Senior Backend Architect — Python, AWS, Lead & Mentor

Bayut; Karachi Division; On-site; PKR 4,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Health Insurance

Rewards & Recognitions

Learning & Development

Job summary

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.

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.
• 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.).

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Python

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Distributed systems

SOA

Performance analysis

Caching (Memcached)

CI/CD

Unit/integration tests

REST APIs

Code reviews

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

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.