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Fluendo is a leading company on multimedia solutions based on the GStreamer framework. We develop from high-end video and audio codecs, to slick end-user applications or multimedia middle-ware powering different playback, encoding and streaming scenarios. Our software is being used in millions of devices and our clients vary from the main thin client manufacturers to the world’s leading film production labels.

Our engineering team is a multidisciplinary group of skilled and passionate engineers following good development practices, using Git everywhere, writing unit tests and end-to-end tests to feed our CI systems or doing peer-reviews among other things, but above all, we love clean, stable and performant code! We have an open and transparent structure where we empower people to work in self-organized teams.

We are looking engineers that understand the whole development process, who knows how to write clean and maintainable code, can debug memory leaks and threading problems with ease and knows how to build and package software into a final product. You should enjoy working with a big variety of frameworks and API's and have the ability the learn new ones easily. Our ideal candidate is an engineer that likes working with a big range of technologies and sees new challenges as a way to learn new things and keep growing professionally.

Fluendo offers a unique opportunity for professional growth where you will be working on several operating systems, different devices (desktops, embedded devices, mobile platforms or the cloud), native API's and frameworks over the full software stack, state-of-the-art technology and open source projects.

Responsibilities

• Work in our multimedia stack built on top of the Open Source GStreamer framework.
• Design and implement new features in our existing products such as our Multimedia SDK's.
• Maintain our video / audio codecs and other multimedia elements.
• Develop and maintain our HbbTV solution.
• Work on the build systems that builds and package our products.
• Occasionally work on consultancy projects.

Qualifications

• You have a strong Computer Science background.
• You are autonomous and you like solving problems.
• You have experience creating well-organized, architecturally-sound software from scratch.
• You have good debugging skills, specially with other people's code.
• You understand the whole development process.
• You know how to test code and design it with that in mind.
• You have a lot of experience with C (C++ also a plus).
• You know how to write cross-platform code that runs in Linux / Windows / OS X
• You have an experience in multimedia frameworks (GStreamer, FFmpeg, DirectShow)
• You know how video / audio codecs and muxers work.
• You have very good oral and written English skills to communicate with international teams
• You know build systems & IDEs like: autotools, Visual Studio, XCode, CMake

We would also like if:

• You have scripting experience with Python
• You have worked with OpenGL
• You have experience developing for Embedded systems.
• You have Android / iOS experience
• You know how Adaptive Streaming protocols work (DASH, HLS)
• You are an Open Source contributor

Perks

• Career path
• Beautiful offices in Barcelona's city center
• Great work environment
• Flexible working hours
• 2 days-off and personal budget for conferences and courses
• Internal hackathons
• Internal tech talks
• Work-from-home on Fridays
• Half-day on Fridays
• 25 vacation days
• Gym and private medical insurance
• 2 team buildings per year
• Free coffee
• Fruit on Mondays
• Relocation pack if you are moving to Barcelona
• English and Spanish lessons

Fluendo is a leading company on multimedia solutions based on the GStreamer framework. We develop from high-end video and audio codecs, to slick end-user applications or multimedia middle-ware powering different playback, encoding and streaming scenarios. Our software is being used in millions of devices and our clients vary from the main thin client manufacturers to the world’s leading film production labels.

Our engineering team is a multidisciplinary group of skilled and passionate engineers following good development practices, using Git everywhere, writing unit tests and end-to-end tests to feed our CI systems or doing peer-reviews among other things. We use Jira to manage epics, stories, issues and bugs and each team works with the methodology that fits their needs best. Our support team also helps the engineering team in the first level support trying to triage and provide as much information as possible to reproduce bugs. But ourselves and our users have a very high standard for quality and following good practices is not enough to ensure the quality we expect when releasing new versions… and this is where we need you!

We are building the QA department from the ground up and as a QA Manager you will be leading the QA strategy in the company for the different teams. We believe that QA should be a traversal tool among the company, therefore it should be a key member of the inception, development and release stage of the company's products and services.

Responsibilities

• Define the QA strategy of all the products in the company.
• Define the quarter based goals based on the metrics agreed.
• Define the responsibilities of the QA team.
• Define the process of QA in the different product teams.
• Define when and how the different tests are run.
• Keep up to date the DoD of the different products
• Along with the CTO develop a plan to reduce the technical debt and include it as part of the roadmap.
• Define the documentation standards and communicate along the product teams: requirements, bugs, user stories, features requests.

Qualifications

• You have a Computer Science background.
• You like new challenges and enjoy solving problems.
• You have strong knowledge of SQA methodologies.
• You have experience defining and implementing SQA processes around several teams.
• You know how to use software management tools like Jira and manage SQA with it.
• You have used Test Managment Sofware tools including TestRails, X-Ray, etc.
• You have experience writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases.

Perks

• Career path
• Beautiful offices in Barcelona's city center
• English and Spanish lessons
• Relocation pack if you are moving to Barcelona
• Fruit on Mondays
• Free coffee
• 2 team buildings per year
• Gym and private medical insurance
• 25 vacation days
• Half-day on Fridays
• Work-from-home on Fridays
• Internal tech talks
• Internal hackathons
• 2 days-off and personal budget for conferences and courses
• Flexible working hours
• Great work environment

Fluendo is a leading company on multimedia solutions based on the GStreamer framework. We develop from high-end video and audio codecs, to slick end-user applications or multimedia middle-ware powering different playback, encoding and streaming scenarios. Our software is being used in millions of devices and our clients vary from the main thin client manufacturers to the world’s leading film production labels.

Our engineering team is a multidisciplinary group of skilled and passionate engineers using agile methodologies and state-of-the-art technology, working on products that runs in several operating systems and devices. We have an open and transparent structure where we empower people to work in self-organized teams.

We are looking for a Technical Product Manager with a strong background in software development and multimedia technologies, that is willing to create and manage products built for developers within a very technical team. We offer a unique opportunity to join a team at an early stage of the product development where you will be able to influence and shape it from the very beginning.

Responsibilities

• Lead the product life cycle from design to development, releases and support for our products.
• Research and identify new opportunities to innovate and improve existing products.
• Establish product goals and develop roadmap.
• Define product requirements and technical specifications.
• Prioritize tasks balancing business needs versus technical constraints.
• Work with cross-functional teams towards a complete user experience.
• Support marketing and sales writing product release notes, FAQ's and help writing user guides.
• Perform product demonstrations at events.

Qualifications

• You have a strong Computer Science background.
• You have worked in the past as a software developer.
• You have at least 3 years of related experience managing technical products built for developers (frameworks, API's, productivity tools, etc...).
• You have created products from scratch for developers.
• You are familiar with multimedia pipelines, you know how video players are built, what a video decoder/encoder is and how video is streamed.
• You understand Agile methodologies.
• You are a Jira (or other project management tool) power user.
• You have experience working with engineering and quality teams to develop and launch features.
• You have good influencing and negotiation skills when dealing with all levels of the organization,
• You have proven experience translating customer requirements into technical solutions, meeting both internal and external needs.
• You have a passion to challenge existing processes and tools with an employee-first mind-set.

Perks

• Career path
• Beautiful offices in Barcelona's city center
• Great work environment
• Flexible working hours
• 2 days-off and personal budget for conferences and courses
• Internal hackathons
• Internal tech talks
• Work-from-home on Fridays
• Half-day on Fridays
• 25 vacation days
• Gym and private medical insurance
• 2 team buildings per year
• Free coffee
• Fruit on Mondays
• Relocation pack if you are moving to Barcelona
• English and Spanish lessons