Senior C++ Engineer

Senior C Engineer

Direct Hire- Full Time

Competitive Salary with Equity

Location: Boston, Massachusetts

We’re seeking a highly experienced C/C engineer with a passion for performance, scalability, and cross-platform engineering for our client in Boston! This is a hands-on role requiring deep C experience — ideally with modern C standards — and an understanding of large-scale systems across desktop, mobile, and the cloud. Bonus points if you’ve explored embedded Chromium UIs or worked at the intersection of native and web technologies.

What You’ll Be Building

Cross-Platform Native Applications:

• Build and maintain multi-platform apps that work across Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android.
• Use platform-specific tooling (Visual Studio, Xcode, Android Studio) and write platform-agnostic code where possible.

Cloud-Native Distributed Systems:

• Design and implement large-scale backend services that run in AWS or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• Write efficient code that’s scalable and fault-tolerant.

Performance-Focused C Engineering:

• Leverage modern C (C 11, C 14, C 17, or later) for thread-safe, optimized code.
• Use advanced memory management techniques, modern STL, and concurrency libraries.

Tech Stack You’ll Touch

• Languages: C , C, Go (Golang), JavaScript
• Cloud: AWS, OCI
• Frameworks: Chromium / CEF
• Frontend Adjacent: WebAssembly, JavaScript, browser extensions
• Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android

Tech & Architecture Exposure (Nice-to-Haves)

(These aren’t required — but will help you hit the ground running):

Chromium & CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework):

• Experience embedding browser UIs within desktop apps.
• Familiarity with customizing or extending Chromium internals.

JavaScript & WebAssembly:

• Used to bridge native C with in-app scripting or web-based UI layers.
• Knowledge of how WebAssembly can compile C to run inside a browser.

Networking Protocols & Architecture:

• Understand TCP/IP, HTTP, WebSocket, and other protocols used in distributed systems.
• Experience designing systems that handle inter-process communication, load balancing, or low-latency data flows.

Golang & Serverless Backends:

• Experience writing APIs in Go.
• Bonus if you’ve used serverless frameworks like AWS Lambda or OCI Functions to deploy lightweight backend services.

Minimum Qualifications

• 6-8 years of software engineering experience, focused on C/C

Proven experience with:

• Cross-platform application development
• Performance optimization and memory/resource management
• Building or contributing to scalable systems (ideally cloud-hosted)

Ideal Candidate Traits

• You’re the person other C devs go to when they hit a wall.
• You write clean, efficient code — and you know where performance bottlenecks hide.
• You can pivot from native desktop development to designing cloud architecture when needed.