Candescent is a forward-thinking technology company transforming how financial institutions deliver Intelligent Banking experiences. We unite digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions that power and connect digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions—creating seamless engagement across digital, remote, and in-person channels.
Our Experience-Led, Intelligence-Driven approach combines human-centered design with data, automation, and cloud-based innovation. Built on an API-first architecture, our extensible ecosystem enables institutions to adapt quickly, integrate easily, and unlock new opportunities for growth—turning every customer interaction into a moment of clarity, confidence, and connection.
SW Software Engineer IV (C/C++)
LOCATION: Hyderabad, India
GRADE: 11
About Candescent
Candescent is a U.S.-based financial technology company that powers Intelligent Banking for banks and credit unions. The company helps financial institutions move beyond traditional digital banking by unifying data, channels, and real-time intelligence into a single, cohesive platform that delivers adaptive, human‑centered experiences across every interaction.
Position Summary
We are seeking a skilled and motivated Software Engineer to join our engineering team. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance, scalable software solutions in a complex enterprise environment. You will be part of a highly skilled and motivated Agile engineering team, contributing to the development of innovative solutions for the financial services market. This is a great opportunity to build your career in a collaborative and supportive environment, with ample opportunities to learn, grow, and benefit from mentorship by experienced professionals.
Responsibilities:
- 7-10 years of experience in developing and maintaining complex products preferably in Banking domain
- Independent contributor to the product development and maintenance.
- Design, develop and enhance features using C/C++ and MFC
- Maintain and improve existing codebase with a focus on performance, reliability and usability.
- Analyse and resolve complex defects including memory leaks, multi-threading and concurrency issues
- Work closely with cross-functional teams and provide technical inputs during planning, estimation and design discussions.
- Support security initiatives
- Ability to work in Agile environment.
Required Skills:
- Excellent programming skills in C,C++.
- Proficient in Win32 API and excellent working knowledge of DLLs and libraries
- Excellent knowledge of data structures and STL libraries
- Solid understanding of windows message loop and event driven architecture is must
- Must have prior working experience in network programming, multithreading in windows environment
- Knowledge of Windows internals
- Good understanding of database
- Able to understand C# and implement features if needed.
- Well versed with debugging and usage of debugging tools
- Knowledge of AI tools such as Cursor is highly desirable
Why Join Candescent
- Work on enterprise‑scale systems with real‑world impact.
- Opportunity to adopt and shape AI‑assisted software engineering practices.
- Competitive compensation with strong work‑life balance programs.
- Inclusive, diverse, and growth‑oriented culture.
Statement to Third Party Agencies
To ALL recruitment agencies: Candescent only accepts resumes from agencies on the preferred supplier list. Please do not forward resumes to our applicant tracking system, Candescent employees, or any Candescent facility. Candescent is not responsible for any fees or charges associated with unsolicited resumes.
Skills Required
- 7-10 years of experience developing and maintaining complex products, preferably in the banking domain
- Excellent programming skills in C and C++
- Experience designing, developing and enhancing features using MFC
- Proficient in Win32 API and working knowledge of DLLs and libraries
- Excellent knowledge of data structures and STL libraries
- Solid understanding of Windows message loop and event-driven architecture
- Prior working experience in network programming and multithreading in Windows
- Knowledge of Windows internals
- Good understanding of databases
- Ability to understand and implement features in C# if needed
- Well versed with debugging and usage of debugging tools
- Knowledge of AI tools such as Cursor
- Ability to work in an Agile environment
Candescent Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Candescent and has not been reviewed or approved by Candescent.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Policies include unlimited vacation for full-time exempt staff, tenure-based accrual for non-exempt, plus floating holidays and sick leave. This breadth of time off suggests flexibility across employment classifications.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — A discount program is cited that provides access to deals at over 250 retailers. This perk adds everyday savings beyond core benefits.
Candescent Insights
What We Do
Candescent brings together the transformative technologies that power and connect account opening, digital banking and branch solutions for banks and credit unions of all sizes. And we’re here to help you extend, differentiate and illuminate your digital-first banking experiences. Our industry-leading products and services, cloud architecture and on-demand developer tools give you the power to differentiate and deliver seamless customer journeys.
