Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Software Engineer role sits in a SaaS context where product reliability and integration depth matter as much as feature delivery. The emphasis on C++ fundamentals alongside connectivity work (including Java) points to software that must perform well while interfacing with varied customer environments—common in established SaaS portfolios that support enterprise reporting and data workflows.
For a long-term SaaS engineering career, the role offers exposure to the mechanics that underpin repeatable delivery: design ownership, code review standards, automated testing, and CI/CD contributions. Experience working across performance profiling, database access patterns, and authentication/authorization concepts maps cleanly to many SaaS domains—especially those that depend on secure data movement, predictable release cadence, and operational resilience.
This position tends to suit engineers who enjoy balancing low-level rigor with product-facing integration problems, and who prefer development work that includes quality gates and lifecycle accountability rather than isolated coding tasks. It also fits professionals ready to influence delivery practices through mentoring, recruiting participation, and translating customer feedback into technical execution within an Agile setting.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Company Description
Insightsoftware is a growing, dynamic software company that helps businesses achieve greater levels of financial intelligence across their organization with our world-class financial reporting solutions. At Insightsoftware, you will learn and grow in a fast-paced, supportive environment that will take your career to the next level. We are looking for future Insighters who can demonstrate teamwork, results orientation, a growth mindset, disciplined execution, and a winning attitude to join our growing team.
Job Description
We are looking for a Senior C++ Software Engineer for our software development team. Apart from writing high quality code, you will be responsible for key deliverables during your team’s software development lifecycle including software design, code reviews, and comprehensive automated tests. The successful candidate will have a passion for continuous improvement and must have excellent written and verbal communication skills. You will also be writing Java code for connectivity solutions.
Responsibilities –
- Develop maintain and improve software
- Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables
- Contribute improvements to our continuous delivery infrastructure
- Participate in recruiting and mentoring of top engineering talent
- Drive roadmap execution and enhance customer feedback into the product
- Develop, collaborate on, and execute Agile development, product scenarios, in order to release high quality software on a regular cadence
- Proactively assist your team to find and solve development and production software issues through effective collaboration
Desirable -
- Driving Sprint Planning and breakdown of tasks.
- Contributing to performance testing & various continuous improvement efforts.
- Strong OS, Data structure and Algorithms fundamentals
- Strong hold on object-oriented programming concepts and their implementation through C++.
- Must have a know-how on JAVA programming. Should be able write optimized & reusable code.
- Experience developing database technologies extremely valuable
- Experience with low-level C and networking is desired, but not necessary.
- Experience programming database APIs such as ODBC and using database tools strongly preferred
- Experience using BI tools such Tableau, Microsoft Power BI and Lumira desirable but not mandatory.
- Experience using any memory and performance profiling tools is required
- Experience working with Agile methodology i.e Participating in all team activities, including sprint retrospectives, thoughtful code reviews, knowledge sharing sessions, status reporting for project stakeholders, etc
Personal Skills -
- Strong written and verbal communications skills to collaborate developers, testers, product owners, scrum masters, directors, and executives
- Experience taking part in the decision-making process in application code design, solution development, code review
- Strong worth ethic and emotional intelligence including being on time for meetings
- Ability to work in fast-changing environment and embrace change while still following a greater plan
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree with minimum 5 years of related experience or Master’s degree with a minimum 5 years of related experience or Equivalent work experience
- Experience in CI/CD pipeline
- Programming experience including but not limited to C++ technologies
- A good understanding of database concepts (e.g. working with relational data sources such as MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, etc.) and SQL queries
- Experience with such products and tools as Bamboo (Atlassian), Visual Studio Online, Visual Studio, and/or Azure is helpful.
- Ability to lead and mentor others
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Development experience on a range of operating system platforms such as Windows ( mandatory ) , Linux, and OS X desirable.
- Understanding of network interactions:
- Authentication and authorization flows, standards and practices (e.g. oAuth, JWT)
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
** At this time insightsoftware is not able to offer sponsorship to candidates who are not eligible to work in the country where the position is located. **
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