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About the Role

Soutron Global is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to be a key technical contributor on MINISIS, a long-standing database and collection-management platform. This role offers a unique opportunity to modernize a critical cultural heritage platform while ensuring the stability of its core components. You will report to the Director of Engineering and act as a senior individual contributor and technical area owner, contributing to the existing C/C++ engine, the new backend and API layer, and the migration of desktop functionality to a modern web application. This role is ideal for someone energized by deep work on complex, mature systems and methodical modernization.

Responsibilities

Provide codebase ownership as a senior developer and technical area owner for the MINISIS C/C++ engine, middleware, and associated components.
Collaborate with the Director of Engineering on architecture decisions.
Maintain the stability of the existing codebase, ensuring full 64-bit capability and production readiness during modernization.
Design and build the new document-oriented backend and REST/GraphQL API layer.
Lead the port of desktop functionality into CAMS Online, architecting a seamless customer migration path.
Work daily with the front-end team on architecture, data models, API contracts, and feature delivery for CAMS Online.
Create robust, well-tested migration tools and processes for customer transitions.
Adopt Soutron's established SDLC, Agile Scrum methodology, and code review practices.
Produce clear architecture, API, and migration path documentation for a historically sparsely documented codebase.

Requirements

6+ years of production C/C++ development on Windows (Win32/Win64, multithreading, memory-mapped files).
Experience contributing to or maintaining custom in-house database or storage engines.
Strong Node.js/TypeScript skills.
Proven experience shipping public-facing REST or GraphQL APIs.
Hands-on experience with document-oriented or NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Couchbase, Elasticsearch, or similar).
Demonstrated success migrating legacy desktop applications to modern web architectures.
Comfort reverse-engineering large, mature, sparsely documented codebases.
Proven experience delivering major platform migrations, including tooling, data migration, and customer transition planning.
Proven experience working within an established Agile Scrum methodology.
Comfortable with sprint planning, standups, story pointing, and sprint reviews.
Experience working within a formal software development lifecycle including code review, branching strategy, CI/CD pipelines, and QA gates.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Comfortable working daily alongside front-end developers and with non-technical stakeholders.
Ability to produce clear technical documentation.

Skills

C/C++ (Windows)
Node.js
TypeScript
REST APIs
GraphQL APIs
Document databases
NoSQL databases
Agile Scrum
SDLC practices
Code review
CI/CD pipelines
Communication
Collaboration
Technical documentation
MongoDB
Couchbase
Elasticsearch
Docker
Kubernetes
Bitbucket
Jira
Confluence

Location

Fully Remote

Work Type

Full-time
Remote-first

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

Competitive salary benchmarked to your market and experience.

Benefits

Flexible hours
Generous paid time off
Public holiday allowance
Budget for learning, conferences, books, and equipment.

About the Company

Soutron builds specialist information, library, and archive management software used by corporate, legal, government, and research organizations globally.
Our platform helps teams curate, discover, and unlock the value of their most important knowledge assets.
We are a small, focused team shipping modern SaaS for a historically under-served sector.
With new investment, we are modernizing the platform, expanding the product, and investing in the engineering team.

Equal Opportunity

Soutron is an equal opportunity employer.
We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of age, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, religion, disability, neurodiversity, caregiving status, or background.
We are happy to accommodate adjustments to our interview process if needed.