Senior C Developer - Linux

We require a Senior C Developer (Linux) to join and lead a high caliber team designing and developing a very complex, high-performance, large and fully scalable server system, and bring it to the next generation architecture. This is a full-time position based in Riga, Latvia.

Skills Required / Candidate Profile

•Exceptional programmer and system designer in complex, high performance and scalable server systems.

•Good algorithmic and implementation skills.

•4+ years of C under Linux (Unix) and 5+ years of working experience.

•Experience with project management and formalized development processes

•Experience in managing a team of developers as their technical leader

•Understands the need to follow procedures and is able to create functional and system specifications

•Good communicational skills and the ability to motivate other members of the team

•Spoken and written English

•Experience with Client/Server architectures, server farms and scalable design.

•c sockets (all flavors), asynchronous and synchronous I/O, poll/epoll

•IPC

•Threading, thread synchronization

•Experience with the ODBC API is a plus

•Awareness of the security implications of writing servers.

•Ability to debug, profile and optimize code.

•In-depth knowledge of HTTP and other Internet related protocols is a plus

•The ideal candidate would have extensive experience with video/audio encoding, various video/audio formats, streaming, ffmpeg software package.

Top Reasons to Work at ISS

•Challenging, exciting, ‘world first’ projects

•A young multi-national English-based team

•Office located in the very center of Riga, walking distance to most of the popular restaurants, pubs, cafés and night clubs – 100s of them.

•Work environment according to International standards (currently setting up on-site recreational facilities – gym, entertainment area and cafeteria)

•Care and dedication from the management team and your colleagues – we’re all striving to achieve the common good

•Aid in the relocation process, for you and your close family, if needed

•Salary – to attract the very best, additional benefits

Available Project Areas

We have openings in the following major project areas:

•Video Redistribution Server – developing on the foundation of the existing VRS, implementing new video/audio formats and various flavors of streaming.

•Chat Server – improving the existing chat servers; modify the architecture to aid scaling independent of product specs.

•Business Logic Layer – implementing a scalable business logic layer that sits between the application and the database, helping alleviate the database load and aiding scalability.