Senior Software Engineer (C++)

Blitz is a quickly growing and self-sustaining start-up that provides gamers with personalized stats and insights powered by billions of matches. High performance is at the core of our values. We are a team of gamers and entrepreneurial technologists with big ambitions. At Blitz, you will find co-workers who are friendly, eager to collaborate, and work creatively to ship market-defining software. If you thrive in an environment optimized for autonomy, innovation, teamwork, and embody our principles, Blitz is the place for you to make an outsized impact.

Overview

Join Blitz at a pivotal moment as we pioneer advanced computer vision solutions for the gaming industry. Blitz is at the forefront of offering real-time game insights, overlays, and coaching to millions of users worldwide. As a C++ Engineer on the Computer Vision team, you’ll play a key role in shaping the future of our platform, creating scalable, high-performance systems that support our rapidly expanding user base.

Role Description

As a C++ Engineer on the Computer Vision team, you’ll play a key role in shaping the future of our platform, creating scalable, high-performance systems that support our rapidly expanding user base.

Experience we look for: Modern C++, C++ 17, IPC, Windows API, model inference on GPU, CUDA

Your Responsibilities Include

• Design, develop, and optimize performance-critical systems in C++ for our computer vision projects, ensuring modularity and scalability.
• Ensure code quality by writing and maintaining unit tests using libraries
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to contribute to large-scale modular projects, ensuring efficient integration of new features and improvements.

Qualifications

• A Master's degree in Computer Science or related and 3+ or Bachelor’s and 5+ years of work experience in developing production grade C++ codebase.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and system design.
• Experience with interprocess communication (IPC) is preferred.
• Experience with Windows API for managing processes, threads, and I/O operations, and working with system-level resources is required.
• Experience with writing clean, modular and testable code using modern C++ (C++17+), incorporating smart pointers, templates, and other advanced C++ features.
• Experience with deploying/optimizing AI models on GPU would be a major plus.
• Experience with unit testing libraries such as gtest or catch2.
• Proven experience working with modular projects in a team setting.
• Familiarity with concepts of computer vision and image processing is a plus.
• Gaming experience is a massive plus.

Behavioral traits

• Desire for impact: ready to take on a responsibility and collaborate with your team.
• You’re an owner: driven, focused, and quick to take ownership of your work
• Humble: you seek out feedback and appreciate your colleagues.
• Growth-minded: you’re eager to expand your skill set and excited to demonstrate it with your work.

Compensation:

Salary range of 25 - 50 LPA (actual compensation will be determined based on experience, performance, and other factors permitted by law).

What We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Annual performance bonus
• Unlimited vacation policy
• 100% covered medical, dental, and vision plan

Salary for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education.

Blitz is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and the use of affirmative action programs to ensure that persons are recruited, hired, trained, transferred and promoted in all job groups regardless of race, color, religion, age, disability, national origin, citizenship status, military or veteran status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state or local law.