C++11/14 Lead Engineer (Embedded Linux)

C++ coding and debugging to strengthen and optimize systems.

○ Design and architecture (HLD/LLD) to ensure scalable and robust solutions.

● 10–15 years in the tech industry, with 2–4 years in technical leadership or managerial roles.

● Technical Expertise: Expertise in C++ development, enterprise architecture, andscalable system design, and proficiency in performance optimization, scalability,software architecture, and networking principles.

Extensive experience managing the full development lifecycle of large-scale softwareproducts, from concept to deployment.

● Strong knowledge of STL containers, multi-threading concepts, and algorithms.

Solid understanding of memory management and efficient resource utilization.

● Microservices Architecture Expertise: Experience in designing and implementing

scalable, reliable microservices.

● Strong Communication & Decision-Making Skills: Ability to clearly articulate

trade-offs, make informed decisions, and ensure alignment across stakeholders.

● Commitment to Creating and fostering Engineering Excellence: Deep

understanding of best practices, including code quality, testability, security, and

release management, and passion for fostering a strong engineering culture and

continuously improving developer workflows and tools.

● Self-Driven and Motivated: Ability to operate independently while driving impactful

results.

My Client's India is its largest studio outside USA with 400+ people and growing rapidly. It manages some of the biggest global games in the Casual Gaming, Action Strategy, Match-3, Slots, and Invest Express genres. The game teams are responsible for the long term-vision of the game, its entire Game Design & Tuning, Product Roadmap, Features, Content & Creative decisions, Art work (2D, 3D, Animation), Development, QA/Testing, Analytics & Performance Tracking, User Acquisition & Live Operations.

The India team is full of passionate gamers, who love to play, build great products, and have fun doing it. Studio I expect continued growth and is looking for strong leaders to expand the studio into this next growth phase.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the software design of large scale applications and features & enhancements which reaches millions of players. You should be passionate about players, performance, scalability and holds a very high bar for quality of the game.

Responsibilities

• Work with Product Management to translate business requirements into technical requirements.
• Owns technical roadmap, design and review for end-to-end games, ensure design quality and integrity
• Modernizing the tech stack
• Bring tech innovations in the game which will help in growth of the games
• Design, code, and develop new features/fix bugs/add enhancements
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability and stability of various system resources
• Lead and Mentor junior engineers and drive a culture of technical perfection.
• Drive creative and innovative solutions to complex problems, exemplifying good technical discernment.
• Drive improvements and new approaches to address potential systemic pain points and technical debt, anticipate and avoid problems.
• Take a hands-on approach in the development of prototypes, independently and with others, to establish design decisions and/or technical feasibility.

Required Skills

• Masters or Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
• A minimum of 7 years of professional experience in software development, mobile, desktop or web application development with hands on coding experience covering full stack
• Experience coding in C#, C++, Python, Javascript and SQL
• Working knowledge of mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.
• A proven foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, OOPS and software design
• Strong problem solving and debugging skills
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

Desired Skills

• Experience with mobile development – Android/iOS/Native OR on game engines such as Cocos-2D, Unity or other.

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (EC2, ELBs, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, terraform etc)
• Experience with setting up server monitoring, alerting and server provisioning
• Familiarity with micro service architecture, containers and related technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
• Experience with development tools & integrated build systems: XCode, IntelliJ, Git/Jenkins
• Experience of driving activities, review process to ensure software and product quality.
• Willing to pick up any languages, technologies, or methodologies necessary to smite a challenge—and if a conventional solution does not exist, then innovate as necessary.

What we offer you:

• Work in a studio that has complete P&L ownership of games
• Competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus scheme and  RSUs
• Full medical, accident as well as life insurance benefits
• Catered breakfast, lunch and evening snacks
• Child care facilities for women employees and discounted facilities for male employees
• Well stocked pantry
• Generous Paid Maternity/Paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Active Employee Resource Groups – Women 
• Frequent employee events
• Additional leave options for most employees
• Flexible working hours on many teams
• Casual dress every single day
• Work with cool people and impact millions of daily players!

• Design the architecture of new services to deliver timely communication from server to
• client and server to server, while still functioning alongside existing server components
• Describe and implement the communications across multiple network layers, considering
• performance, reliability, and flexibility with respect to the underlying infrastructure
• Enhance and expand the ORM layer of the studio’s in-house web framework
• Craft software solutions for supporting flexibility in resource allocation, from compute to storage
• Consult with technical operations on appropriate Kubernetes-based infrastructure design
• Design for performance, and measure the effects
• Review your colleagues’ code, and learn from their reviews as well
• Identify, document, and communicate best practices for the engineers who use the fruits of your labour
• Requirements:
• 7+ years professional work experience
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
• Must be proactive, self-directed, detailed and organized
• Proficient in PHP, C++, or Go
• Knowledge of relational databases and SQL, preferably MySQL
• Experience with in-memory NoSQL databases, such as Redis
• Ability to debug issues within custom code quickly
• Passion for developing scalable and maintainable software systems

As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you have industry-leading technical abilities and demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge. You build software to deliver business impact, making smart technology choices. You work in a team and drive things forward.

Top Skills

• You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code, often in Java or C++/C/Python/ROR/C#
• You recognize and adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.
• You have experience building scalable software systems that are high-performance, highly-available, highly transactional, low latency and massively distributed.

Roles & Responsibilities

• You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
• You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.
• You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.
• You recognize and use design patterns to solve business problems.
• You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.
• You continually align your work with Amazon’s business objectives and seek to deliver business value.
• You collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer.
• You proactively support knowledge-sharing and build good working relationships within the team and with others in Amazon.
• You communicate clearly with your team and with other groups and listen effectively.

Skills & Experience

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or relevant technical field.
• Experience in software development and full product life-cycle.
• Excellent programming skills in any object oriented programming languages - preferably Java, C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, or Ruby.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.
• Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.