Senior C++ Developer / Architect

Solution Street•Herndon, VA

About The Position

At Solution Street, our employees have many opportunities to work on interesting, challenging projects supporting clients one-on-one in various domains primarily in the commercial space. Our company culture thrives on our five core values: Honesty, Respect, Transparency, Dependability, and FUN! They're embedded in everything we do and how we do it! Job Summary We are seeking a highly experienced C++ developer to lead the design and development of high-performance, scalable systems. This role requires deep expertise in modern C++ and a strong understanding of systems-level programming. The ideal candidate will have experience building efficient, multi-threaded applications and optimizing performance for large-scale data processing. They should be comfortable working with low-level data structures, memory management, and performance tuning. This individual will also contribute to system architecture, ensuring solutions are scalable, flexible, and easily integrated into broader platforms and data ecosystems. Experience with cloud-native technologies, containerization, and building infrastructure for high-volume data processing is highly valued. Additionally, the role involves designing robust development workflows, including CI/CD pipelines, and creating reusable libraries or components that support enterprise-level applications. About Solution Street Solution Street, a software engineering firm, was founded by a software developer who envisioned a safe haven for software engineers who wanted to work on interesting, fun projects. Since 2002, we’ve stuck by this principle and as a result, we’ve developed long, lasting relationships with our clients and have a team of great developers who love what they do. We enjoy working with cutting edge technologies and providing solutions to complex business problems. Our employees are experts in building large, highly scalable and well performing web applications using many technologies. We are Microsoft and AWS partners. At Solution Street we value all employees and job candidates as unique individuals, and we welcome the variety of experiences they bring to our organization. As such, we have a strict non-discrimination policy. We believe everyone should be treated equally regardless of race, sex, gender identification, sexual orientation, national origin, native language, religion, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other characteristic protected by law. What's In It for You? Depending on the position and the candidate’s location, not all roles are available for W-2 employment. In some cases, we may consider engagement through a 1099 contractor arrangement. We offer a relaxed, fun, flexible, working environment with competitive salary + bonus + 100% paid health/dental to employee + life insurance + PTO + long-term and short-term disability + 401(k). Solution Street automatically contributes to employees' 401(k) plans. We are passionate about technology and we share our thoughts and discoveries in our monthly newsletters. To subscribe to our latest blog, please visit: https://us10.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=6a3b68411070f7dab1adb3a8b&id=f0193ac93e . Solution Street is also a sponsor of NOVA SART (Northern Virginia Software Architecture Round Table Group). Please visit www.solutionstreet.com or check out our Face page https://www.facebook.com/solutionstreet for more information regarding our company culture, the charities we support, and the fun events we do together!

Requirements

Deep expertise in modern C++
Strong understanding of systems-level programming.
Experience building efficient, multi-threaded applications and optimizing performance for large-scale data processing.
Comfortable working with low-level data structures, memory management, and performance tuning.

Nice To Haves

Experience with cloud-native technologies
Experience with containerization
Experience building infrastructure for high-volume data processing

Responsibilities

Lead the design and development of high-performance, scalable systems.
Contribute to system architecture, ensuring solutions are scalable, flexible, and easily integrated into broader platforms and data ecosystems.
Design robust development workflows, including CI/CD pipelines.
Create reusable libraries or components that support enterprise-level applications.