(Contract) Senior C++ Developer

Type: Contract, per-project.
Location: Remote - within LATAM time zones (GMT-3 to GMT-5)
Availability: Contractor (40 hours per week)

What We Are Looking ForWe’re looking for a Senior C++ Engineer with strong experience building high-performance streaming video players across Smart TVs, Set Top Boxes, and Consoles. You should be fluent in C/C++, GStreamer, modern streaming protocols (HLS, DASH, CMAF), and DRM schemes like Widevine or PlayReady. Experience with native TV platforms (Roku, FireTV, tvOS) and multimedia frameworks is essential. You must be comfortable owning features end-to-end, writing clean and testable code, and working in Agile teams. Strong understanding of video codecs, ABR, and playback optimization is key.

YOUR PROFILE
Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain C++ based Streaming Video Players to run on Smart TV, Set Top Box, or Gaming Console platforms.
• Build video player plugins using GStreamer
• Research and evaluate potential technical solutions
• Make design decisions on video player architecture
• Enable Microsoft PlayReady, Google Widevine DRM protection for video player plugins
• Optimize video playback performance, time-to-first-frame (TTFF)
• Maintain technical documentation
• Work and collaborate in teams with engineers, testers, product managers, etc.
• Work in an Agile, iterative development process
• Committing to deliver timely results

Qualifications:

• 7 years of experience in C/C++ programming
• Experience in low level native TV platform application development (NDK) such as
• Roku/FireTV/tvOS/WebTV
• Experience with projects that target high refresh rate performance
• Familiarity with open-source multimedia projects like \mpeg, Gstreamer, and WebRTC
• Experience building a streaming video player (in C++ preferred)
• Strong experience in video streaming protocols such as HLS, Low-Latency HLS, MPEG DASH, CMAF, RTP, RTMP, Timed Metadata (ID3)
• Familiarity with technologies for developing on Smart TVs, Set Top Boxes, and Gaming
• Consoles such as Samsung Tizen, Vizio, Hisense, XBOX, PlayStation or others
• Knowledge of Multilingual Text Tracks for Closed Captioning and Subtitle Formats such as WebVTT
• Knowledge of Multilingual Audio and Audio Description Tracks
• Strong experience with DRM protection schemes such as MPEG Common Encryption,
• FairPlay, Widevine, PlayReady.
• Basic understanding of VOD and linear video workflows using ingest, transmuxing, encoding,
• SSAI, packaging, and playout.
• Basic understanding of streaming media in a multi-CDN environment.
• Strong experience with adaptive bit rate (ABR) ladder algorithms.
• REST API usage and development.
• Basic understanding of modern video codecs like HEVC, H.265K, H.264, VP8, VP9, AV1
• Knowledge of Dolby Vision and HDR
• Strong experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Understand how to write clean and testable code
• Able to work on a large scope project from start to finish
• Be capable of being an owner of a specific component or feature
• Familiar with Jira, Confluence tools and communicate tasking estimation and progress regularly to a project manager, Scrum Master

(*) SOUTHWORKS only hires individuals from countries that are not blocked or sanctioned by the United States, including those identified on the United States Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC).