Senior C++ Software Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Root cause analysis and fixing of document interoperability issues
• Analysing client problems, designing, and implementing solutions leveraging open source technologies and communicating the solutions in a compelling fashion
• Annual conference attendance to present progress made to the Open Source community
• Self starting analysis of limited project descriptions, ability to break complex tasks down into smaller deliverables, execute and report progress against these
• Assistance in estimation of project costs
• Implementation of features based on unclear customer input to exceed their expectations
• Communication with the community, other team members, and customers using mailing lists, chats, phone and video conference
• Capacity to travel a few times per year worldwide
• Reliable and timely delivery of quality solutions to clients and internal customers
• Development of strong relationships with key personnel, decision makers and customers

Commercial Skills

• Understanding client needs and reconciling time constraints, available technologies and resources and open source best practices
• Ability to work in a global context with clients and engineers spanning continents
• Knowledge of customers’ organization, management, product, target market, applications and decision making internal process

Technical Skills

• Large scale C++ development experience, on projects of > 1 million lines of code
• LibreOffice development experience preferred
• Excellent code reading skills
• Office Suite, file format and binary file format reverse engineering experience a plus
• Good interpersonal skills, along with knowledge of open source development methodologies and good standing in the open source community
• Significant demonstrable contributions to components in the open source ecosystem
• BS/BA or extensive experience in the role of Software Engineer
• Experience of unit testing
• Cross-platform aware, deep knowledge of either Linux, MS Windows, or OSX, and some knowledge of one more platform (Cygwin knowledge helpful if MS Windows is the core skill)
• Experience with Android, iOS or another mobile operating system a bonus
• Casual scripting in Perl / Python / BASH or other language(s)
• Version control systems – ideally knowledge of git