Principal Backend Engineer - Lead & Mentor for Global APIs

Dubizzle; Karachi Division; On-site; PKR 3,500,000 - 6,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Health Insurance

Rewards & Recognitions

Learning & Development

Job summary

Dubizzle Labs in Pakistan is expanding its office and seeks a senior backend engineer. You will own and advance world-class suite products to support hyper-growth across multiple countries.

You will mentor peers, lead feature planning, and ensure reliability and performance across services, APIs, and infrastructure. Strong emphasis on scalable architecture and code quality, with a collaborative, high-velocity team culture.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional backend software engineering experience.
• Experience with Cloud hosted infrastructure and Technologies; AWS preferred.
• Experience with Kubernetes & Docker.
• Experience with high-traffic and large-scale web products is preferred.
• Strong understanding of design patterns including asynchronous programming, queuing, logging, security and persistence.
• Mastery of testing methodologies (unit tests, component tests, integration tests, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Hit the ground running - Gather up-to-date and in-depth understanding of the codebase and technologies stack.
• Lead planning sessions around new product features, deliver detailed roll-out/roll-back strategies for releases.
• Research and apply industry trends as part of daily work;
• Create unit tests in accordance with established standards.
• Write and maintain exemplary code following programming practices.
• Actively contribute in post-release maintenance issues.
• Develop elegant solutions for complex problems.
• Pioneer reliability and efficiency of current code base, platforms and core systems.
• Mentor and lead team members in peer-programming environments.
• Code review all major pull requests, define programming standards and provide feedback.
• Design and deliver multiple REST based APIs and exposure to SOA.
• Capacity to push back requirements when incomplete.
• Handle the entire software development life cycle, end to end.
• Lead product planning meetings and architect solutions within your stream.

Skills

Python

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Docker

REST APIs

SOA

Distributed systems

Caching (memcached)

Testing methodologies

Code review & mentoring

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Memcached

Job description

Dubizzle Labs in Pakistan is expanding its office and seeks a senior backend engineer. You will own and advance world-class suite products to support hyper-growth across multiple countries.

You will mentor peers, lead feature planning, and ensure reliability and performance across services, APIs, and infrastructure. Strong emphasis on scalable architecture and code quality, with a collaborative, high-velocity team culture.