Software Engineer C++

Position: Software Engineer (C++)

Office/Station: Product

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Write scalable, robust, testable, efficient and easily maintainable code
• Translate requirements into a stable, working and high-performance software
• Work with peers in designing and developing algorithms
• Do peer code review before committing to code repository
• Work on features and maintenance hot fixes of existing products
• Unit-test code for robustness; including edge cases, usability and general reliability
• Manage staging/test environment, and support software testing and quality assurance
• Improve application performance and other non-functional requirements such as reliability
• Suggest and implement improvements on current products
• Deliver technical discussions on implemented functionalities
• Comply with coding standards set by the organization
• Adapt the SCRUM process software development life cycle
• Participate in Sprint planning to assess and clarify requirements to the product owner
• Update the team on the status of tasks and raise potential blockers (if any) in the daily stand-up meeting
• Present completed features in the Sprint review to stakeholders
• Participate in team development activities (team building, training, etc.)
• Contribute to the success of the teams objectives
• Perform related duties as assigned

Working Relationships:

• Directly reports to the Technical Lead Software Developer

Working Location:

• Taguig City, Philippines

Qualification Standards:

Technical Skills:

• At least 3 years of professional software development experience
• Hands-on experience as a software developer in C++ with excellent track record
• Strong proficiency in C++ with fair knowledge of the language’s paradigms, constructs, patterns and idioms
• Knowledge of the standard library, STL containers and algorithms
• Good understanding of memory management in non-garbage collected environments
• Experience in SCRUM development process
• Experience with development collaboration tools (e.g., JIRA, Git)

Having any of the following is an advantage:

• Strong software development foundation implementing design patterns, OOP and coding best practices
• Experience in analyzing, profiling and determining bottlenecks for improving reliability and performance
• Exposure to or knowledge in high performance computing and low latency development
• Exposure to test driven development using Jenkins and other continuous integration technologies
• Experience working with C#
• Knowledge of low-level threading primitives and real-time environments
• Knowledge in system-level development in intermediate languages such as C
• Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON
• Experience in writing native modules for a high-level language (e.g. Golang, Java, Python)
• Experience in integrating 3rd party libraries, frameworks, messaging and services

Other Skills:

• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent problem-solving ability
• Would like to work as part of a self-organizing Scrum team in a scaled agile framework
• Resourceful and with a Good Learning Attitude
• Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• A team player and communicator who enjoys creative freedom and independence
• Proficient in oral and written English communication
• Excellent human relations and customer service skills
• Fast learner, short learning curve
• Ability to learn new language and technologies
• Can work with minimum supervision