Senior Software Engineer

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As a Senior Software Engineer, you will engineer the Agent portion of our technology stack, ensuring code operates across diverse customer environments.

ActivTrak is a comprehensive cloud-based analytics service that allows businesses to gain insights on and improve employee productivity. The ActivTrak platform provides valuable aggregate data on a company's day-by-day performance, with information displayed on easy-to-manage dashboards.

As a Senior Software Engineer on our Ingestion team, you will be primarily responsible for engineering the Agent portion of our technology stack, where strong low level Windows and Mac skills are necessary. You must be able to write code that can operate in a myriad of customer environments (OS versions, browsers, networking) and diagnose/troubleshoot problems that are a result of functioning in a complex computing ecosystem.

In addition to agent development, you will have the opportunity to work across our technology stack as needed, including browser extension development and backend development across multiple layers of our Cloud-Native SaaS application, leveraging modern SaaS design and .NET Core development as we disrupt the productivity analytics industry.

Requirements

Required Skills and Experience:

  • 5+ years of experience in software development
  • Experience with the latest C++ language standards; i.e. C++23/26
  • Mac OS X systems skills
  • Windows Win32 library and Windows service development
  • Interprocess communication
  • Multi-thread synchronization
  • Browser extensions and native messaging
  • Cross Platform C++ Development
  • Modern CMake
  • Windows Installer

Nice to Haves:

  • MacOS Transparency, Consent, and Control framework
  • GIT/GitHub/GitHub Actions
  • Comprehensive C# knowledge (e.g., Reflection, Lambda, LINQ, Multithreading)
  • Experience in cloud environments (e.g. GCP, AWS )
  • Data Modeling design
  • API design/implementation (e.g., Microservices, REST, etc.)
  • Serialization (e.g. JSON, XML)
  • Strong SQL experience
  • Docker/Containers, Kubernetes
  • .NET core
  • Shell scripting
  • HTML/XHTML, CSS
  • Javascript and jQuery
  • Knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle and software development best practices
  • Experience with RMM/MDM deployments

Benefits

Work environment

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Position is remote within US
  • Minimal travel
  • Limited physical demands 

This is an incredible opportunity to embark on an exciting journey with a dynamic, VC-backed company.  If you have a proven track record of creative thinking, a drive for learning, and a deep commitment to collaboration, we want to talk to you! 

ActivTrak is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. ActivTrak does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, age, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

ActivTrak is a product-led, innovative software company that introduced it’s award-winning workforce analytics platform in 2015. Our cloud-based platform provides productivity insights into how teams work, improving employee and customer experience, while also enabling better business outcomes. At ActivTrak, we recognize the powerful link between these two concepts and we're on a mission to understand it more every day.We are a fast-growing, agile company with a forward-thinking, inclusive culture. Our teams are encouraged to collaborate daily to solve challenges, create and champion new ideas, and execute initiatives that help global customers and their modern workforces succeed by working better together. People are the backbone of ActivTrak. It’s important that we take care of ourselves and make an effort to get to know one another. We have team members located across the United States (and soon, the entire globe) so we must be intentional about how we work with one another. This is an incredible opportunity to embark on an exciting journey with an early-stage, dynamic VC-backed company. If you have a positive attitude towards urgency, risk, and challenges that comes with working in a startup environment, then you will be a great fit!

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