About SD Worx

About the role:

Are you a C++ developer who gets genuinely excited when someone mentions stuff like “Btrieve” in 2025?

Then we're inviting you to strengthen our eBlox payroll team - the powerhouse behind Belgium's most popular payroll solution for mid-to-large organizations.

eBlox is a user-facing application, used by payroll professionals to manage their payroll processes.

We process over 500,000 payslips monthly, which means your code directly impacts half a million Belgian workers getting paid correctly and on time. No pressure! 😉

What do we have to offer?

• Stable employment conditions: permanent employment contract (after a 3-month probation period)
  

• Flexible working hours and remote work opportunities

• Private medical care (LuxMed)

• Cafeteria system / Sports card

• Lunch card (Edenred)

• Financial allowance for remote work

• Loans for employees

• Workation: possibility to work from any SD Worx location (4 weeks per year, EU only)

• Life insurance

• Holiday allowance

• Free language courses (during your working hours)

• Annual bonus

• Integration events

• Free parking spaces for employees

• Referral program

• PPK (Employee Capital Plans): 3.5% employer contribution

• Learning opportunities: through an individual development plan and professional training

• Career growth: whether you want to become more of an expert in your field or expand your knowledge horizontally, there’s always room to grow within SD Worx!

Which tasks can you expect?

• Enhance, maintain and refactor our legendary C++ system: Work with a mature, battle-tested codebase that's been processing millions of payslips reliably for years

• Master our specialized technologies: You'll work with our optimized Btrieve databases and proven MFC interfaces that deliver durable performance for high-volume payroll processing

• Contribute across the full product lifecycle: From brilliant ideas to production deployment and ongoing optimizations

• Bridge business and tech: Work with our business experts to translate complex Belgian payroll requirements into elegant technical solutions

• Troubleshoot like a detective: Debug code that spans decades of development decisions (no direct customer contact required)

While our performance-optimized backend continues delivering rock-solid reliability, we're steadily modernizing our solution. We've already virtualized the GUI layer, giving users sleek web interfaces.

Now we're actively refactoring the backend - this is where you come in to help us modernize the core while preserving everything that makes it so dependable.

Essential Experience

• 2-3 years of C++ development in complex software environments

• Knowledge of libraries and frameworks such as STL, Boost, MFC

• Experience with document and relational databases like Btrieve and MS SQL

• Degree in IT or equivalent battle scars from the software trenches

Bonus Points

• If you've survived legacy modernization projects

• Familiarity with TDD, CI/CD (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, etc.) and Windows profiling tools like VTune

• Visual Studio mastery - Our primary IDE

• Python scripting - Automation is your friend

• Payroll domain knowledge - Understanding why Belgian tax calculations are... Special

We want someone with a "Can Do!" attitude who can

• Self-educate and adapt: Our codebase will teach you things they don't cover in university

• Work autonomously: You'll own your problems and solutions

• Communicate clearly: You'll be our beacon of trust in a complex and technical domain and explain technical decisions and report on progress to your team mates, your product owner and yes, also management

• Collaborate internationally: Our team spans Belgium (Antwerp) and Poland (Katowice), English is our lingua franca

• Embrace the agile mindset: Continuous learning, transparent feedback, and value delivery