Location: Auckland or working remotely within NZ

Job Type: Full-time, permanent

About the role

As a Senior C++ Backend Engineer, you'll work alongside an international team architecting and developing a C++ service that provides access to MEGA through a state-of-the-art standard RESTful API: AWS S3. Part of a global team, you'll report to the C++ Backend Team Lead.

You'll make an impact by:

• extending our current service offerings by adding new features consistent with MEGA's guidelines and standards
• writing high-quality code and participating in code reviews
• actively engaging with team members, and mentoring as well as supporting them
• helping resolve technical challenges, problems, and bottlenecks to boost our server performance and security
• risk assessing technical problems, existing approaches, and patterns, and actively seeking solutions
• implementing unitary and integration tests
• contributing to engineering guidelines and our technical infrastructure to help enhance our products and improve reliability and efficiency
• collaborating with other engineers as well as product, design, and QA teams to ensure great user experiences
• adhering to our high security and privacy standards underpinned by our zero-knowledge encryption.

This role requires flexible working hours as you will collaborate with teams globally.

About you

You enjoy transforming complex problems into simple, efficient and correct algorithms.

You are platform-agnostic and able to work with MEGA's build environments for networks and servers.

You’re proactive, self-motivated, disciplined, and willing to step out of your comfort zone to try something new.

You have:

• Over 6 years of experience in C++ software development in a commercial environment
• experience working with C++17 and using git for version control
• experience debugging, core dump analysis, deadlock identification, and memory corruption analysis
• experience in software profiling and in identifying bottlenecks and inefficiencies
• experience in Linux development
• knowledge of POSIX
• desirable experience or knowledge of AWS S3, IPC mechanisms, and multi-threading programming
• experience in network technology and server development
• an eye for detail and coding accuracy with a drive to present Clean Code
• excellent verbal and written communication skills
• good command of English.

Qualifications

Ideally, you hold a tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.