Senior Software Developer

Posted:	12 November 2013
Company name:	Sophos Hungary Kft.
Location:	Budapest
	Hungary
Poster represents:	employer
Terms of employment:	Salaried employee
Hours:	full time
Onsite:	yes
Description: We are looking for an accomplished Senior developer to strengthen and extend the capability of our SophosLabs systems development using the latest technologies including cloud and bigdata. This role provides the opportunity to work in an open and collaborative environment as part of our SophosLabs systems development team. The team is focused on developing our most important infrastructure, which is used by SophosLabs to protect our customers. This infrastructure processes 100,000’s of malware samples a day, contains bigdata solutions and every seconds makes thousands of automated decisions that protect our customers. To succeed in this role you’ll be passionate about development on the Linux or Windows platform, and keen on to use your excellent programming and designing skills to help the team being successful. You can use and improve your knowledge while working on applications with high performance and availability. You’ll feel at home within an Agile team with its open communications, commitment to quality and focus on getting things “done, done”. Main duties . Agile Release Planning with product management, and other senior stakeholders (clarify requirements, break down into sensible releases, and estimate user stories); . Write or refactor high-quality code and tests, pairing with other engineers; . Collaborate with QA engineers to test the product (unit, component and automated functional tests, help with manual tests if needed); . Communicating effectively, removing impediments to the team’s progress, asking for and offering help when needed
Required skills: . University/college degree in computer science . Minimum 3 years experience in C/C++ . Comprehensive experience in Linux or Windows platform . High-level experience in working with SQL databases . Experience with scripting languages including Unix Shell or PERL . Proven track record of designing & developing reliable, maintainable, high quality code that’s well unit-tested . Reliable knowledge of different network protocols (HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, TCP/IP) . Experience of working in Agile (Scrum) environment . Ability to work with the relevant stakeholders to extract and understand product requirements . Excellent communication and problem solving skills . Team player . Fluent English
Desired skills: . Experience in distributed database . Web UI development experience . Security software development experience . Proficient in using development tools (source control, static analysis, profilers, make, coverage analysis etc.)
URL for more information: http://prodcms.sophos.com/en-us/about-us/careers/hungary/senior-developer-system-developer.aspx
Contact information: If you have the relevant experience, please send your CV to budapestjobs@sophos.com