Software Development Engineer

Company: Apex Systems
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Location: Greater London
Job Description:

**Please Note: This is a contract until Feb 2026**

Location: London – 5 days (Onsite)

Come build the future of entertainment with us. Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what customers are watching?

A premium streaming service that offers customers a vast collection of TV shows and movies – all with the ease of finding what they love to watch in one place. We offer customers thousands of popular movies and TV shows including exclusive licensed content to exciting live sports events. This is a fast-paced, growth business – available in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. The team works in a dynamic environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do. If this sounds exciting to you, please read on.

Our vision is to ensure customers experience the highest quality video as the service scales to content from any source, available on any device, anywhere. We develop industry-leading mechanisms that allow customers to detect video defects automatically and instantly at any point in the video pipeline, from content origin to end users’ devices. We use the expertise we develop to advance the state-of-the-art in objective measures that can detect defects and predict our customers’ perceptions of image and audio quality.

Key Job Responsibilities

Our team develops detectors consisting of deep computer vision and Machine Learning (ML) techniques, requiring team members to conduct research and methods that can identify these defects with high accuracy and low friction, optimizing to achieve both low latency and cost to operate for customers at scale.

Lead engineers are expected to have a strong understanding of core SDE computer science skills that enable them to dive deep into algorithmic performance, e.g., data structures.

About the Team

The team is based in the client’s engineering centre in London and consists of engineers with a variety of backgrounds. We work closely with other engineering teams, including those based on the US west coast and India.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems
  • Experience programming with Java, Python, and AWS

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent
  • Experience with the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
  • Experience with developing and deploying Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) at scale
  • Experience with large scale foundational models and transformer-based architecture (GenAI)

The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing high-quality applications and for designing and implementing testable and scalable code.

Responsibilities

  • Develop quality software and web applications
  • Analyze and maintain existing software applications
  • Design highly scalable, testable code
  • Discover and fix programming bugs

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field
  • Development experience with programming languages: Java, Python, AWS

Seniority Level

Mid-Senior level

Employment Type

Contract

Job Function

Information Technology

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting

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Posted: March 21st, 2025