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 delivers as a framework the cross-platform engine 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 Technical Manager, you will:

• Manage a growing team of 3 developers
• Be the reference person for C++ in the bug scrub and other Agile ceremonies (Sprint planning and retrospectives)
• Define the architectural vision with the Edit team
• Prioritize features and pool requests based on the roadmap

With your team you will contribute to the following topics:

• Cross platform APIs: We develop cross platform (mobile and desktop) APIs for use across the GoPro stack. Those include media analysis, testing infrastructure and various tools and libraries (logging, file management, media playback, ...).
• Video editing features: We build advanced features on top of our cross platform engine that provides real-time playback and export of complex scenes and video edits for all kind of media (high frame-rate, spherical, etc ..)
• Audio Engine: An advanced audio engine with multiple effects (mixing, ducking, dynamic compression, ...) that provides real-time, sample-exact playback audio on all platforms.
• Development tools: We are engaged in improving the quality of our tests coverage and in building development tools that enhanced the team productivity.

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:

• Cross-platform development: 1 mobile platform (Android or iOS) and 2 desktop platforms (macOS , Linux, Windows)
• C++
• Understanding, refactoring and designing large architectures
• Interfacing C++/C with native language of mobile platforms
• Build systems (at least CMake)

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

• Kotlin or Swift for mobile development
• Python
• Experience in 3D rendering (DirectX, Vulkan, Metal, OpenGL)
• Experience with FFmpeg / video formats
• Media processing: sound, image, video
  
  

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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