Expert Software Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and maintain complex, high-performance applications in C++ (C++11/14/17/20 and beyond)
• Take ownership of critical system components with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance
• Design and implement solutions involving advanced memory management and concurrent/multithreaded architecture
• Lead code reviews and enforce coding standards and best practices across the team
• Define and maintain CMake-based build systems and manage multi-platform build configurations
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines and Docker-based containerisation workflows
• Diagnose and resolve complex issues using tools such as GDB and Valgrind; lead performance profiling and tuning initiatives
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in a Linux-based development environment
• Contribute to and maintain automation scripts using Python and shell scripting
• Interact with relational data sources using SQL where required
• Manage source code, branching strategies, and release workflows using Git
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers; drive technical growth across the team
• Participate in system design discussions, technical planning, and effort estimation

Required Skills & Experience Technical

• 10+ years of experience in Mainframe Skills COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2 and VSM
• Expert understanding of dynamic memory allocation, RAII, smart pointers (unique_ptr, shared_ptr, weak_ptr)
• Experience diagnosing and resolving memory leaks, dangling pointers, and buffer overflows
• Familiarity with custom allocators and memory pool strategies
• Strong command of the C++ threading model (std::thread, std::mutex, std::atomic, std::condition_variable)
• Experience with lock-free and wait-free programming patterns
• Ability to identify and resolve race conditions, deadlocks, and thread-safety issues
• Expert-level experience with CMake for cross-platform build configuration
• Proficiency with Docker for containerised development and deployment environments