Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. VBeyond Corporation is seeking a Senior C++ Backend Engineer to develop a production-grade Excel execution platform. The role involves building and maintaining backend services for automating Microsoft Excel execution while ensuring high performance and reliability.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain production-grade backend services primarily in C++
- Develop reliable Windows-based services that automate Microsoft Excel execution
- Build and maintain the Excel execution engine to:
- Open workbooks
- Load COM/VSTO add-ins
- Execute calculations
- Capture structured outputs
- Version results back to cloud storage
- Build session-isolated Windows worker processes that preserve desktop Excel behavior required by Office add-ins
- Design scalable worker orchestration including scheduling, retries, concurrency control, and failure recovery
- Validate workbook outputs before publishing results
- Optimize throughput and reliability for large-scale monthly processing workloads
- Collaborate with architects, DevOps, and infrastructure teams on deployment, VM images, scaling, and operational excellence
- Troubleshoot performance, reliability, and interoperability issues across modern and legacy Windows environments
Skills
- 6–16 years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong production experience in C++ backend development
- Strong understanding of: Backend services, APIs, Concurrency, Multithreading, Performance optimization, Debugging
- Experience building reliable enterprise production systems
- Strong Windows development experience
- Experience or willingness to work with: Microsoft Excel automation, COM Automation, VSTO / Office Interop, Windows desktop automation
- Experience with distributed processing, queues, retry mechanisms, and resilient service architecture
- Experience deploying applications on Microsoft Azure
- Python development experience
- VBA macro understanding
- VSTO / .NET Office Interop
- Experience with financial services Excel add-ins such as: Capital IQ, Bloomberg, FactSet, MSCI
- RPA tools (UiPath, Power Automate)
- OpenTelemetry
- Terraform
- Containerization
- CI/CD pipelines
- Financial services or asset management domain experience
- Experience working in regulated or audited environments
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