Senior Software Developer, C++

Regional offices in Karachi and five other cities support agents and policyholders.

Role overview:

We are adding headcount to this team, so this is a new seat. Lanternhold is hiring for the Senior Software Developer, C++ role on our Payments team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in Pakistan. You can set your own hours around a daily morning check-in. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Day to day:

• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.

Preferred qualifications:

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain.

Salary: PKR 270,000-PKR 320,000 per month

Perks and benefits:

• Medical insurance.
• Provident fund.
• Paid leave.
• Life insurance.
• Two bonuses a year.
• Fuel allowance.

Candidates must be eligible to work in Pakistan.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Lanternhold Ltd..