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# Lead Software Development Engineer

- **Company:** EPSoft Technologies
- **Location:** O'Fallon, MO, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, C++ (Programming Language), Perl (Programming Language), Python (Programming Language), Linux System Administration, Pair Programming, Shell Script, Software Engineering, Tcl (Programming Language), Low Latency, Splunk, Dynatrace
- **Published:** July 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/usae68f39bf5baa51c85e6b36adbacae18

## About the Role

Key Skills C and C++ SAFe experience Test-driven development (TDD) Paired programming All About You Do you have a passion for solving complex technical challenges? Do you love learning new technologies and apply it to your team? Have you developed software before preferably in C/C++? Have you spent time in Linux environments? Have you created scripts to automate manual tasks (i.e. shell script, TCL, Perl, Python)? Do you understand throughput, latency, memory and CPU utilization? Do you have experience and prefer working in an Agile environment? Responsibilities Work closely with feature teams to identify risks and anticipate problems to ensure that each release does not negatively impact performance Dig into the code to determine performance bottlenecks and make the improvement Design, configure, automate, and execute performance tests Improve the performance environment with your own code, automation, and onboarding of external tools (i.e. Dynatrace and Splunk) Work collaboratively and



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