Key Responsibilities:

- Analyze and understand complex legacy C++ codebases to support ongoing refactoring initiatives.
- Refactor existing components to improve maintainability, readability, performance, and code quality.
- Identify and resolve defects, inefficiencies, and architectural issues while preserving existing functionality.
- Collaborate with architects, technical leads, and engineers to define safe and incremental refactoring strategies.
- Conduct code reviews and promote engineering best practices across the team.
- Improve unit testing coverage and support validation of refactored functionality.
- Document technical findings, design decisions, and refactoring approaches for future maintainability.

Your Skills & Experience:

- Strong professional experience developing production applications in C++.
- Experience working with large, legacy, or long-lived enterprise codebases.
- Proven experience performing code refactoring, code modernization, or technical debt reduction initiatives.
- Strong understanding of object-oriented design principles, design patterns, and software engineering best practices.
- Experience debugging complex systems and performing root cause analysis.
- Solid understanding of memory management,



performance optimization, and code quality practices in C++.
- Experience using source control systems such as Git.
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate in distributed teams.

Set Yourself Apart With

- Experience reverse-engineering undocumented or poorly documented systems.
- Experience improving testability and automated test coverage in legacy applications.
- Familiarity with static code analysis, profiling, and performance diagnostic tools.
- Experience working in regulated or mission-critical environments where backward compatibility is required.
- Exposure to AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or similar engineering productivity tools.
- Experience supporting incremental modernization initiatives while maintaining existing architecture constraints.

The Pay Rate for this position is:

- Senior Associate L1 (4+ Yoe) 3,200 a 3700 dolares
- Senior Associate L2 (7+ YoE)4,000 a 5000 dolares

the candidate’s demonstrated experience, English pro ficiency,

Idioma:

- inglés avanzado (Obligatorio)

Lugar de trabajo: Empleo remoto

📌 C++ Engineer (Colombia)
🏢 Taltere
📍 Colombia