Senior Software Engineer

Job Description
Turnitin is looking to grow our engineering team responsible for developing and supporting our desktop application used to deliver a software-based assessment experience to students worldwide. We are seeking C++ developers eager to solve challenging problems while maintaining quality, performance, and security. In this role, you’ll be working on various aspects of our codebase with support from top-notch colleagues. Our work requires a strong understanding of algorithms, experience with desktop application development, and working with multiple languages and technology stacks, primarily C++ and JavaScript.
We use Kanban, an agile process, for our day-to-day work and project management. Our team is distributed across multiple time zones (US to UK), collaborates closely with our DevOps organization, and takes pride in the software we release. Unit and integration tests are essential, and code ownership means we are the team on call if issues arise. You’ll be working with people who love their jobs, relish challenges, and, most importantly, enjoy working together. You will gain experience working at a leading company using the latest technologies and have a direct impact on our users worldwide.
Responsibilities:
Hands-on position which requires 90-95% of writing code.
Add new features to and maintain existing code.
Design and build new services that add customer value
Improve stability and monitoring of existing workflows
Work with services running in concert at large scale
Provide guidance in technical design and development activities.
Ensure future success and stability through code reviews and automated testing.
Work closely with software architects and database/operations engineers on system infrastructure and design.