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What we’re looking for

Golden Software is seeking a senior C++ software developer who can build high-quality desktop product features, work effectively in a mature Windows codebase, and help improve Surfer’s customer-facing workflows, performance, and extensibility.

This person should be a strong product-minded engineer: senior enough to make good architecture decisions, pragmatic enough to work safely in mature code, and collaborative enough to partner with Product Managers and other developers on cross-codebase work.

Skills & Responsibilities:

You have the skills to excel in this role if you:

• Have 8+ years of professional software development experience, including senior-level work building commercial or production-grade C++ software.

• Have experience with Windows desktop application development.

• Can work effectively in large, mature, deeply layered codebases.

• Bring strong debugging, root-cause analysis, architecture, and implementation skills.

• Have demonstrated experience designing or implementing extensible, interoperable libraries, APIs, and scripting/automation hooks.

• Communicate clearly and constructively in a remote development environment.

• Collaborate comfortably across product management, engineering, and shared code boundaries.

• Care deeply about software quality, maintainability, scalability, and direct customer impact.

Tools & experience:

• Fluency in modern C++ (our codebase uses C++20) on Windows.

• Visual Studio, Git, Bitbucket, Jira, Slack, or comparable development and code review tooling.

• Familiarity with MFC, ATL, Windows API, .NET, or WPF is helpful, but not required.

• 3D, geospatial visualization, and real-time rendering experience is a plus (e.g., OpenGL or comparable graphics APIs, shaders, geometry, or rendering performance).

• Domain experience in GIS, mapping, gridding, contouring, or scientific visualization is a plus.

• Familiarity with AI-assisted developer workflows or integration protocols is a plus.

Great candidates don’t always check every box. Equivalent skills and experience may be considered in place of specific requirements.

As a senior developer, you will help build and improve product functionality that enables customers to complete complex scientific visualization and analysis workflows more efficiently.

You will succeed in this role by:

• Delivering high-quality, maintainable full-stack C++ features across backend engines and user interfaces.

• Reducing friction in priority customer workflows to improve retention and time to value.

• Improving performance and scalability for workflows handling large datasets.

• Expanding Surfer’s customer-facing automation, scripting, and system extensibility.

• Collaborating with Product Managers during discovery to assess feasibility, effort, risk, and technical trade-offs.

• Working across shared components and subsystems when feature work crosses codebase boundaries.

• Participating actively in peer code reviews, architecture discussions, sprint planning, and technical debt reduction.

The salary range for this role is $150,000 – $210,000, depending on experience, skills, and qualifications. We are committed to providing a competitive compensation package that reflects the value this role brings to the business.

This is a full-time, remote position, with optional team events held in the Golden, CO area several times per year. Travel for in-person team and company meetings is required 1–4 times per year.

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We’re a small team, and a real human reviews every application. Following the instructions below helps us ensure we don’t miss yours.

To apply, please send your resume to jobs@goldensoftware.com with the subject line “I’m your Senior Developer guru!” and include

1. Two things about this position that excite you, and

2. How your experience and skills align with the job requirements.