Senior Software Engineer (CC++)

Calnex Solutions is an innovative and successful company that develops software enabled leading edge test & measurement products that test networks and network dependent applications to prove performance and usability.

Our developers work in multi-discipline and dynamic product development teams that work closely with marketing and sales turning market and customer requirements into innovative impactful products.

Our R&D team is growing to support our expanding product portfolio. As part of this growth we have an exciting opportunity for a C/C Senior Software Engineer to work on our NE-ONE network emulation product family. This is an ideal opportunity for someone wishing to utilize their experience in highly performant software development. The successful candidate will enjoy working with a small team on the leading edge and be able to innovate and deliver in a fast paced and busy environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Designing implementing and maintaining complex back end solutions to deliver new products and features with full end to end ownership.
• Working closely with product owners to understand and refine high level system requirements into deliverables.
• Contributing to the architecture implementation and evolution of system software to keep it performant scalable flexible and maintainable as requirements evolve
• Estimating timescales based on an outline of the implementation and then developing and delivering quality software to those timescales
• Supporting quality-oriented activities necessary to deliver a product that will delight our customers

Essential Skills:

• Educated to Degree level in Computer Science Software Engineering or equivalent
• At least 5 years experience in software development
• At least 2 years experience developing in a Linux environment using the GNU suite (gcc gdb)
• At least 2 years experience mentoring and supporting other software development engineers
• Strong C programming experience and Object-oriented techniques
• Strong logical and analytical skills
• Network programming experience
• Multithreaded programming experience
• Python programming experience
• Ability to innovate and think outside the box
• Able to decompose complex problems into smaller more manageable units and estimate the timescales involved
• Demonstrated ability to plan and meet tight deadlines in a dynamic environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Desirable Skills:

• Practical experience designing automated CI/CD pipelines utilizing Jenkins and GitHub Actions
• DPDK programming experience
• High-performance / real-time systems programming experience
• JavaScript experience
• Proficiency in Docker and container orchestration workflows
• Familiar with Terraform and AWS cloud services

Calnex is an inclusive supportive and growing company with a strong focus on employee engagement and wellbeing. We strive to provide a working environment that develops and challenges our employees.

We reward success and offer competitive salaries. Our comprehensivebenefits packageincludes a contributory pension plan flexible holidays life assurance critical illness cover private healthcareperformancebonusand an opportunity to join the Calnex Employee Share Incentive Plan.

The Calnex team are currently working in a hybrid model attheirmanagers discretion. This flexibility is dependent on job role and supports a positive work/life balance and the needs of the business. This role requires a minimum of2working days in the office(Tuesday and Thursday) withthe other threedaysat homewhen possible. This may vary depending onwhatsrequired to fulfil the requirements of the role.

Pleasetake a lookatour website to find out more about what we do and whatitslike to be an employee at Calnex!

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