C/C++ Engineer

Job overview

• ClearScale is looking for an experienced C/C++ Engineer to participate in a large-scale migration of IBM mainframe applications to the AWS cloud.
• We are hiring for the multi-year project related to migration from an IBM Mainframe to the new AWS cloud infrastructure, including legacy applications re-factoring to microservice architecture and using cloud-native AWS services and best practices.
• You will become part of a distributed engineering team that is responsible for preparing infrastructure, re-hosting apps and re-designing legacy code as necessary to enable a prominent client to solidify the cloud journey. This would be a mass migration led by ClearScale with hundreds of servers on the inventory list. The technologies include C, GTK, GCC and Linux.

Job responsibilities

• Participate in developing migration strategy for a large-scale re-platform and re-factor of the IBM mainframe applications to AWS Cloud.
• Re-platform legacy program modules onto a new platform (Linux on AWS), and re-design program code written in C if applicable.
• Examine code performance and advise necessary infrastructure and design changes.
• Collaborate with team lead, in-house and external development and analytical teams across multiple time zones.

Required skills and experience

ClearScale expects the successful candidate to have most of the following qualifications and skills (not necessary all have to be presented):

• We are looking for a candidate with 5+ years of a C/C++ development experience including cross-platform compiling, running and debugging complex performance sensitive systems with 1M+ lines of code.
• Solid Linux expertise including network monitoring tools, TCP/HTTP protocols and troubleshooting practices.
• Solid understanding of microservice architectures, its benefits and drawbacks in AWS Cloud.
• Excellent skill set to reverse engineer complex systems and produce crystal clear specs for development team.
• Experience with IBM Mainframe products is a huge plus.
• Decent knowledge and practical experience working with SQL and noSQL databases is a big plus.
• Experience with modern development practices — Agile, tooling (Git, Jenkins, Maven/Gradle) and QA (JUnit, Integration tests).
• Strong self-management and self-organizational skills working in a remote environment.
• English upper intermediate.

Successful candidates should have experience with any of the following software/tools (not all required at the same time):

• Message queue systems: ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS.
• Background or practical experience with AWS services (e.g. Lambda, EKS, RDS, DocumentDB or Cognito) would be a great plus.

What we offer

Fair wage:

• Fixed hourly rate in USD.
• Full-time, 40 hours per week contract. It’s your main and permanent place of work, not a freelance job.
• Payments every 2 weeks.
• Annual Hourly Rate Review: received client's appreciation, obtained an AWS certificate, saved the world?The reward is based on facts, not on a personal attitude.
• Reference program: many engineers joined the team by the recommendation from their friends and former colleagues, and we have a reward for this.
• 4 weeks of annual vacation.

Independence:

• From the office location or office conditions because it's only up to you where you want to work from — home, office, co-working or outdoors in the woods. The only requirement — fast and reliable internet. At the same time, our engineers do not work evenings or weekends: we focus on your local timezone.
• From any annoyance or big team buzz — we are the community of professional engineers, valuing each others' time and effort.
• From corruption and bureaucracy — we operate in an honest and competitive environment, and we are one of the AWS's top 10 key partners.

Professional Development:

• Work with innovative Silicon Valley companies and traditional American companies at the cutting edge of digital transformation.
• We work with the newest technologies in AWS cloud and open-source tools like Jira, Confluence, Lucidchart, Slack etc.
• Constant practice in written and spoken English.
• The team willing to share its experience.
• Paid AWS certifications: we provide training material, paid time off and examination itself.
• Horizontal and vertical career growth — we keep growing and people keep growing with us.