Title:

C Software Engineers x 4

Location:

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, East Anglia

Salary:

GBP 35,000 per year (to GBP 35,000 (neg))

Description:

Our client are a 'listed' IT firm, and a real Cambridge 'Silicon Fen' success story, renowned for innovation and theproduction of systems that simplify complex technology for business. Considering their size (>250), they have one of thelargest product suites in the industry and therefore a wealth of opportunity for Engineers eager to accelerate theirskill-set and drive their career forward.These demanding, challenging roles have arisen as a consequence of further expansion, and require a creative, innovativemindset.What we are looking for is C (POSIX ideally) Software Developers with strong 'Systems Development' skills who areinterested low-level network server architectures, socket programming and multi-threading and distributed systems. Thisrole will stretch you to the extreme, and involve significant 'clean-sheet' design work as well as large product suiteintegration. Please do not apply if you have less than 2 years of REAL C experience in a Cross-Platform (and Ideallylow-level environment)Please note that we are not looking for Embedded or RTOS (Real Time OS) Engineers.Nice to have:Strong academic qualifications (Ideally degree from a top uni)Multi-threadingHP-UX, Solaris, LINUX (Ideally Debian, Redhat or Suse), AIXWindows (2000, XP)Creative problem solving skillsSocket ProgrammingTCP/IPHTTPServer ProgrammingGUI skillsRe-factoring or Reverse EngineeringSemaphoreThis environment is about as X-platform as it gets (11 supported platforms!) so you will develop unsurpassed systemsexposure whilst developing your C skills. 4 Roles available to be filled by May 2005. The roles are paying up to GBP 35K(more for the right person) and located in the technology epicentre that is Cambridgeshire, which is commutable fromLondon, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Peterborough, Ipswich, Huntingdon, Ely, Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes etcPlease do not hesitate in getting your details over to Idealpeople contact Michael Wright for immediate consideration.Buzzwords: Software Developer, Software Engineer, PHD, Analyst Programmer, Low Level, Graduate Software Engineer, POSIX C