Software Engineer (C++)

Institutional clients include pension funds, endowments and insurance companies. Most staff have been with the firm for more than eight years.

The position

Hill Country Advisors is looking for a Software Engineer (C++) to join a small, steady team. This is a hands-on coding role on software used by a few hundred thousand people. Expect code review, design discussions and a fair amount of debugging. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in India, with a local contract and salary paid in Indian rupees. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET. Most communication happens in Slack, with short video calls when needed.

Duties

• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana

Minimum qualifications

• 3-5 years of professional software development experience
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• 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
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers

Preferred qualifications

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Kubernetes and Docker in production

Rate: ₹31-36 LPA

What we offer

• 20 days paid time off
• Wellness allowance
• Annual learning budget
• Company laptop

Please submit your CV in English.

Please mention your notice period and expected salary.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Hill Country Advisors.