it We welcome applicants from EU and international countries. You embrace an international outlook, and you may be proficient in several languages This is an important role, in an ambitious and fast-growing organisation. We have a clear aim to help keep radio strong in future car dashboards and our automotive partners are expanding.

Senior .Net Developer - eCommerce - Watford £65k+ per annum Do you care deeply about your work? Do you have an interest in retail and eCommerce? Have you always wanted to build something big, from the ground up, and to really put your mark on something? Yes? Then, this could be for you! We have built our own eCommerce platform from the ground up so that we have full control over all the features we need in order to deliver the very best customer experience possible. Our Founder lives and breathes eCommerce and is incredibly passionate about providing the very best service possible for his customers. The rest of us bring years of experience from a myriad of big retailers including Mothercare, JoJo Maman Bébé, ASOS, Marks & Spencer and Tesco. We ultimately believe that shopping for little ones should be as enjoyable as shopping for yourself. About the role You will be heavily involved in the customer-facing site; prototyping, design, scoping, and planning of features. Customer is ​king​ here, and you'll be key to delivering the very best we can to them. You can expect this role to be a well-rounded and all-immersive engineering opportunity where collaboration really is at the key of everything you'll be working on. You will work closely with our CTO, and our lead software engineers, to shape the database and view models and ensure that the front and back-end implementations are executed harmoniously. A bit about the tech! Everything is built on .NET and hosted in Azure. The website front-end is built with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript (jQuery and some bootstrap too for internal apps) The server-side framework is an NET MVC5 application running on ASP 4.7. We use Raven, Azure Table storage, Azure blob storage, and SQL Azure. Our apps communicate via queues and subscriptions. We use Visual Studio for development, but the way we're set up plays nicely with your editor of choice. We test using NUnit and our own little framework called MicroSpec. We think Domain-driven Design is awesome and it inspires and informs all architectural and code design decisions. We use Google Apps for everything that concerns day-to-day working. Oh, and we use Zeplin for collaboration between the developers and the designer. Did we mention Trello? We love Trello. And we ​loooove ​Slack. All our code lives in Git. We build and deploy using AppVeyor. Everything runs in Azure with App Insights providing extra monitoring. We do not use Active Directory and probably never will.

Technical Systems Business Analyst - Broadcast Media - UK Remote A globally iconic media creator & distributor are seeking an experienced Technical Systems Analyst to work remotely alongside their expert team of Business Analysts and Project Managers for a 6-month contract period. In this business-critical role, you will act as the authorising body during multiple on-going system integration projects, taking complete ownership of BAU project queries. You will need strong documentation skills and to possess extensive experience with bespoke change management procedures. With a requirement to start ASAP (up to 1 month max), this contract position is paying up to £500p/d (outside of IR35) with a working week of Mon-Fri and will last 6 months. Depending on COVID/lockdown restrictions, travel requirement to their West London office could be expected. UK resident & right to work required. Responsibilities: Capture, creation & documenting of technical requirements/specs to be used by dev teams Make confident recommendations to the business and teams in accordance with the project(s) requirement(s) Easily articulate technical information/tasks to non-technical personnel Provide hands on support with technical support activities where appropriate Write clear and concise requirements and acceptance criteria by conducting interviews, workflow analysis, process analysis, and observation sessions using core analyst capabilities of elicitation, visualization, and facilitation Arrange client reviews of software under development, ensuring client satisfaction Apply change management processes to support the technical changes Communicate progress status for technology or business stakeholders Build and maintain productive relationships with partners from other segments within the Company Required experience and skills: Relevant experience in a similar role, especially in the media industry (broadcast/media servicing) Solid understanding of technology, best practice and concepts used to connect and support systems e.g., XSD, XML Good knowledge of facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency Evidenced ability to influence and negotiate Experience or solid appreciation of how to successfully work as an analyst in a distributed, cross-functional technical project team Minimum 3 years' experience performing business/systems analysis covering IT domains Minimum 2 years' experience of Agile Methodologies (Scrum or Kanban) Experienced at working with third party suppliers and across time zones and cultures Apply today to secure an interview ASAP…

Senior Front End Developer - React 6 Month Contract (extendable) £600-670 per day inside IR35 Job Brief: We are looking for a Senior Front End Developer who would like to help develop a large scale CMS project for our internationally renowned media broadcast client. Ideally, the successfuol candidate will be someone who wants to broaden their skillset in an International multi-lingual CMS application. Key Responsibilities: Deliver excellent quality software using Agile techniques Assist in developing application deployment, monitoring and automated control artifacts Strive for continuous improvement - be able to improve existing practices and techniques from within the team with enthusiasm Assist in the development of the CMS application using React Unit, Functional and Performance test code for robustness including edge cases, usability and general reliability. Actively help the team improve our automated test systems Essential Skills: Extensive experience creating quality Front End React based applications Having worked on live high-volume websites Proficiency in at least one Continuous Integration tool (ideally Jenkins) Experience in automated testing frameworks Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies Strong understanding of React, HTML, CSS, JS and Responsive Design Extensive experience with Agile Principles Beneficial Skills: Exposure to Content Management and Content Distribution Networks Good experience with REST APIs Knowledge of Unix/Linux and scripting languages (Bash, etc.)