Senior C/C++ Developer

Thales

Tubize, Belgium

Mission:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and develop software solutions for our customers in Defense, Security and Aerospace domains.

You will work on projects which can be very different in nature, usually characterized by strong regulatory requirements and their complexity, such air traffic management, Key Management System, IP encryption devices…

You will develop using the newest features and development techniques.

Main Responsibilities:

Mentor more junior developers with the help of other Senior team members;
As a senior member of the team, you bring strong expertise and leadership across the whole development cycle, playing a key role in delivering the best solution considering all stakeholders’ perspectives (customer, engineering, QA, business, supply chain…);
You analyze and transform requirements into optimal technical design, in accordance with state-of-the-art best practices, allocating functions to the software components, and defining interfaces and communication mechanisms;
You help the Software Engineering Manager and the Software Architect defining the development strategy, and provide robust and reliable estimation for work packages to develop (cost, schedule) and assessment of technical risks;
You develop and unit test software components;
You participate, and possibly lead, peer and engineering reviews;
You participate, when needed, in higher-level testing (integration, verification, validation);
You coordinate and lead the resolution of technical issues, and analyze root cause of problems;
You establish and maintain working relationships with the other departments, QA, domain experts, IVVQ, subcontractors…;
You actively help the Head of Software defining the technological and organizational orientations for the department, and play a key role in the technology watch process (identify, evaluate and recommend new technologies/processes/tools);
You represent Thales Belgium towards customers and other corporate entities for technical matters;
You will report to Thales Belgium’s Head of Software.

Your general profile:

You have a Bachelor's or Master's degree in IT orientation or equivalent experience;
You have at least 6 years' solid experience as a C/C++ developer;
You want to get involved in a company project strongly oriented towards collective intelligence and self-management;
You will be able to be autonomous;
You act as a role model team member;
You have experience in most of the following technical areas:
- Linux as dev and target env (knowledges about yocto is a plus);
- You know software engineering fundamentals and best practices, and apply them: object-orientation, SOLID principles, design patterns, unit testing/mocks, continuous integration, code versioning (Git), Agile…;
- Network Protocols (TCP/UPD,…);
- PKI, TLS and secure communication in general;
- Code benchmarking and performance optimization;
- Design, build and maintain efficient and reliable C++ code;
- Maintenance and care of C++ code quality.
Knowledge in the following technologies is a plus:
Knowledges in embedded is a plus but not necessary (STM32, FPGA, ...);
Concurrent, multi-threaded programming, and distributed systems;
Secure coding;
Rust (or you are eager to learn it);
Full professional proficiency in English. French and/or Dutch is a plus.