Lead Backend Engineer (C/C++)
Integrant, Inc.4 months ago
Cairo, EgyptStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, maintain, and optimize high-performance backend applications using C and C++.
- Build scalable, reliable, and maintainable software solutions, reusable components, libraries, and frameworks.
- Participate in architecture discussions, technical design reviews, requirements analysis, and solution design.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship, review code, and drive software design, testing, documentation, and coding best practices.
- Optimize performance, memory usage, concurrency, and application responsiveness.
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, Project Leads, QA Engineers, DevOps teams, clients, and other stakeholders.
- Write unit and integration tests, support automation efforts, and troubleshoot complex production issues.
- Contribute to project planning, estimation, risk identification, system reliability, performance, and security improvements.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software development experience.
- Strong hands-on experience developing backend systems with C and C++.
- Proven experience building and maintaining large-scale, high-performance applications.
- Strong expertise in modern C++ and knowledge of object-oriented programming, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and software engineering principles.
- Experience with multithreading, concurrency, synchronization, parallel programming, memory management, performance tuning, and complex debugging.
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, sockets, and communication protocols.
- Experience developing software on Linux and proficiency with Git.
- Experience with relational databases such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or MySQL.
- Understanding of distributed systems and familiarity with microservices architecture.
- Experience in Agile/Scrum environments and direct client or distributed-team collaboration is preferred.
- Preferred qualifications include embedded, real-time, or high-performance computing experience; AWS, Azure, or GCP experience; Docker and Kubernetes familiarity; CI/CD and DevOps experience; Python or Bash scripting; and domain experience in financial systems, telecommunications, gaming, healthcare, or enterprise applications.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, stakeholder management, ownership, mentoring, and technical influence skills.
Benefits
- Hybrid workplace in Cairo, Egypt.
- Salary paid in USD; no specific base salary amount is stated.
- Six-month career-advancing opportunities.
- Supportive and friendly work environment.
- Premium medical insurance for the employee and family.
- English language development courses and technical development courses.
- Interest-free loans paid over 2.5 years.
- Employment referral program.
- Premium location in Maadi.
- Social insurance.
Tech Stack
AWSAzureBashCC++DockerGitGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesLinuxMicrosoft SQL ServerMySQLPostgreSQLPython
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About Integrant, Inc.
Integrant, Inc. is a privately held software engineering services firm that builds custom enterprise systems and regulated‑industry applications for global clients. Founded in 1992 and headquartered in San Diego, it delivers development, QA automation, and legacy modernization, and integrates AI agents/LLMs across its agentic SDLC. The company serves medical devices, life sciences/pharma (GxP/21 CFR Part 11), financial services, manufacturing, and public‑sector customers, with engineering centers in Cairo and Amman.