Senior C/C++ Linux DeveloperVDart Inc • Toronto, ON, Canada

Senior C / C++ Linux Developer

VDart Inc • Toronto, ON, Canada

8 days ago

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Job description

Role : Senior C / C++ Linux Developer.

Location : Toronto, ON (Onsite).

Duration : Long Term Contract.

Job Overview

Build and maintain high-performance, low-latency applications powering Risk, Finance, Compliance, and Financial Crime systems at RBC scale. Own technical design through production deployment of mission-critical C / C++ components integrated with enterprise messaging (MQ / Kafka).

Core Technical Ownership

Messaging & Integration

IBM MQ : Queue management, XA transactions, triggered processing
Kafka : Multi-partition consumers, exactly-once semantics, schema registry
Integration : C / C++ clients consuming Java / Scala services

Systems Programming

C / C++ : Memory management, multithreading (pthreads), STL optimization

Linux : Kernel tuning, systemd services, strace / gdb profiling

Performance : Low-latency design (

Vendor Products : Reverse engineering, API extension, debugging

Development Excellence

OOD : SOLID principles, RAII, CRTP, policy-based design

Functional : Lambdas, std : : function, immutable transformations

Testing : GTest, Google Mock, property-based testing

CI / CD : Jenkins pipelines, SonarQube, Docker containerization

Day-to-Day Impact

Production Incident Resolution : Root cause analysis of MQ / Kafka outages affecting millions of transactions

Legacy Modernization : Refactor 20-year-old C codebases while maintaining 99.99% uptime

Performance Engineering : Reduce trading system latency from 150ms 8ms p99

Agile Delivery : 2-week sprints delivering C++ microservices to production

Required Expertise (Must Demonstrate Production)

5+ years C / C++17 systems programming (multithreading, memory pools)

3+ years Linux production (systemd, kernel tuning, perf profiling)

2+ years messaging (IBM MQ queue depth management + Kafka Streams)

Legacy analysis (COBOL / C migration patterns, vendor product extension)

Java / Scala integration (JNI bridges, REST / gRPC interop)

SOLID + functional programming (modern C++ paradigms)

RBC Domains : Risk, Finance, Compliance, Financial Crime, Capital Markets

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