Senior Software Engineer (Computer Vision, C++)

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 21 March 2026
LOCATION
London
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Technology
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SKILLS

C++ Computer Vision 3D geometry SLAM Cloud-based micro-service GPU programming

FULL DESCRIPTION

[Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with expertise in Computer Vision and C++ to develop and maintain computer vision products. The role involves owning the product lifecycle, optimizing applications, collaborating with teams, and ensuring product reliability in a cloud-based micro-service environment. The ideal candidate will have experience with C++ systems, computer vision, and strong communication skills.

What You’ll Do

  • Own Computer Vision Products End-to-End: You will own computer vision products throughout their entire lifecycle - from research and production-grade development to deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement.
  • Maintain Reliability of Our Products: Sports happen in real time, and you will ensure our products deliver continuously. You will diagnose and resolve issues related to cloud-based micro-service systems.
  • Optimise & Debug Real-Time CV Applications: You will find and optimise bottlenecks inside C++ apps both on CPU and GPU.
  • Collaborate Across Teams: Work with our Machine Learning team, Product Managers, and Operations to ensure the project delivers within deadlines.
  • Be a Part of Our Culture: Be proactive, ask for help and clarifications when needed. Lend a hand to your teammates, mentors those you can teach, make [Employer hidden] a better place.

What You’ll Bring

  • Proven Experience Building and Shipping C++ systems: You have owned, shipped, and maintained a computer vision system in the past, ideally in a cloud-based micro-service environment.
  • Proficiency in Computer Vision: 3D geometry for computer vision, SLAM, numerical optimisations, modern ML techniques. You must be comfortable integrating open-source code to tackle problems.
  • Strong Communication Skills: You can explain technical concepts easily to our product managers, and are able to link those to product features and its delivery phases.
  • Project Ownership: You don’t need to be told what to do. You take responsibility in your work in all stages, from building client confidence with proof-of-concepts, to maintaining reliability when it’s deployed.

Nice to Haves

  • Experience in solving non-linear least square problems
  • Experience in UI development e.g. ImGui
  • Understanding of multithreading techniques
  • Experience with GPU programming e.g. CUDA
  • Experience with a messaging framework, e.g. NATS, RabbitMQ
  • Experience working in and configuring cloud environments (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Experience working with software containers (Docker, Podman) and container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes or Docker Swarm

What We Offer

  • High-impact projects that will appear on live television and be seen by thousands
  • If you are looking for a company where you will be challenged, valued and respected, with great compensation in a team that doesn’t play politics then this is the role for you
  • Ownership and autonomy of your work
  • The opportunity to work in sport at an elite level
  • Support through learning and development tailored to your role
  • We have supported a number of promotions as well as internal changes to help our top talent grow and stay engaged in their careers
  • Bonus scheme
  • Health and wellbeing stipend
  • Competitive salary
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