Senior Web Developer in Cambridge

Every day, Imagine Communications is delivering billions of media moments all over the world — anywhere, anytime and on any device. Imagine Communications delivers innovative, end-to-end media software and networking solutions to over 3,000 customers in more than 185 countries, including the top broadcast facilities and the most technologically advanced sports and live-event venues.

Imagine Communications is seeking a Software Engineer with web development expertise to join our engineering team in Toronto, Canada or Cambridge, UK (both locations are remote friendly). This role focuses on web-based user interfaces for real-time broadcast and media monitoring systems. The successful candidate will design, implement, optimize and maintain user interfaces for configuration, monitoring and management of multiviewer systems in collaboration with the existing cross‑functional product development teams.

• Implement responsive, accessible UIs using raw HTML, CSS, JavaScript/jQuery, and TypeScript with Stencil (web components).
• Develop reusable UI components and patterns for status dashboards, alarm views, signal tiles, layouts, and device configuration screens.
• Work with CGI endpoints written in Perl or Python; extend or bridge them into a cohesive interface layer.
• Design and execute queries against PostgreSQL; collaborate on schema design and migrations for new UI features.
• Partner with product management and development engineers to translate monitoring/management workflows into intuitive UIs.
• Profile and troubleshoot web UI to identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies.
• Collaborate with QA, DevOps, and product teams to ensure robust feature delivery.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to continuous improvement of code quality and architecture.
• Support ongoing code maintenance, refactoring, and technical debt reduction.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Core Web: Strong hands‑on with semantic HTML, modern JavaScript (ES6+), CSS fundamentals, and jQuery for legacy/CGI‑driven views.
• TypeScript & Components: Solid experience with TypeScript; component‑based development using Stencil (or similar web component frameworks).
• Back‑End Web: Proficiency with Node.js and ExpressJS for building RESTful/streaming endpoints; understanding of middleware, routing, and error handling.
• CGI & Scripting: Comfortable reading/writing Perl or Python CGI scripts, form handlers, and templating in server‑rendered flows.
• Web Server Ops: Practical experience configuring Nginx (reverse proxy, caching, compression, HTTP/2/3, TLS, upstreams).
• Databases: Working knowledge of PostgreSQL (schemas, indexing, joins, migrations, performance basics).
• Containers: Experience building and running services in Docker, composing multi‑container environments.
• Testing & Tooling: Familiarity with Playwright or similar; linting, formatting, and CI (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
• Security & Performance: Understanding of CSP, CORS, CSRF, XSS mitigation; profiling and performance optimization for production UIs.
• Collaboration: Version control with Git, code reviews, and clear technical communication.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively in Agile teams.
• Real‑time/Streaming UI: SSE/WebSockets experience; visualization of telemetry or alarms.
• Streaming media video playback in the browser.
• Docker Compose, container networking, basic Linux admin on appliance‑like environments.
• Experience implementing or consuming REST APIs.
• UX: Experience with operator consoles, tiled layouts, keyboard navigation and multi‑monitor workflows.
• Experience in broadcast or media processing environments.

At Imagine Communications, we don’t just accept difference — we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our customers, our employees, our products, and our communities. We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect. Imagine Communications is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.