Senior Software Engineer, Turnitin

• 5+ years experience of designing and developing applications using C++
• 1+ year of cloud development w/AWS preferred
• Extensive experience with software development best practices (e.g. design patterns, test-driven development, code profiling, debugging)
• Effective technical and cross-functional communication (product, design, operations)
• Strong work ethic, “self-starter”, endless improvement, eager learner

Desirable

• We are seeking C++ developers eager to solve challenging problems while maintaining quality, performance, and security. In this role, you’ll be working on various aspects of our codebase with support from top-notch colleagues
• Our work requires a strong understanding of algorithms, experience with desktop application development, and working with multiple languages and technology stacks, primarily C++ and JavaScript
• We use Kanban, an agile process, for our day-to-day work and project management. Our team is distributed across multiple time zones (US to UK), collaborates closely with our DevOps organization, and takes pride in the software we release
• Unit and integration tests are essential, and code ownership means we are the team on call if issues arise
• You’ll be working with people who love their jobs, relish challenges, and, most importantly, enjoy working together
• You will gain experience working at a leading company using the latest technologies and have a direct impact on our users worldwide
• Hands-on position which requires 90-95% of writing code
• Add new features to and maintain existing code
• Design and build new services that add customer value
• Improve stability and monitoring of existing workflows
• Work with services running in concert at large scale
• Provide guidance in technical design and development activities
• Ensure future success and stability through code reviews and automated testing
• Work closely with software architects and database/operations engineers on system infrastructure and design