Principal Software Engineer - Backend

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

Job summary

Dubizzle Labs in Karachi is expanding its Pakistan office to leverage an 400+ team and deliver world-class suite products for hyper-growth across 10 countries. You will drive backend engineering, plan features, and shape technical decisions while mentoring peers.

We seek an expert with 8+ years in backend development, strong Python, AWS, and distributed systems experience. You will work on scalable REST APIs, apply modern testing, and contribute to a high-performance, reliable platform.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Hit the ground running - Gather up-to-date and in-depth understanding of the 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 daily work.
• Create unit tests in accordance with established standards to cover assigned work.
• Write and maintain exemplary code following coding 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.
• Impact on the direction and scope of the technical vision within your stream.
• Mentor peers in a peer-programming environment and guide tasks.
• Code review all major pull requests, defining standards and providing feedback.
• Design and delivery of multiple REST based APIs and exposure to Service Oriented Architecture.
• Push back on incomplete requirements when necessary.
• Handle the entire software development life cycle, end to end
• Lead product planning meetings and architect solutions within your stream.

Skills

Python

AWS

REST APIs

SOA

Distributed systems

Asynchronous programming

Caching

Testing methodologies

Code reviews

Mentoring

Education

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

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.

Responsibilities:

• 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;

Requirements:

• 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.);