Embedded Software Team Leader - C++

C++ Software Embedded Team Leader

Description

In this role, you will lead a team responsible for developing embedded software for high-capacity, point-to-multi-point communication systems for cutting-edge devices that are aggregated into a software defined network.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading and actively participating in architecture, design, and implementation of highly scalable and fault-tolerant object-oriented software solutions.
• Leading a team of 1-2 Software Engineers, providing technical mentorship and managing their career development.
• Acting as Scrum Master and ensuring efficient agile processes within the team.
• Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code
• Integrating third-party and open-source software.
• Understanding detailed functional specifications and ensuring alignment with customer needs.
• Collaborating regularly with cross-functional teams such as System, DevOps, and QA to ensure smooth integration.
• Communicating with product and project management teams to provide status updates.
• Providing workload or task estimations for new features, improvements, or bug fixes.
• Conducting code reviews and providing feedback to foster best practices.
• Troubleshooting and debugging issues that arise during the development process.
• Leading the planning, testing, and deployment of new products and features, ensuring robust test coverage using unit and integration tests.

Requirements

The ideal candidate has the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar degree
• Proven experience of 3+ years with SW embedded team management
• Proven experience of 5+ years with Modern C++ (at least C++11, lambdas, smart pointers)
• Proven experience of 3+ years with Linux user space development 
• Experience with Git, Bash, Jenkins
• Strong networking background - significant advantage
• Experience with Yocto / OpenEmbedded - advantage
• Experience with DPDK / Userspace Packet processing - advantage
• Experience with Linux Kernel development - advantage
• Experience with BSP development and board bring up - advantage
• Experience with Python - advantage
• Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to communicate effectively
• Proactive and independent
• Meticulous and focused on code quality
• Advanced level of written and spoken English

Experience Level

Senior Level