Python Team Manager for video editing creative framework

GoPro France is a research and development center in charge of everything related to image, from the camera part to the processing chip, including smartphone software.

Our goal for next generation cameras is to keep improving the best image quality on the market and to make them smarter, capable of analyzing the current scene, its context and the user’s intent to automatically take decisions for a seamless user experience from capture to sharing videos with friends. New ways of capturing the moment emerge, such as 360 cameras.

These technologies offer yet unexplored opportunities but offer new challenges in image quality and computer vision that need to be tackled to allow a wider public adoption.

Location: Flexible Paris Issy-les-Moulineaux. This role offers the flexibility to work from home, within proximity to an office location.

The Role

GoPro delivers a set of world-class, cross platform, video editing applications on iOS, Android, MacOS and Windows that are collectively used by millions of people each month. These tools enable users to easily build incredible videos of their life events and share them with their family and friends.

The Video Engine team provides the cross-platform engines that power each of the GoPro applications and cloud. Those tools assemble, filter and create video edits from a variety of user's media. Being part of this team means that you will be at the center of the action, working with artists to create the best video editing experience on mobile and desktop platforms.

What You Will Do
As a Python Team Manager, you will lead development effort for editing features within the Python video editing creative framework:

• Manage a team of 5 developers
• Be the reference person for Python in the bug scrub and other Agile ceremonies (Sprint plannings and retrospectives)
• Define the architectural vision with the Edit team
• Prioritize features and pool requests based on the roadmap

You will also be the referent responsible for integrating backend native modules within this framework:

• Video Engine Core: This C++, cross platform engine provides real-time playback and export of complex scenes and video edits for all kind of media, including high framerate and spherical videos. This engine is currently built on top of OpenGL and Vulkan.
• Audio Engine: An advanced audio engine with multiple effects (mixing, ducking, dynamic compression, ...) that provides real-time, sample-exact playback audio on all platforms.
• Cross platform tools: We develop core cross platform tools for use across the GoPro stack. Those include a video analysis and testing infrastructure, and various tools and libraries (logging, file management, ...).

Skills We’re Excited About

Candidates for this role should have minimum 3 years of experience as a manager and at least 5 years as a developer:

• Be proficient in Python 3
• Understanding, refactoring and designing large architectures
• Able to evaluate and design efficient algorithms
• Comfortable with threading, multiprocessing, concurrency
• Familiar with Python guidelines (PEP8)

Experience in one or many of the following skills is also desirable:

• Cython
• Qt and PySide
• Cross-platform experiences (Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, macOS)
• C++, C
• Sound processing, image, video
• Experience in 3D rendering (OpenGL, Vulkan, DirectX)
• Experience with FFmpeg / video formats

Why Work With Us?

Create your own destiny. GoPro enables you and trusts you to get your own job done, because we believe that autonomy in role brings out the best in our employees.

Live your best life. We’ve adopted remote and flexible work arrangements to support work at GoPro alongside our commitment to supporting employee wellbeing, belonging and connection with one another.

Work with leading edge technologies. We encourage employees to cultivate and use the latest and greatest technology, to provide the best solutions to serve our customers. We celebrate creative solutions that bring innovation to GoPro technology.

GoPro Highlights

• Get your very own GoPro camera + gear
• Generous time off policy
• Excellent healthcare insurance coverage (Health-premium paid for 70% by GoPro)
• Competitive salary and discretionary performance-related bonus
• Subsidized lunch and snacks galore
• Gym fee compensation
• Transit benefit – 50% of the applicable public transportation pass
• Excellent healthcare insurance coverage (Health-premium paid for 70% by GoPro)
• Flexible work arrangements
• Discounted employee stock purchase plan.
• Professional + personal development opportunities, i.e. LinkedIn Learning, technology trainings, certifications, Peer-to-Peer learning, conferences and more.
• Opportunities to get involved in the causes that you care about (annual camera donation + volunteer events)

We strive for the day that no group can be described as underrepresented at GoPro – whether as part of our brand or in our workforce. We are committed to providing a more inclusive, representative, equal, just and happy world. GoPro is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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