Senior Software Engineer

Ready to take the next step in your software engineering career?

We're looking for talented and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our innovative R&D team in Dalgety Bay, Fife. If you're passionate about developing cutting-edge solutions and want to play a key role in shaping the future of our products, we'd love to hear from you.

VITEC's UK division is based in Dalgety Bay, Scotland, a leading IPTV and digital signage provider worldwide. Our values and solutions have formed the foundation of a reputation which has allowed us to build a global list of recognised customers.

Already an engineering centre, Dalgety Bay has expanded to be one of two core shipping hubs for VITEC worldwide. Our reach includes a presence on every continent, providing multilingual sales and support around the world via a supportive and highly valued network of customers, channel partners and consultants.

Join our global R&D team and play a key role in designing, developing and enhancing high-performance Linux server software solutions. You'll work on platform systems, networking technologies and scalable products, taking ownership of complex projects from concept to delivery. As a senior engineer, you'll help drive technical excellence, influence engineering decisions, mentor colleagues, and collaborate across teams to deliver innovative solutions that meet customer and business needs.

Software Development

• Design and implement software in C & C++
• Develop and maintain software running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and Rocky Linux platforms
• Investigate and fix performance, stability, and reliability issues, using appropriate Linux tools and debugging techniques to identify and resolve root causes
• Design and implement services that support fault tolerance, failover, service recovery, and system resilience

Systems & Networking

• Develop and maintain networking components, protocols, and communication stacks.
• Implement and optimise support for IP‑based networking, multicast/unicast streaming, and real‑time data transfer.
• Troubleshoot network performance issues and ensure robust, secure communication between devices.
• Work with transport streams, packetization, and low‑latency data paths.

Video Technologies

• Work with streaming formats such as MPEG‑TS, HLS, or similar delivery protocols.
• Collaborate with multimedia teams to integrate codecs, transcoders, and streaming modules.

Agile Development

• Participate actively in Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand‑ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with product owners and architects to refine requirements and break down user stories.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of Agile processes, team velocity, and delivery quality.
• Promote transparency, iterative development, and shared ownership across the engineering team.

Software Engineering Excellence

• Write clean, maintainable, well‑tested code across C & C++ components.
• Lead code reviews, ensuring high standards for quality, performance, and safety.
• Break down complex technical challenges into clear, actionable tasks.
• Contribute to continuous integration, automated testing, and build system improvements.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Mentor junior engineers and guide best practices in software development.
• Collaborate with hardware, QA, product, and systems engineering teams.
• Communicate technical decisions clearly and influence architectural direction.
• Drive continuous improvement in tools, processes, and engineering culture.

About You:

We're looking for a passionate and talented Senior Software Engineer with strong commercial experience in C and C++ development for Linux environments. The ideal candidate will thrive in a collaborative, Agile setting and have hands‑on experience with Red Hat, CentOS or Rocky Linux, Git Lab and CI/CD pipelines, and PostgreSQL databases. You'll bring a solid understanding of networking technologies and protocols, including TCP/IP, UDP, IPv4/IPv6, VLANs and multicast, and ideally have experience with high‑availability solutions such as Pacemaker and Corosync, RPM software packaging, and video technologies including codecs and containers.

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