think-cell - C++ Developer (f/m/d) - Berlin 🇩🇪 or Remote - 130k EUR/year

[HR-think-cell]

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What You'll get

Salary Expectation

• A competitive salary from the start and a raise to EUR 130,000 annually after only one year
• Full Time

Benefits

• An international team of brilliant minds
• A working environment that makes this team stay and grow
• Enough time to make sure that every detail of your solution is perfect
• A flat organization and plenty of room for your ideas
• No scheduled meetings
• Family-friendly working hours, no deadlines, no overtime
• Support for relocation

Location

• Berlin, Germany
• Remote

What You'll do (Job Description)

About this job

We are look­ing for smart, cre­at­ive developers with a solid the­or­et­ical background. Our team of developers con­sists of those with 15+ years of com­mer­cial experience in vari­ous fields, to fresh gradu­ates in Com­puter Sci­ence, Phys­ics, and Math­em­at­ics. A uni­versity degree or work experience with C++, together with a fresh and cre­at­ive prob­lem-solv­ing approach would be an excellent com­bin­a­tion for this role. As all of our recruit­ment steps are task-based, the selection is based on the skills demonstrated during our tests.

You will work largely inde­pend­ently and will be responsible for the whole range of activ­it­ies when implementing a new fea­ture. You should be able to look at a prob­lem from the user's perspective and dis­cuss abstract concepts with fel­low developers. We expect each of our developers to do archi­tec­ture, design, imple­ment­a­tion, cus­tomer feed­back, and bug fix­ing, rather than split­ting these activ­it­ies between sev­eral people. We thus put everyone in control of their own work.

At think-cell, there are no dead­lines and no sched­uled meet­ings. A fea­ture is ready to be released when you are con­vinced that you have imple­men­ted the best pos­sible solu­tion. Meet­ings take place as needed, with only the people who are actu­ally involved being required to be present. At any time in the pro­cess, ideas, sug­ges­tions, and cri­ti­cism from any­body in the hier­archy is wel­come and is ser­i­ously con­sidered. Your ideas are wel­come, even if they mean that we have to change a lot of code to make things better.

We have published sev­eral sci­entific art­icles in the areas of Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence and Com­puter Graph­ics and we will encourage you to do the same. We spon­sor vis­its to con­fer­ences and have close rela­tion­ships with uni­versit­ies and research insti­tutes in the U.S. and Ger­many.

think-cell encour­ages a healthy work-life bal­ance. We do not work at night or on week­ends.

We pay very com­pet­it­ive salar­ies and offer our developers EUR 130,000 annu­ally fol­low­ing one year of employ­ment. If necessary, we will go out of our way to help you relo­cate to Ber­lin and will do what we can to help you acquire a work per­mit. While you should be able to com­mu­nic­ate effectively in English, know­ing Ger­man is not required. Ger­man lan­guage courses can be arranged if desired.

What You Need to Be Successful (Skills)

Must Have

• C++
• Algorithms

Relevant Experiences

In fact, we have several engineers who joined right after graduating from university.

About Our Company

think-cell is a fast-paced software company in Berlin, Germany, with a focus on developing graphics products that stand out from the crowd. More than 1,000,000 users worldwide rely on our software for their daily business as it makes creating graphical presentations so much easier, faster, and more enjoyable. Among our customers are many renowned consulting companies and large international corporations.

We do not have to make compromises with regard to code quality and beauty, because think-cell is highly profitable. We are willing to go the extra mile to develop sophisticated algorithms and refine our user interface, and we are proud of our many happy customers. The fact that the company is owned and managed by seasoned computer scientists certainly contributes to a working environment that makes exceptional developers come and stay.

About our soft­ware

Our focus is on busi­ness slides (as opposed to more art­ful applic­a­tions) because they offer great potential for auto­ma­tion of lay­out tasks that are tra­di­tion­ally per­formed by Power­Point users themselves. Chal­lenges are plenty: from a solid under­stand­ing of what makes a good lay­out and which guidelines are fol­lowed by humans who do manual lay­out, to algorithms that pro­duce an accept­able out­put fast enough for inter­act­ive slide design, to a graph­ical user inter­face that sup­ports our new, ori­ginal approach to slide lay­out in a way that is easy to under­stand yet unob­trus­ive, to solid tech­nical solu­tions for auto­matic bug report­ing and auto­matic updates, to com­pat­ib­il­ity with third-party soft­ware on the com­puters of half a mil­lion users.

Here are some highlights of what we have done.

Lan­guage

• Everything we do is C++. Even our customer portal is written in C++. There is some Assem­bler glue code where it is necessary, and our build scripts are written in Python, but other than that think-cell is all about C++.
• We closely track the latest ver­sions of our com­pilers, Visual C++ and Xcode, so we can always use the latest C++ stand­ard fea­tures as soon as they become avail­able.
• We fund the work­ing group for pro­gram­ming lan­guages of the Ger­man Insti­tute for Stand­ard­iz­a­tion (DIN). Some of our employ­ees are mem­bers of this com­mit­tee and vote in the inter­na­tional stand­ard­iz­a­tion process of ISO/IEC C++.
• We spon­sor the Stand­ard C++ Found­a­tion help­ing them to pro­mote the under­stand­ing and use of mod­ern Stand­ard C++ on all com­pilers and plat­forms.

Lib­rary

• We use Boost throughout our code, e.g., Boost—Spirit for pars­ing.
• We have our own range lib­rary, in the same spirit as Boost. Range or Eric Niebler’s range-v3, but going fur­ther, for example, by uni­fy­ing internal and external iter­a­tion. We gave a talk about it, and most of the code is pub­lic.
• We develop our own cross-plat­form lib­rary to sup­port Mac and Win­dows with a single code base.
• We have our own ref­er­ence-count­ing and per­sist­ence lib­rar­ies to save and restore whole object trees.
• We have an extens­ive bug report­ing infra­struc­ture. Asser­tions and error checks stay in the release code, and our soft­ware auto­mat­ic­ally reports bugs to our server. The server ana­lyzes the bug, cat­egor­izes it, and files it in a data­base that all developers can access. If an update fixes the bug, the user can down­load the update directly from a bug response web page.

Algorithms

• think-cell was foun­ded on the idea for an algorithm for auto­matic slide lay­out, and we are still on an excit­ing jour­ney towards that ambi­tious vis­ion. You can see our most recent release in action!
• We developed a new algorithm for auto­matic point cloud labeling that allows labels to be posi­tioned away from the actual points.
• We developed a new algorithm for auto­matic column chart labeling.
• We are work­ing with John For­rest – author of the lin­ear solver CLP – to make his sim­plex code faster on our kind of prob­lems.
• We developed many gen­eric data struc­tures that are not in C++ or Boost, for example par­ti­tions.
• Our software not only produces charts, it is also able to read them back from paper. For our chart recog­ni­tion tool, we rely on OpenCV and the Lepton­ica Image Pro­cess­ing Lib­rary.

Reverse Engin­eer­ing

• We do lots of reverse engin­eer­ing with the dis­as­sem­bler IDA from Hex-Rays, in order to achieve things that are not pos­sible via the doc­u­men­ted Microsoft Office API.
• We wrote prob­ably the best func­tion hook­ing engine out there. At each start of our soft­ware, we patch the Microsoft Office execut­ables in memory. Rather than hard-cod­ing patch addresses, we search for small chunks of assembly code to be robust against minor changes in the execut­ables.

How to apply

Please apply via this link: Click here to apply

After you apply through the link, our team will reach out to you through e-mail.
If you have any questions, please contact our team via e-mail: hr@think-cell.com

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