Principal Software Engineer - Backend

Bayut; Karachi Division; Presencial; PKR 4.500.000 - 7.500.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Comprehensive Health Insurance

Rewards & Recognitions

Learning & Development

Descripción de la vacante

Dubizzle Labs in Pakistan is expanding its engineering team to strengthen the backend stack for hyper-growth across 10 countries. You will own end-to-end development, mentoring peers, and driving reliable, high-performance systems.

We value deep technical leadership, hands-on coding, and a passion for building world-class REST APIs with SOA awareness. A fast-paced, multicultural environment awaits with strong learning and development opportunities.

Formación

• 8+ years of professional back-end software engineering experience; Python preferred.
• Experience with Cloud hosted infrastructure and Technologies; AWS preferred.
• Prior experience with Kubernetes & Docker will earn you brownie points.
• Experience working on high-traffic and large-scale web products is preferred.
• Experience with web infrastructure, SOA, distributed systems, performance analysis, search infrastructure.
• Been on at least one “death march” and know exactly why some things are to be avoided.
• Strong understanding of design patterns including asynchronous programming, queuing, logging, security and persistence.
• Mastery of different caching layers and strategies including memcached.
• Good understanding of build process management and continuous integration.
• Mastery of testing methodologies (unit tests, component tests, integration tests, etc.).

Responsabilidades

• Hit the ground running - Understand the codebase and tech stack within weeks.
• Lead planning sessions around new features and release strategies.
• Research and apply industry trends as part of daily work.
• Create unit tests to cover assigned work.
• Write and maintain exemplary code following practices.
• Contribute in post-release maintenance issues.
• Develop elegant solutions for complex problems.
• Pioneer reliability and efficiency of our codebase, platforms and systems.
• Impact on the direction and scope of our technical vision.
• Mentor peers in a peer-programming environment.
• Code review major pull requests, define standards and provide feedback.
• Design and delivery of 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.

Conocimientos

Python

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Distributed systems

SOA

Performance analysis

Caching (Memcached)

CI/CD

Unit/integration tests

REST APIs

Code reviews

Herramientas

Docker

Kubernetes

Descripción del empleo

At Dubizzle Labs, we are looking to further expand our Pakistan office of already 400+. We are most interested in bringing on board colleagues who love to learn, perform, and teach. We are building a high-quality engineering environment with a super focus on delivering value to customers. Your primary responsibility would be to build world-class suite products to support the hyper-growth of our businesses in 10 countries.

Are you a people person and genuinely enjoy helping others grow? Are you a thought leader? Can you solve any task thrown at you, irrespective of complexity or scale? Do you mentor and lead those in your team and push the boundaries of perfection? Do you know which corners can and can't be cut? Can you balance technical ambitions with business objectives?

• Hit the ground running - Gather up-to-date and in-depth understanding of the dubizzle code base and technologies stack within weeks;
• Lead planning sessions around new product features, deliver detailed roll-out/roll-back strategies for releases.
• Research and apply industry trends as part of your daily work;
• Create unit tests in accordance with our established standards to cover assigned work;
• Write and maintain exemplary code following dubizzle’s programming practices;
• Actively contribute in post-release maintenance issues;
• Develop elegant solutions for complex problems;
• Pioneer reliability and efficiency of our current code base, platforms and/or core systems;
• Impact on the direction and scope of dubizzle’s technical vision within your stream;
• Work in a mentoring capacity within a peer-programming environment and provide guidance on tasks, irrespective of complexity or scale;
• Code review all major pull requests, defining programming standards and providing constructive feedback.
• Design and delivery of multiple REST based APIs and previous exposure to Service Oriented Architecture;
• 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;

• 8+ years of professional back-end software engineering experience; Python preferred;
• Experience with Cloud hosted infrastructure and Technologies; AWS preferred;
• Prior experience with Kubernetes & Docker will earn you brownie points;
• Experience working on high-traffic and large-scale web products is preferred;
• Experience with web infrastructure, SOA, distributed systems, performance analysis, search infrastructure;
• Been on at least one “death march” and know exactly why some things are to be avoided;
• Strong understanding of design patterns including asynchronous programming, queuing, logging, security and persistence;
• Mastery of different caching layers and strategies including memcached;
• Good understanding of build process management and continuous integration;
• Mastery of testing methodologies (unit tests, component tests, integration tests, etc.);

• A fast paced, high performing team.
• Multicultural environment with over 50 different nationalities
• Comprehensive Health Insurance
• Rewards & Recognitions
• Learning & Development

Dubizzle Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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