Engineering Manager: Build & Scale High-Traffic Cloud Apps

Dubizzle; Karachi Division; On-site; PKR 4,000,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Dubizzle Labs is expanding its Pakistan engineering office in Karachi, building world-class products for rapid growth across multiple countries. The Engineering Manager will lead a technical team, design scalable cloud software, and drive modern practices to deliver value to customers at scale.

You will own non-functional requirements, guide architecture and code quality, mentor engineers, and hire top talent to raise the bar of performance and security across our platforms.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of server/client-side software development experience.
• Minimum of 3+ years in a Management Role.
• Experience leading teams; including performance management and people management.
• In-depth understanding of free and open-source software development, e.g. Python, Java, JavaScript, Objective C and etc;
• Strong understanding of scalability and high availability systems.
• Experience in operations and managing live production applications, monitoring, remediation and incident management.
• Strong understanding of RESTful service design, API design and best practices for building resilient and maintainable distributed systems.
• A solid experience with AWS and the different technologies within, is a plus.
• Working experience of Kubernetes is a plus;
• Experience working on high-traffic and large-scale web products.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and develop cloud software applications.
• Collaborating closely with Product, Infrastructure, Design, UX, CLM and Strategy to deliver highest quality products.
• Enforce agile practices like test driven development, CI & test automation.
• Collaborate with offshore teams for both architectural and delivery issues.
• Cultivate technical backlog.
• Smartly prioritise between the immediate and the future needs.
• Analyse and remediate production issues, build in fault tolerance and operational readiness into the system architecture with a focus on operationally ready solutions.
• Be a software guardian. Own non-functional requirements, architectural direction, quality of the code and addressing technical debt.
• Knowledgeable of scalability and high availability systems.
• Focusing on Team health and instilling a strong culture of engineering excellence.
• Mentor team on good code design patterns.
• Hiring A-players to build High Performing Teams, constantly raising the bar of engineering talent.
• Identify areas for growth and personal development and provide a growth path uniquely catered towards each team member.
• Ability to lead the team technically and act as a Project and Product manager.
• Ensuring the highest standards of security for all our platforms and its underlying infrastructure.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud architecture

API design

Distributed systems

Security best practices

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Dubizzle Labs is expanding its Pakistan engineering office in Karachi, building world-class products for rapid growth across multiple countries. The Engineering Manager will lead a technical team, design scalable cloud software, and drive modern practices to deliver value to customers at scale.

You will own non-functional requirements, guide architecture and code quality, mentor engineers, and hire top talent to raise the bar of performance and security across our platforms.