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Senior C++ Software Engineer (Remote/Anywhere)

Remote:

Full Remote

Contract:

Full time

Experience:

Senior (5-10 years)

Work from:

United Kingdom

Offer summary

Qualifications:

Extensive experience in C++ development, BS/BA or extensive experience as a Software Engineer, Knowledge of open source technologies, Experience with unit testing and version control systems.

Key responsabilities:

Root cause analysis and fixing document interoperability issues
Designing and implementing solutions leveraging open source technologies

Collabora SME https://www.collabora.com/

51 - 200 Employees

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Job description

Collabora Productivity Ltd. is a software company specialising in bringing the innovation created in Open Source projects such as LibreOffice to the market, along with services, long term support and software consultancy. We combine years of open source software leadership with an understanding of the challenges that businesses, non-profits, and governments face.

Collabora Productivity brings deep technical expertise around the Office space, from our preferred Open Document format to many other, including legacy, document formats such as OpenXML and Microsoft binary formats, using modern technologies like C++ 17.

Key Responsibilities

Root cause analysis and fixing of document interoperability issues

Analysing client problems, designing, and implementing solutions leveraging open source technologies and communicating the solutions in a compelling fashion

Annual conference attendance to present progress made to the Open Source community

Self starting analysis of limited project descriptions, ability to break complex tasks down into smaller deliverables, execute and report progress against these

Assistance in estimation of project costs

Implementation of features based on unclear customer input to exceed their expectations

Communication with the community, other team members, and customers using mailing lists, chats, phone and video conference

Capacity to travel a few times per year worldwide

Reliable and timely delivery of quality solutions to clients and internal customers

Development of strong relationships with key personnel, decision makers and customers

Commercial Skills

Understanding client needs and reconciling time constraints, available technologies and resources and open source best practices

Ability to work in a global context with clients and engineers spanning continents

Knowledge of customers’ organization, management, product, target market, applications and decision making internal process

Technical Skills

Large scale C++ development experience, on projects of > 1 million lines of code

LibreOffice development experience preferred

Excellent code reading skills

Office Suite, file format and binary file format reverse engineering experience a plus

Good interpersonal skills, along with knowledge of open source development methodologies and good standing in the open source community

Significant demonstrable contributions to components in the open source ecosystem

BS/BA or extensive experience in the role of Software Engineer

Experience of unit testing

Cross-platform aware, deep knowledge of either Linux, MS Windows, or OSX, and some knowledge of one more platform (Cygwin knowledge helpful if MS Windows is the core skill)

Experience with Android, iOS or another mobile operating system a bonus

Casual scripting in Perl / Python / BASH or other language(s)

Version control systems – ideally knowledge of git

Personal Skills

Highly self motivated, reliable with a demonstrable passion for Open Source and the office domain

Able to work from home office, managing own time effectively

Self learning skill to get sufficient knowledge of Collabora's services, business model, project delivery lifecycle and other related technical domains

Good interpersonal skills

Winsome presentation skills appreciated

Good English language skills (both verbal and written)

German language skills a bonus

Ability to work and communicate in an online distributed environment

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