C++ Distributed Systems Engineer id-6427

April 11, 2025

Job Description

Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept:

Join our passionate team of top-notch engineers to solve real-world problems, and help people spend less time managing expenses and more time pursuing their real goals. As we revolutionize the way people manage their expenses, being part of the Expensify team means building the easiest, fastest, and most efficient platform to automate everything expense-related.

Our employees work from all over the world, but if you’re looking for a change of scene we offer visa sponsorship and relocation assistance to join us at one of our rad locations:

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Even though we work hard at Expensify, we make sure our employees are happy. Our most talked about perk is our Offshore where we spend a month abroad working from a remote location as a team.

About You

Whether you’re building features like automating customer processes, accounting integrations, real time processing of credit card transactions, or pulling information from receipts, you’re self-driven and collaborative. You’re an autonomous individual who is passionate about writing beautiful and concise code. You love to work in all areas of the code base but come with experience and passion for working with APIs and databases. You’re willing to work with other engineers, designers, and customer-facing teams to turn our dreams into reality.

As a C++ Distributed Systems Engineer, you will:

Maintain and develop Expensify’s Bedrock Infrastructure (bedrockdb)
Work directly with the SQLite team optimizing our customized version of SQLite that powers Bedrock and Expensify at large. This is the largest production SQLite database that we know of
Work with multiple teams, including our Site Reliability Engineers and Engineering team to develop features and ensure platform reliability.
Contribute to full-stack development tasks as needed, which may include writing PHP or JavaScript once your primary C++ projects are completed.

We’re looking for someone who:

Is excited to work on backend systems, with a strong focus on C++ and distributed systems.
Is comfortable working on full-stack problems in PHP and front-end systems written in JavaScript, and React Native.
Has a deep understanding of algorithms, data structures, and protocols used in distributed systems, including replication, fault tolerance, and consensus mechanisms.
Communicates clearly and effectively, both within teams and in code.
Is an analytical problem solver, capable of working with distributed systems that scale across multiple servers.
Can think about the long-term impact of their work and how it contributes to the organization on a larger scale.
Is eager to develop and grow their technical skills in distributed systems engineering and leadership within

We are looking for full stack engineers who have a strong understanding of algorithms and design patterns that can apply those concepts to a production-level codebase. For this role at least three years of backend experience is required. PHP, C++ or Java experience is highly preferred. Some level of Javascript skills are also required given the full-stack nature of this role. React, React Native, iOS or Android skills are a plus. This position is the foundation for launching a career with Expensify, with the expectation that you’ll carry these skills into new domains.

Compensation & Benefits

Full-time, salaried position
401k with employer match
100% Medical/Dental/Mental Health support/Vision contributions
$20k annual family planning benefit through Carrot
Up to three months of fully paid parental leave, with up to six months for birthing parents
Three months of fully paid medical leave
Commuter benefits
Flexible vacation policy
Relocation available

Next Steps

Applying is easy, but it takes time. See, while we know you're awesome, it's actually really hard and time consuming to find you in the midst of literally hundreds of other applications we get from everyone else. So this is where we're going to ask our first favor: can you make it really easy and obvious how great you are, so we don't accidentally overlook you? There are probably many ways to do that, but the easiest way to help us out is by answering the following questions:

What's the URL of your website? If you don't have one, why not?
What's your coding history? When did you start, and what have you done between then and now?
What do you want to do with the rest of your life, and how is Expensify a step toward your long-term goals? (We’re serious, we want to know! Share what you’re comfortable sharing, but we are a group of ambitious individuals building a community of people who want to achieve success in every aspect of our lives, and we encourage employees to figure out how they can use Expensify to realize their personal goals with the support of the company around them.)

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