Senior C Engineer — Open Source Contributor (Remote)

YO IT Consulting; Dubai; On-site; AED 201,000 - 391,000; Full time

Job summary

YO IT Consulting seeks an experienced C Engineer for Open Source Development in Dubai, UAE. This remote contractor role focuses on production-quality C code, reviews, and documentation across open-source repositories.

The ideal candidate brings strong C skills, multi-language familiarity (Python/Java/Go/TS/Rust), and experience with large-scale codebases, testing, and robust peer review. This contract offers remote work with visibility in community-driven projects.

Qualifications

• Proficient in C and open-source development practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop production-quality C code for approved open-source projects.
• Design and implement algorithms, libraries, services, and system components.
• Contribute in Python, Java, Go, TypeScript, or Rust when project requirements call for additional languages.
• Study large existing codebases and understand dependencies before introducing changes.
• Diagnose complex defects and determine their underlying technical causes.
• Resolve reliability problems, memory issues, concurrency defects, and performance bottlenecks.
• Refactor legacy components to improve readability, modularity, and long-term maintenance.
• Prepare unit tests, integration tests, and regression checks for submitted changes.
• Review peer contributions for correctness, security, efficiency, and adherence to coding standards.
• Provide clear and constructive feedback during pull-request and design discussions.
• Respond to reviewer comments and revise contributions until acceptance requirements are met.
• Maintain technical documentation covering architecture, setup, usage, and implementation decisions.
• Improve onboarding guidance and knowledge-sharing material for future contributors.
• Collaborate with maintainers, engineers, and project stakeholders on priorities and delivery expectations.
• Follow repository conventions, contribution guidelines, licensing requirements, and version-control practices.
• Record technical trade-offs and explain why selected solutions meet project goals.
• Support continuous improvement of engineering and code-review practices.

Skills

Modern C

Open-source contribution

Algorithms & data structures

Systems programming

Distributed codebases

Performance optimization

Memory management

Concurrency debugging

Code review

Unit & integration testing

Git version control

Python

Java

Go

TypeScript

Rust

Tools

Git

Job description

YO IT Consulting seeks an experienced C Engineer for Open Source Development in Dubai, UAE. This remote contractor role focuses on production-quality C code, reviews, and documentation across open-source repositories.

The ideal candidate brings strong C skills, multi-language familiarity (Python/Java/Go/TS/Rust), and experience with large-scale codebases, testing, and robust peer review. This contract offers remote work with visibility in community-driven projects.