Video Engineer at Boston Globe Media (Boston, MA)

The Video Engineer develops media and business solutions by designing, developing and supporting video solutions for the Boston Globe’s newsroom, the Supply Chain Operations team and the Digital Product team. Video engineers collaborate with the video producers, editors of the newsroom, front end engineers, portal engineers and software engineers.

Responsibilities include:
• Possesses an excellent understanding of software engineering best practices and an intense drive to learn how to improve our core products and services.
• Reviews and influences ongoing design, architecture, standards and methods for the Boston Globe, boston.com and bostonglobe.com.
• Develops innovative media and business solutions through process engineering, collaborating with our customers to recommend changes in policies and procedures when appropriate, and delivering high quality software through a standardized software development life cycle.
• Committed to continually mentoring others and learning through research of development tools and languages, activey participating in code reviews and solution demonstrations, investigating new design patterns, participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, and participating in professional organizations.
• Uses Jira to document progress, code migrations and status on work assignments and communicates these updates during daily standups.
• On call support for production critical applications
• Provides complete technical documentation, code comments, and readable code that is properly stored in a version control system.