Career Software Developer - C

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About the job

The SAS Decisioning Runtime R&D team is looking for a Software Developer specializing in C to join our team of talented engineers.  You will work collaboratively with your development peers and other stakeholders to craft world-class cutting-edge products and solutions that enable SAS customers to deploy analytics and make decisions in a high-performing, lean, and scalable manner.  You will contribute to products spanning a diverse set of technologies and industries targeted at both cloud and on-premise deployments.

As a Decisions Runtime C Developer, you will:

• Design and develop high quality, testable, and scalable computational algorithms primarily based in C
• Research and implement key initiatives independently when appropriate with added ability to provide guidance to the larger team
• Actively involve other project stakeholders (e.g., managers, developers, product managers) to ensure implementation satisfies both functional and non-functional requirements and is consistent with established R&D standards
• Participate in project scoping and scheduling; track progress of individual tasks and alerts stakeholders of issues blocking or preventing completion of task
• Guide and support the activities of junior developers through mentorship and pair programming.
• Ensure the caliber of the code you create thorough a quality focused mindset, including code reviews to safeguard integrity and cross-product consistency, developing automated tests at the appropriate level (functional, unit, integration, system, and performance), and collaborating closely with quality engineers to define and review test plans as well as communicate when updates to the plan should be made to cover code changes related to enhancements, redesigns, and bug fixes
• Analyze and optimize product performance
• In collaboration with technical writers, author appropriate level of design and technical documentation that satisfies both internal and external consumers.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related quantitative field
• Advanced C or C++ programming skills, with a minimum of 5 years C programming experience
• Experience in analysis, design, and implementation of high performance, multi-threaded, event-driven computing systems
• Experience with performance analysis, bottleneck isolation and elimination
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication, organization, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage time across multiple projects; proven track record of delivering complex projects on schedule.
• An equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.

Preferred qualifications

• Working knowledge of Rust
• Working experience with source control management techniques (Git) including branching, code review, and merging
• Working knowledge of one or more of: DS2, SAS Language, Python, R, JNI, ODBC

World-class benefits    

Highlights include...
• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
• Medical plan options include…
• PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
• HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
• Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There’s a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!
• An industry-leading 401k plan.
• Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
• Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
• Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees

To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights. Also view the Pay Transparency notice.

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