Frontend Architect for C++

**Who We Are**

Cisco Webex is the World's #1 business collaboration and customer engagement platform. It is used across all industries in the world being used to support governments, business, education, and more including use by 85% of Fortune 500 business. Cisco is the clear market leader in cognitive collaboration for unified communication and contact centers with People Insights, Webex Assistant, Webex Experience Management and now BabbleLabs noise cancelation. These technologies are being integrated into Webex calling, meetings, messaging, team collaboration and contact center.

**Who You’ll Work With**

As a Frontend Architect at Webex, you will help us scale for our continued growth as a game-changing, industry-defining company shaping the future of work. You will be working to keep our software technology aligned with the business’s strategic vision and will work across multiple engineering teams to ensure the development of maintainable and scalable products.

You will work directly with Principal Engineers and Product Managers owning the full-cycle of technical solutions across all Webex products to build a robust unified technical vision and toolset. You will work with a 15+ members engineering team to find, analyze, anticipate future technical challenges with their projects or products. You will build engineering research groups and facilitate work in them to collaboratively design solutions to those challenges. You will work in an entirely distributed company and help define an entirely new space while learning about how an organization scales on a hyper-growth trajectory.

**What You'll Do**
- Lead the research and architecture on specific topics, experiment with various technologies, and provide recommendations based on your findings.
- Lead implementation of technical and infrastructure initiatives to support architecture decisions.
- Detail out and refine higher-level architecture decisions into a lower-level design.
- Consult the engineering team with ongoing projects. Help them align solutions with the Webex architecture vision and industry best practices.
- Review work of team to ensure that the architecture decisions are being executed and the team is following coding standards and architecture guidelines.
- Build and lead research groups of senior and junior engineers to define and decide development technology and platform, define development standards, tools, processes, etc.
- Ensure technical knowledge sharing between development teams on related or similar projects.
- Proactively identify technical debt and product areas that require attention or improvement at the architecture level.
- Constantly develop yourself and the team in technology advancements, research new approaches, tools and best practices in the software architecture and design space.
- Suggest improvements to our technology stack to optimize it for strategic growth and the competitive advantage of Webex.

**Who You Are**
- 10+ years of demonstrated ability in C++, and frontend concepts
- Solid OOPS concepts and ability to represent high-level architecture as well a implementation design using sequence diagrams, etc.
- Experience in designing C++ frameworks that are extensible
- Exposure to native frontend development using shared C++ a huge plus
- Exposure to designing frameworks for third-party integrations a huge plus
- Exposure to various Auth scenarios
- Exposure to designing SDKs a huge plus
- Knowledge of releasing monthly builds of clients and SDK products via automated pipelines like Jenkins
- Expert in Git-based repository management
- Deep knowledge of advanced data structures and design patterns a must
- Expert in building automated test cases and ensure maximum code coverage
- Expert in performance testing and optimization for space, memory, and speed
- Native and popular 3rd party SDK usage and feature familiarity
- Experience in distributing, code-signing, evaluating and supporting apps on test flight or similar platforms

**Why Cisco?**

WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone. How do we do it? Well, for starters - with people like you

Nearly every internet connection around the world touches Cisco. We’re the Internet’s optimists. Our technology makes sure the data traveling at light speed across connections does so securely, yet it’s not what we make but what we make happen which marks us out. We’re helping those who work in the health service to connect with patients and each other; schools, colleges, and universities to teach in even the most challenging of times. We’re helping businesses of all shapes and sizes to connect with their employees and customers in new ways, providing people with access to the digital skills they need and connecting the most remote parts of the world - whether through 5G, or otherwise.

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