Technical Lead C++

Role & responsibilities

• Work closely with stakeholders (product owners, architect, developers, subject matter experts and testers) to implement requirements into well-designed software solutions with an eye on scalability, quality, performance and maintainability.
• Work with the project manager / scrum master and delivery lead to contribute to the planning, design, development, testing, and maintenance of the product.
• Participate in agile development activities, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective meetings.
• Participate in creating architecture for new features and pro-actively promote SOLID principles.
• Design, code and unit test particularly large, complex or mission critical programs, modules or systems. As part of the team, ensure that the software is delivered according to agreed deadlines.
• Find and test new ways of improving existing software designs and solutions aiming for higher performance in terms of speed, data size and speed.
• Monitor teams compliance with processes, including agile development. With the project manager / scrum master, ensure that the agile development process is followed by the whole team.
• Support and mentor other software developers in the team. Ensure that the team has all the skills required to deliver.
• Provide expert advice in the programming methods, tools or standards used to complete sprint and project goals.

Preferred candidate profile

• Qualification in computer science.
• Scientific Background to implement/maintain algorithms (Math / Physics or Engineering) would be an advantage
• Respected and proven experience in software development in a commercial environment.
• Good level of experience of software application development using C++ in a Windows environment using Visual Studio.
• Experience in Technical Leader/ Architecture position
• Experience in C# development using .NET Core
• Experience of Python, numpy, MFC, Fortran, WPF, CMake, SWIG would be an advantage
• Thorough knowledge of the standard library (C++ 20), STL containers, and algorithms
• Knowledge and practice of SOLID OO-design principles and design patterns.
• API design.
• Experience in TDD, creating and maintaining unit tests including mocking.
• Experience in reviewing and testing development code.
• Experience of working within agile software development environment.
• Experience of source control systems such as Git.
• Experience with Azure DevOps would be an advantage.