INDG, a fine mixture of 3D artistry and meaningful engineering, is looking for a LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER to join us in Amsterdam. This is one of the most senior development position we have. Expats welcome!
INDG
Historically,
INDG has been producing 3D for large companies like Adidas, Yamaha,
Philips, Electrolux and such. This results in still images and videos (like this), but also in all sorts of interactive applications. Check this out:
— Landing page with lots of 3D
— Yamaha apps
— Augmented reality for Honda
There are others—VR, interactive installations and configurators (like this),
but you get the idea. Some of them are one-offs, like you would expect
from a 3D digital agency. Others, however, are not and those are the
ones that are interesting.
The landing page above, for
example, has been produced using our own engine called (for now) PEX —
short for Product EXperience. It’s stable, it’s capable of graceful
degradation for slow connections and mobile devices alike, it’s
developed in sprints, documented, has release control and full-stack
testing.
Engineering within INDG
So
you can see that we take engineering very seriously. The reason for
that is a bit philosophical. Our motto is to make ‘every product
playable’, where ‘every’ is stressed. So, ideally, we’d like to produce
rich sites for, say, the whole portfolio of Philips—which is thousands
of items.
One can’t do that within the paradigm of a
digital agency, because for agencies each project is a one-off and costs
a lot. A lot times thousands of products is A LOT. And so we decided to
move into two domains: self-service design (think Readymag-like things)
and auto-generated design which is a really, really cool concept but
really, really sophisticated to implement.
However, a lot
of things we already did. For example, we scripted and streamlined the
process of 3D modelling. We can model a lot of stuff in short time and
you can kinda see that there isn’t that great a leap from this to
auto-generating videos for example.
PITC (‘The secret product’)
We
have a number of ‘auto-generated design’ projects. The one we invite a
Lead Software Engineer to work on, generates photography. I can’t go
into details since it hasn’t been launched, but you will get a demo if
you apply. It also aroused great interest from several brands that you
know very, very well.
This product is to be launched this
summer and if successful, the Lead Software Engineer will be able to
claim to have produced an extremely impactful project, and I’m not
writing it lightly.
Opportunities
This
is the top position we have—a senior position and a leadership
position. INDG is currently a very fluent organization, where you can
express your ideas to everyone and they will be heard. Talent is also
rare, so basically within reasonable limits it is you who decides what
you want to become. So if you’re a great engineer interested in visual
arts, but feel like you don’t fit in exactly this role, write
nevertheless.
You will also see that the
‘responsibilities’ are on different levels. True; product team has more
to do than it has members. But when, in some months, it specializes,
people with most experience are likely to get the most senior positions,
so again—if it’s opportunity you’re after, this is a good place to be.
