Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems (C / Assembler)

About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will make an impact by supporting and enhancing a high-performance distributed message routing, translation, reconciliation, and transaction processing platform that powers critical business applications. You will be a valued member of the engineering team and work collaboratively with software engineers, architects, DevOps teams, operations teams, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, reliable, and performant solutions. This role is ideal for an experienced engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems, optimizing large-scale distributed systems, and contributing to mission-critical platforms operating in a 24x7 environment. The role provides opportunities to apply systems programming expertise while collaborating with senior technical leaders and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and enhance high-throughput distributed applications running on Linux using C, Assembler, Prolog, and related technologies.
• Support a mission-critical real-time transaction processing platform operating in a 24x7 production environment.
• Perform performance analysis, troubleshooting, debugging, and optimization of single-node, multi-node, and cloud-based systems.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and engineering automation solutions.
• Participate in software design discussions and contribute to scalable, maintainable, and high-performing technical solutions.
• Develop tools and infrastructure to test, monitor, and improve large-scale distributed systems.
• Leverage production and test data to identify opportunities for performance improvements and system optimization.
• Conduct code reviews and follow engineering best practices to ensure software quality, security, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with product, QA, infrastructure, and operations teams to deliver solutions that meet business and customer requirements.
• Support incident analysis, root cause investigations, and implementation of corrective actions to improve system stability and reliability.
• Contribute to technical documentation, operational runbooks, and knowledge-sharing activities.
• Mentor junior team members and support a collaborative engineering culture.

Requirements

• 5-8 years of software engineering experience with expertise in systems-level development.
• Hands-on experience developing software using C, Assembler, Prolog, or other low-level programming languages.
• Experience supporting high-performance distributed systems and real-time transaction processing applications.
• Strong experience with Linux-based development and production environments.
• Experience performing application performance analysis, debugging, tuning, and optimization.
• Knowledge of algorithms, computer architecture, data structures, and system performance concepts.
• Experience designing