Senior Backend C++ Developer

Responsibilities:

• Develop high-volume, low-latency programs for mission-critical systems, delivering high availability and performance.

• Be involved in the design process of programs, working closely with architects.

• Assist with change management, capacity planning and emergency response as an expert in the runtime environment and business logic behavior.

• Give input and contribute to monitoring & alerting requirements and implementation.
• Prepare and perform releases of software components.
• Help develop & maintain your team’s CI/CD needs.
• Support continuous improvement by investigating alternative technologies and presenting these for architectural review.
• Serve as mentor/coach to more junior team members. Positively impact the team skills by imparting your wealth of knowledge to the team and learning along the way.
• Translate non-technical and technical requirements to appropriate audiences.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of C++ development experience, strong interest in problem-solving, strong analytical skills & independence.

• Good understanding of toolchains: compiler, debugging principals, including analyzing performance problems and finding

• Good understanding of common design patterns & architecture in OO software technologies.

• Understanding of building and deploying large-scale systems.

• Knowledge of cryptography (symmetric, asymmetric) and security practices.

• Experience in developing highly scalable REST microservices.

• Know data serialization RPC.

• Experience in embedded systems.

• Strong understanding of core C++, optimization opportunities.

• Distributed computing: Load balancing, Caching, CAP theorem.

• Experience with managing high-load performance applications: monitoring on all layers from CPU to application metrics.

• Understanding of common design patterns.

  
  

Beneficial requirements:

• Hands-on Linux experience.

• Command line tools (GCC, GDB, Make).

• Knowledge of networking concepts and protocols.

• Knowledge of communication with external hardware (Ethernet, serial, etc.)

• Experience with monitoring & logging technologies (Wazuh,s plunk, New Relic...)

• Experience with infrastructure technologies (AWS, k8s, Terraform, Docker...)

• BS/MS degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.

Location: Abuja

Note: This is an onsite role and the potential candidate will be required to work onsite only