Location: Auckland, New Zealand or working remotely within NZ

Job Type: Full time, Permanent

About the role

As a Senior C++ Qt Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting, developing, programming and testing our MEGA desktop application. Part of a global team, you will report to the C++ Qt Team Lead.

How you'll make an impact

• Work on MEGA's front-end Qt desktop application in Windows, Linux and MacOS platforms.
• Integrate with our underlying SDK, including creating a graphical user interface to offer a great experience for our users.
• Mentor and guide team members on best practice engineering techniques and help resolve technical challenges and problems.
• Contribute to engineering guidelines and our technical infrastructure to help enhance our products and improve reliability and efficiency.
• Cross-team collaboration with other engineers as well as product, design, and QA teams to ensure great user experiences whilst also adhering to our high security and privacy standards which are underpinned by our end-to-end encryption.

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

About you

You enjoy building world-class products which are technically robust and user-friendly.

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

You have:

• 5+ years experience in C++ software development in a commercial environment
• demonstrated experience that includes working with C++11, Qt for developing GUIs, app profiling, and using git for version control
• the ability to adapt to cross-platform development environments for desktop
• experience designing strong algorithms along with the ability to write test cases to exercise critical functionality
• an eye for detail and a drive to present Clean Code

Qualifications

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