Senior Software Developer - Dublin

Dublin  ‐ Onsite
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GENERAL PURPOSE OF THE JOB:

A Senior Software Engineer works as part of a software development team. They will be involved in the specification, design, planning, implementation and maintenance of the system and will take a lead role in some of these activities.

It is expected that the software engineer will have a positive influence on the team and will have an excellent knowledge of software development best practice. Mentoring of more junior colleagues may also be required in this role.

MAIN FUNCTIONS OF THE JOB:

  • Contributes to the delivery of high quality products and/or sub-systems to agreed deadlines.
  • Implements component tests and carries out test runs.
  • Investigation and resolution (where necessary) of customer issues.
  • Participates in code reviews, identifying risks, and escalating issues when necessary.
  • Collaborate with other developers, QA and other parties to ensure high quality software.
  • Identifies best practice improvements and makes changes as agreed with Team Leader.
  • Provides information to the project leader to assist with project planning
  • Provides input on technical direction.
  • Keeps technical skills up to date.

QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS REQUIRED:

  • Extensive programming experience with C++ programming language
  • Excellent knowledge and working experience of development (design, building, testing, debugging etc) on Linux operating systems, using development life cycle supporting tool/technologies including Perforce, Jira, Teamcity or equivalent.
  • Excellent hands-on knowledge of those best practices used on a day-to-day basis
  • Familiar with relevant industry standards and trends
  • Good Knowledge of security technology and systems.
  • Displays energy and initiative in solving daily problems. Follows all possible avenues to get the job done. Identifies and confronts problems, proposes solutions or escalates when appropriate.
  • Can communicate clearly both verbally and in writing with team members and with other groups, if necessary. Is seen as approachable by others. Good technical documentation skills
  • Organizes own schedule to deliver on commitments in a timely manner. Producesplans that are visible and useful to Team Leader.
  • Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness, and strives towards excellence.
  • Isdecisive on issues affecting own work/domain even when confronted with equally attractive options; or when all of the facts are not available.
  • Recognizes discordant views and takes part in constructive dialogue.

QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS DESIRED:

  • Good knowledge and working experience of building applications for the Windows operating system with MFC.
  • Good knowledge and ideally working experience of developing for other Unix platforms, especially Solaris. Ideally experience with build systems such as Jam and make.
  • Good knowledge and ideally working experience with Oracle Databases and ideally working experience with SQL, PL/SQL and the pro*C precompiler.
  • Good knowledge and ideally working experience of other programming/Scripting languages such as Java, Unix Shell Scripting and Perl Scripting.
  • Experience of writing unit tests for new and Legacy code using a unit test framework (ideally cppunit, googletest) and mocking framework for C++ (ideally googlemock)
  • Experience of parsing, validating, serializing and manipulating XML in C++ and ideally experience of same using the Apache Xerces-C++ parser.

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Start date
ASAP
Duration
6-12 months
From
Advantage XPO
Published at
07.11.2012
Project ID:
444117
Contract type
Freelance
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