Senior C++ Software Engineer

Summary

Join Collabora Productivity Ltd., a software company specializing in bringing open-source innovations to market, as a Software Engineer. You will be responsible for root cause analysis and fixing document interoperability issues, analyzing client problems, and implementing solutions using open-source technologies. The role requires strong C++ development experience, knowledge of open-source methodologies, and excellent communication skills. You will work with clients and engineers globally, contributing to open-source projects and delivering high-quality solutions. The position offers remote work flexibility and opportunities to present at annual conferences.

Requirements

• Large scale C++ development experience, on projects of > 1 million lines of code
• Excellent code reading skills
• 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)
• Good English language skills (both verbal and written)
• Ability to work and communicate in an online distributed environment

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
• Reliable and timely delivery of quality solutions to clients and internal customers
• Development of strong relationships with key personnel, decision makers and customers
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• LibreOffice development experience
• Office Suite, file format and binary file format reverse engineering experience
• Experience with Android, iOS or another mobile operating system
• Casual scripting in Perl / Python / BASH or other language(s)
• Version control systems – ideally knowledge of git
• Winsome presentation skills
• German language skills

Benefits

• Able to work from home office, managing own time effectively
• Capacity to travel a few times per year worldwide