Software Engineer
StarLeaf, United Kingdom
Job Description
You will like this role if you want to be a part of our journey as we transition ourselves exclusively to a SaaS business and continue on the route towards an exit.
Embrace the chaos! Obviously, the past year has increased the need for video conferencing and messaging more than ever. The last year has been full of challenges for our engineers, and they have had plenty of problems to solve. Not always easy, but rewarding, and solving problems is why you are an engineer, right?
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StarLeaf’s engineering teams are pretty small given the breadth of our product offering approximately 30 engineers in our Watford office and a similar number in our Cambridge office. These teams deliver a custom cloud and a range of clients with messaging, meetings, video, audio, interoperability, APIs and more.
Some examples of past, current and ongoing projects the team you would join have worked on include:
- Our recent 300-party meetings project. Here we had to break the linear scaling in CPU usage to sub-linear scaling to break the 100-users per party limit.
- Current projects involve creating new APIs for delivering services between components, other parts of the company, or the public.
- We are continually improving the platform, for example, optimising packet forwarding between docker containers on a Linux host to serve high rates of media traffic without packet loss.
The tech
We believe that good engineers can learn new skills and technologies, so the top thing we look for is a combination of adaptability and the ability to learn.
Beyond that, our technology stack is a combination of the programming languages of C++, Python and C# (and some Javascript for our few frontend webpages), the Linux operating system (with both Docker containers and VMware virtualization), SaltStack configuration management, and more.
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