Senior C++ Engineers

2 days ago

Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines Manulife/John Hancock Full-time ₱2 - ₱3 Contract

The customer is at the focus of everything we do, and millions of end users rely on our products daily. We believe in the value of empowering engineers with the resources to solve critical problems for the future of the business, which is why we need you. We are seeking self-motivated engineers, who are obsessed with delivering value, are forward-thinking, love to learn from both successes and failures, and are excited to see the successful implementation of the products they deliver while remaining open to change and continuous improvement.

Position Responsibilities: As a Senior C++ Developer, you will:

  • Build best in class software solutions to drive our products, including prototyping, building, and testing new functionality.
  • Maintain and ensuring high quality software, with accountability for production reliability and usage.
  • Designing, coding, unit testing and integrating new features and functionality as defined by the PO and team.
  • Contribute creative problem solving that bring software designs to life.
  • Apply agile principles and methodology within the squad.
  • Contribute the development of automated test harnesses as necessary to ensure delivery of high-quality code.
  • Updating progress daily through the tracking tool (Jira) or Kanban board.
  • Completing any of the documentation required e.g. deployment, maintenance, support and business needs.

You will bring and continuously build upon the following skills:

  • Apply organizational and problem-solving abilities that enable you to manage through creative abrasion.
  • Leverage strong verbal and written communication with the ability to effectively articulate and communicate technical vision, possibilities, and outcomes.
  • Collaborate with product managers, software engineers, and operations engineers to uncover pain points and opportunities to deliver new business value through software.
  • Driving the participation in ideation and brainstorming sessions to devise creative and disruptive digital solutions.
  • We need and value fresh ideas Contribute in various investigative "Spikes" in order to mitigate technical uncertainty and risk.
  • Be part of initiatives to develop and improve standards and methodologies.
  • Working closely with the Product Owner to refine the Product Backlog including providing initial estimates and actively participating with the weekly Look Ahead meetings.

Required Qualifications

  • Core C++ Development 8+ years of professional software development experience using C++.
  • Strong knowledge of modern C++ standards (C++11/14/17/20) and legacy C++ codebases.
  • Expert understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Design Patterns Memory management Multi-threading and concurrency Template programming STL and Boost libraries Experience developing high-performance, scalable, and maintainable applications.
  • COM/COM+ Development Extensive hands‑on experience designing, developing, and maintaining COM and COM+ applications.
  • Strong understanding of: COM architecture and lifecycle COM interfaces (IUnknown, IDispatch) Reference counting and memory management Apartment threading models (STA/MTA) COM registration and deployment Type libraries (TLB) Marshaling and proxy/stub architecture COM+ Services and component configuration Experience troubleshooting complex COM registration, activation, and interoperability issues.
  • Windows Development Deep expertise in Windows application development. Strong knowledge of: Win32 API ATL (Active Template Library) MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes) Windows Services DLL development Registry management Windows Security and User Permissions Experience debugging native Windows applications using Visual Studio and WinDbg.
  • System Integration Experience integrating COM/COM+ components with: .NET applications Web services Database systems Third‑party components Familiarity with COM Interop and migration strategies from COM to .NET technologies.
  • Database & Enterprise Technologies Strong SQL development skills. Experience with Microsoft SQL Server and stored procedures. Understanding of transactional processing and distributed transactions. Experience working with enterprise‑scale client‑server applications.
  • Software Engineering Practices Strong understanding of: Software architecture and design principles SDLC methodologies (Agile/Scrum) Code reviews and mentoring Unit testing and integration testing CI/CD processes Version control systems (Git, Azure DevOps, TFS) Troubleshooting & Performance Optimization Expert‑level debugging and root cause analysis skills. Experience analyzing: Memory leaks Deadlocks Performance bottlenecks Thread synchronization issues COM activation and registration failures Proficiency with diagnostic tools such as: Visual Studio Debugger WinDbg Process Explorer Performance Monitor Debug