eReader Senior C++ Developer (12 month contract)

Rakuten Kobo; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the eReader team at a leading company as a Software Developer. You will design, implement, and test new functionalities for top eReader devices while working in an Agile environment. Your expertise in C++ and embedded systems will contribute significantly to enhancing product quality and user experience through collaborative teamwork and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in an Agile development environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Experience developing graphical user interfaces in C++.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement new functionality for Kobo eReader devices.
• Participate in code reviews and provide feedback.
• Collaborate with the team to improve processes and code base.

Skills

Object-oriented design

Code review

Debugging

C++11

GUI development (Qt)

Embedded development

Automated testing

TDD

Shell scripting

EPUB familiarity

Job description

Rakuten Kobo's eReader team is looking for an experienced Software Developer to work on our range of eReader devices. You will be joining a software delivery team of ~15 to work on building and enhancing some of the top eReaders in the market.

Here are some of the things we do and strongly believe in :

• We follow an Agile development process and teams are encouraged to try new things and make suggestions to continuously improve
• We’re dedicated to crafting high quality, peer reviewed code and we’re working on growing our automated test suite
• Every member on the team has a voice and is welcome to contribute to planning and designing
• QA is embedded on our development teams and are involved in projects from day one
• We host regular learning sessions on various engineering topics hosted by members of the team

Responsibilities :

As a member of an Agile development team :

• Design, implement, and test new functionality for Kobo eReader devices
• Propose and carry out refactoring within the codebase to improve design and quality
• Debug and fix defects found by QA and customers
• Review code for other developers on the team
• Estimate the effort for future work as an input to planning
• Collaborate within the eReader team on improvements to our processes and code base.
• Share your knowledge to help grow other members on the team and in turn learn from other members on the team.

Requirements :

• Strong object-oriented design skills, incorporating design principles and patterns
• Strong in identifying and explaining trade-offs and rationale
• Converting final state designs into a sequence of smaller testable incremental steps
• Strong skills in reviewing code and providing feedback (with rationale) to improve code
• Following modern development best practices in C++11 (or newer)
• Experience developing graphical user interfaces in C++ using Qt or a similar library
• Experience with embedded development, preferably on Linux
• 5+ years of experience as a developer in an Agile development environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
• Experience with GCC, ARM toolchains, and shell scripting
• Experience with writing and maintaining automated tests in C++, ideally including :
• Use of dependency injection and mocking frameworks
• Use of test frameworks such as Google Test
• Experience with TDD
• Familiarity with the EPUB format / standard