Software Development Team Leader – Data Path (Hybrid)

Posted:
3/6/2025, 9:28:56 AM

Location(s):
Bucharest, Romania

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm.  Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity.  We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.

Our Partner

Our partner is a fast-growing software company that builds networks like clouds. It offers communications service providers and cloud providers a radical new way to build networks, detaching network growth from network cost and increasing network profitability.

Our partner’s Network Cloud solution uniquely supports the complete virtualization of network and computer resources, enabling communication service providers and cloud providers to meet increasing service demands much more efficiently than with today’s monolithic routers.

Their software runs over standard white-box hardware and can easily scale network capacity by adding additional white boxes into physical network clusters. This unique disaggregated network model enables the physical infrastructure to operate as a shared resource that supports multiple networks and services. This unique network design also allows faster service innovation at the network edge, supporting multiple service payloads, including latency-sensitive ones, over a single physical network edge.

Overall Objective of the Role

We’re looking for a highly technical Software Development Team Leader for Data Path with excellent design/coding/debugging skills and the ability to mentor and guide junior engineers, as well as guide and lead experienced developers. The data-path group provides core components for our products. We design and develop data plane features for a large-scale distributed system. For example, we own features related to forwarding information base, quality of service, security and telemetry.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with all stakeholders (other R&D teams, QA, System Architects and Product Managers) to align technical solutions with business goals.
  • Drive architectural decisions, technical design discussions, and best practices to ensure maintainable and high-quality solutions.
  • Provide estimations for development tasks and project timelines (or review them from the team), balancing effort, complexity and risk to drive efficient execution.
  • Lead and manage the technical team by assigning tasks, setting priorities and ensuring efficient workload distribution to meet project deadlines.
  • Mentor and guide team members, fostering a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning and collaboration.

Requirements

Must Have:

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • Minimum of 2 years of experience as a Team Lead or Tech Lead.
  • At least 5 years of proven experience in software engineering, specializing in distributed systems.
  • Profound knowledge and proven experience in C and modern C++, both in design and development.
  • Experience with multi-threaded programming.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess complex technical challenges, identify root causes, and develop efficient, scalable solutions.
  • Knowledge in networking, particularly in L2/L3 protocols.
  • Prior experience with configuring HW co-processors or ASICs, preferably in networking applications.

Nice to Have:

  • Experience in development in a Linux environment.
  • Experienced in development in Docker containers environment.
  • Experience with Python programming.

Reasons to Work with Us

  • Competitive financial conditions.
  • Opportunity to work on internationally recognized projects.
  • Flexible schedule and a hybrid work model, prioritizing remote work as much as possible to support work-life balance.
  • An exciting career path within a friendly, dynamic, and growing organization.
  • Professional development opportunities in a multicultural environment.
  • Private medical coverage with Medlife or Regina Maria.
  • Meal vouchers.
  • Gift vouchers for special occasions such as birthdays, weddings, or childbirth.
  • Wellbeing programs, including sick days, 7Card subscriptions, and relaxation facilities in the office.
  • Team-building events and other social experiences.
  • Budget allocated for certifications relevant to your project.
  • Workshops, internal training sessions, and knowledge-sharing opportunities.
  • Access to LinkedIn Learning, upon request.
  • Access to Udemy, if required for your project.
  • Convenient city-center office location.
  • Shared parking spaces.

As a global digital transformation company, Orion values creating a productive, diverse work environment. We are committed to maintaining a positive work environment where our people value traits that make each one of us different from one another. We all bring a diverse set of perspectives, work and life experiences, and our differences make us more valuable both internally and for our clients.

 

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