Lead Software Developer (C++)

About Symless

Symless's mission is to help people use multiple computers together in one seamless and cohesive experience. Since 2012, Symless has proudly developed Synergy, an app that shares one mouse, one keyboard, and one clipboard between multiple computers.

Position

About Symless and Synergy:

Our mission is to help people use multiple computers together in one seamless and cohesive experience. Since 2012, Symless has proudly developed Synergy, an app that shares one mouse, one keyboard, and one clipboard between multiple computers. As well as having over 2 million users worldwide, our product is regularly featured on top tech channels like Linus Tech Tips, a channel with over 10.4 million viewers. It's also used at some pretty neat companies like Apple, Pixar, Disney, Google, Amazon, and many more. That said, we're actually a very small company of 20 people, so you won't get lost in the crowd.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead team of C++ developers
• Get results from objectives and goals
• Act as a role model to inspire and motivate team members
• Build trust and strong communication
• Delegate effectively to team members and help them overcome obstacles
• Maintain low-level system components
• Contribute to our open-source projects
• Share your ideas with the whole team
• Try out new technologies and innovate
• Code using test-driven-development
• Testing your own code thoroughly
• Ensure that your team engages with users
• Delegate escalated support tickets to the team

Your qualification

We'll need you to have:

• Experience leading a team of engineers
• Excellent English communication skills
• Professional development experience:
• C++
• Win32, Carbon, and/or Xlib (all 3 would be awesome, but not required)
• Maintenance and improvement of a complex codebase
• Memory management
• Low-latency networking
• Development experience on at least two of these OS:
• Windows
• MacOS
• Linux

It would also be nice if you had experience with:

• Qt
• Boost
• Wayland
• Objective-C
• Cocoa
• Linux servers (we host our apps on Linux)
• Test-driven-development, unit testing, integration testing

Will be a plus

• Remote/distributed (EU time zone) or on-site in UK (paid relocation)